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- From: pdudey@willamette.edu (Peter Dudey)
- Subject: Re: Peace Symbol
- Message-ID: <C1LMEF.KHG@willamette.edu>
- Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
- References: <1k8o55INN4vd@zikzak.apana.org.au> <C1L1Lx.CpE@news.udel.edu> <TNGXBKSX@cc.swarthmore.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 04:42:15 GMT
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- In article <TNGXBKSX@cc.swarthmore.edu> ahankin1@cc.swarthmore.edu (A. Luke Hankins) writes:
- >
- >sorry, i'm sure that this will come as great shock and disappointment to
- >all, but the "peace" symbol is actually simply a "nuclear disarmament"
- >symbol, with the design coming from the semaphore:
- >
- > | |
- > /\("N") + | ("D") = /|\
- >
-
- And the circle for "total" or "complete". I believe this symbol in known
- in Britain as a CND symbol--complete nuclear disarmament.
-
- What the hell does this have to do with either of these groups, unless
- somebody wants to run R.A.W.'s Atlantean origin theory...
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