Did you know that…the peace sign (symbol) was designed and first used in the United Kingdom in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; the internationally recognized symbol for peace was originally designed in 1958 for the British nuclear disarmament movement by Gerald Holtom and became a major symbol of the 1960s counterculture. In the United States and Canada, it became synonymous with opposition to the Vietnam War. Interestingly, it was derived through a combination of the semaphore signals (think of the flags you see in classic movies when one ship is communicating with another) for the letters N and D, standing for nuclear disarmament. In semaphore the letter N is formed by a person holding two flags in an inverted V, and the letter D is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. If you superimpose these two signs forms the shape of the center of the peace symbol.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 23:22:18 +0000
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