Some cars earned sinister reputations through history, crime, and authority. From mafia Lincolns and Soviet KGB sedans to ...

“Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They’re not just lines. They’re histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.” ― Roshani Chokshi In an era when ...

You've seen it pretty much every day now for decades, and you've interacted with it just as many times, but have you ever wondered why the power symbol looks the way that it does? There's a joke that ...

When a Russian gymnast sported a “Z” on his chest during a medal ceremony that included a Ukrainian rival in an international competition earlier this month, many onlookers may have had no idea what ...

So many of the symbols and icons we use every day are learned without ever knowing the meanings behind them. We just go about our days, pressing and clicking on buttons, without a second thought — and ...

I remember a student in my ethics class saying this as we were talking about the importance of symbols in knowing anything. I then joked that if she believed symbols were not important, she should ...

Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the time of Sargon II. For roughly two centuries, from ca. 900 -- 700 BC, the Near Eastern empires of Neo-Assyria and Urartu ...