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  [CTRL] Fwd: Rothschild Coat of Arms
In 1760, the arms of Jacob Franco were registered, "his ancestors having used for their armorial ensigns in a landscape field a fountain thereout issuing a palm tree all proper represented on a marble monument in the synagogue of the Jewish nation in the city of Leghorn (Italy)".
The Rothschilds were asked to submit a coat of arms, which Solomon did: it consisted in quarterly: 1) or an eagle sable surcharged in dexter by a field gules, 2) gules a leopard passant proper, 3) a lion rampant, 4) azure, an arm bearing 5 arrows; in center a shield of gules.
Their coats of arms sometimes contain allusions to their origins: the supporters of lord Swaythling are "soldiers of ancient Judea", the crest of viscount Bearsted is "a dexter arm embowed proper grasping a battle-axe argent, the head charged with two triangles interlaced sable" (i.e., the star of David).
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg110599.html   (3100 words)

  
  University of Waterloo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Waterloo is famous for being the groundbreaking proponent of co-operative education in Canada and currently maintains the largest such program in the world.
The Coat of Arms of the University of Waterloo was granted in 1987.
Representing Waterloo's location in the twin cities of Kitchener-Waterloo, the double-chevron is taken from the coat of arms of Earl Kitchener, and the red lions are taken from the symbol of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, the victor at the Battle of Waterloo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_University_of_Waterloo   (2476 words)

  
 Coats of arm, red coats, carhart coats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Coats of arm The Gyllenhaal Family Tree Project was begun in the summer of 1996 for the purpose of gathering as much information as possible about the history of the.
Coats of Arms of Sweden Coats of Arms of the Soviet Republics Coats of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics Coats, James.
Coat of Arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Coat of Arms of Toronto Coat of arms of Ukraine, Coat of Arms of University of Waterloo.
www.brokerage-account.org /coats/coats_of_arm.html   (1273 words)

  
 About the University of Waterloo | Undergraduate Studies | Electrical and Computer Engineering | University of Waterloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The University of Waterloo, as defined in the University of Waterloo Act, 1972, is governed by a bicameral structure where responsibility for the affairs of the University is assigned to the The Board of Governors while educational policy is established by the The Senate.
The authority of the University of Waterloo is vested in the Chancellor and it is the Chancellor who ultimately admits, at Graduation, those candidates who have fulfilled the requirements for the various degrees awarded by the University of Waterloo.
The one on the left is the current Coat of Arms used in the UW Logo, while the Coat of Arms on the right is the original design still seen, on occasion, around campus.
www.ece.uwaterloo.ca /Undergrad/Academics/UW   (1268 words)

  
 History - Jacomb.com
2 similar coats of arms exist for the name Jacomb, one of which is known to date from the late 1600s.
Arms were the property of an individual, not a family or name group and can only be granted (in England) by the College of Arms in London at a not inconsiderable sum of money.
The individuals to whom these Jacomb arms were granted must have been of a sufficient status to desire arms and be able to afford their aquisition in the first place.
www.jacomb.com /history.htm   (417 words)

  
 Napoleon: Elba abd Waterloo: 1815
In the spring of 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte was forced to abdicate his throne by the allied forces of Europe (England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia) as well as malcontents in France herself (primarily royalists and people who were not royalists but still stood to gain from the reinstatement of the king).
It is recorded that he threw open his coat and shouted to them: "Let him that has the heart, kill his Emperor!" It is also recorded that these soldiers threw down their arms and cried "Vive l'Empereur!" Napoleon then ordered them to form up and they all marched on together.
After the defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon returned to Paris where he at first began to plan further resistance, but he was hostility resisted and the next day, on the 22nd of June he abdicated for a second time.
www.thenagain.info /WebChron/WestEurope/Waterloo.html   (1559 words)

  
 Penn State University Libraries : Special Collections Library : Historical Collections and Labor Archives : Darrah ...
Vignetted portrait of young woman wearing coat, brooch, hat with feather, posed in profile.
Portrait of young man (seated) wearing bow tie, long coat, and young woman (standing) wearing lace collar, ring, ribbon bow in hair, with hand on man's shoulder.
Portrait of man wearing bow tie, long coat, standig by chair, with arms folded.
www.libraries.psu.edu /speccolls/FindingAids/darrahindex/photou.htm   (5753 words)

  
 Jewish Heraldry
Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4: Or, a demi-eagle sable beaked and armed of the field, issuing from the partition line; 2 and 3 Azure, two winged serpents interlaced and affrontes argent; over all an escutcheon: Argent, a vine redorte proper, leaved vert, fruited azure.
Arms: Gules a winged wheel or thereon a stork with its vigilance argent, on a chief azure a sun or rising from a mound vert.
the arms of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal.
www.heraldica.org /topics/national/jewish.htm   (3843 words)

  
 about WLU
Therefore, in matters pertaining to graduate student research and scholarly activity, the university has a responsibility to ensure that students are supervised and examined by faculty who are active in the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge, or in some fields, in the creative application of this knowledge in society.
Waterloo is located 112 km west of Toronto, 104 km northeast of London, 128 km northwest of Niagara Falls, and 66 km northwest of Hamilton.
Waterloo is easily reached by Highways 7, 8 and 86, from Highway 401, which connects Montreal and Windsor and which passes within about 16 km of the Wilfrid Laurier University campus.
www.wlu.ca /gradstudies_archive/cal_0203/theuniv.htm   (1566 words)

  
 Kitchener/Waterloo reaction to Ottawa anti-smoking bylaw
The Council for a Tobacco Free Waterloo Region received $145,000 from the Federal Government and $245,000 from the Provincial Government in 1999 to assist in implementing this by-law.
The Council for a Tobacco Free Waterloo Region assisted the Region in implementing the Region of Waterloo by-law.
Thus armed with this slap to intellectual honesty, the federal government forced cigarette manufacturers to inscribe “passive smoking causes cancer” and “tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in non-smokers” (Health Canada), even though there was no persuasive evidence that it did.
www.forces.org /canada/files/ontbwht1.htm   (2938 words)

  
 Secretariat | University of Waterloo
The President and the Chancellor of the University; the Mayors of the Cities of Waterloo and of Kitchener; and the Chair of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, who are ex officio members.
F. The President, shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the University, and shall have the authority and responsibility for administering the affairs of the University as provided for under Section 29(3) of the Act and shall also act in accordance with policies laid down by the Board.
The banking affairs of the University shall be transacted on behalf of the Board by such persons as the Board may designate by resolution and to the extent therein provided.
www.adm.uwaterloo.ca /infosec/bylaws/bogbylaw1.htm   (2793 words)

  
 WHITHER A  UNIVERSITY PEACE ACADEMY
In Canada, university and college-level PACS courses are estimated at a relatively healthy 80-200,[7] depending on the definition one employs in their categorization.
This, of course, is as distinct from peace study programs in Canadian universities and colleges, which, by any standard, are too few and very far between, numbering as they do a meagre five: Mount Saint Vincent University, University of Toronto, McMaster University, University of Waterloo, and the University of Winnipeg.
Interestingly, at the University of Waterloo, students enrolled in the courses offered (including "in the field" training through undergraduate internships with "a wide variety of peace, justice, and development agencies") through its Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies program may take honours, a general program, or a minor, but not a degree in PACS.
www.peace.ca /universitypeaceacademy.htm   (6889 words)

  
 College of Arms Foundation - Activities
The arms of Basset (Azure a Bend Or in chief a Crescent Argent cousu Gules a Chevron Or) show a red chief on a blue shield, an apparent violation; however, the chief is deemed to be “cousu” (French for “stitched” or “sewn”) onto the shield, which is not an infringement.
Designing a coat of arms is a consultative process in which the grantee most frequently seeks to express aspects of his or her life and work.
The office of Ulster King of Arms and Principal Herald of Ireland was established by King Edward VI of England in 1552 to oversee all aspects of Irish heraldry.
www.coaf.us /activities.html   (13136 words)

  
 University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin
After all, says Johnston, "it's accomplished more in forty years than many universities that have been around ten times that long." So he met for some five hours with the presidential nominating committee, a group he described yesterday as "remarkably civilized and remarkably penetrating", and when the committee made the offer, he said yes.
It follows that he'll be in his element representing the university to government and in the wider world, the Martlet said -- adding that since Johnston is an Ontario boy (born in Sudbury) he'll be "more at home in Ontario than he ever was here in the labyrinth of Québec politics".
The flags at the University Avenue entrance to campus are at half-staff today in memory of Frank Jakobsh, professor of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures, who died Saturday.
www.adm.uwaterloo.ca /bulletin/1998/oct/08th.html   (1722 words)

  
 Q&A: Brian Sinclair | University of Calgary
The university and the city are very important to me—I have strong expectations and strong aspirations for both.
The University of Calgary is hiring world-renowned architects to bring visionary design to major projects in the campus’ $1.5-billion capital expansion.
The university’s new International House residence is being designed by Baird Sampson Neuert of Toronto, an acknowledged leader of green design in Canada, in association with Calgary firm Riddell Kurczaba.
www.ucalgary.ca /news/uofcpublications/oncampus/weekly/oct13-06/sinclair   (1099 words)

  
 WCFCourier.com | The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier Online!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Waterloo maidens Laura Clark and Angela Kohlmeyer sat with their hands clutched as they waited Wednesday night outside the old Whittier School for their tour of the spooky palace to begin.
The ladies clutched onto the coat of the man in front of them the whole way.
As they stood in the entryway to the Jaycees-sponsored haunted house, a blood-red exit sign promised a quick escape from the place before it was too late.
www.wcfcourier.com /articles/1997/10/31/export288.txt   (1168 words)

  
 An Address on the History of the Buildings of the University of North Carolina, by Kemp P. Battle, ...
McCorckle concludes as follows: “The seat of the University was sought for, and the public eye selected Chapel Hill, a lovely situation, in the centre of the State, at a convenient distance from the capitol, in a healthy and fertile neighborhood.
Some gallant young men, who were on the outside, displayed their heroism by catching in their arms the frightened damsels leaping from the windows, but I heard no complaints on either side.
I have their circular of 1802, announcing with sanctimonious gravity that “the interests of the University of North Carolina and of learning and science generally, are concerned in the immediate sale of these tickets.” The highest price was $1,500, and was drawn by Gen. Lawrence Baker, of Gates.
docsouth.unc.edu /unc/battle/battle.xml   (5277 words)

  
 The Middle Ages: Cathedrals
Their arms were blazoned on many a glorious rose or chancel-light, while before the altar lay buried their parents and relatives.
It is something similar to the power exercised over the imagination by a battle-field, an Austerlitz or Waterloo, by the ruins of some great city, Carthage or Antioch or Rome.
To build a large and lovely house of God, and to dwell within the shadow of its graceful spire, was the one common purpose of every community from Sicily to Norway.
www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/midage11.htm   (8005 words)

  
 Penn State University Libraries : Special Collections Library : Historical Collections and Labor Archives : Darrah ...
Portrait of young woman wearing brooch, earrings, arm in arm with man, and bearded man with mustache, wearing bow tie, long coat.
Waterloo, P.Q. Vignetted portrait of young woman wearing brooch, flowers on dress, in hair.
Portrait of girl wearing coat ("snow" on coat) with fur collar, hat with ribbon bow, gloves, hair in long curls.
www.libraries.psu.edu /speccolls/FindingAids/darrahindex/canada.htm   (4981 words)

  
 THE ARMS TRADE - ACTION
Is publishing a report on the effect of the arms trade on employment and will continue to campaign against secrecy in the arms trade.
With the aim of protecting children from armed conflict, UNICEF is trying to establish a global consensus on the concept of ‘children as zones of peace’.
Arming the World: the International Trade in Arms is a teaching pack produced by the Trust for Research and Education on the Arms Trade in collaboration with Oxford Development Education Centre (1993).
www.newint.org /issue261/action.htm   (1688 words)

  
 GARY WILL: Waterloo Tech Digest -- October 2005
To calculate the percentage of Canadian university spinoffs from UW, you would need to divide the number of UW spin-offs (the numerator) by the total number of university spin-offs across Canada (the denominator).
In that report, a university spin-off was defined as a company established to 1) license technology from a university, or 2) fund research at the university, or 3) provide a service previously supplied through the university.
That would suggest that UW accounted for about 4.4% of university spin-offs as of 1999, although you'd have to put a lot of caveats around that number.
www.garywill.com /digest/wtd0510.htm   (3282 words)

  
 The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo, by Sir Edward Creasy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Some detachments of the best armed troops would be required to garrison the city itself, and man the various fortified posts in the territory; so that it is impossible to reckon the fully equipped force that marched from Athens to Marathon, when the news of the Persian landing arrived, at higher than ten thousand men.
The occupation of the Persian arms in other quarters left Miltiades for some years after this in possession of the Chersonese; but it was precarious and interrupted.
To adopt the eloquent expressions of Arnold respecting the check which she gave to the Carthaginian arms, "Syracuse was a breakwater, which God's providence raised up to protect the yet immature strength of Rome." And her triumphant repulse of the great Athenian expedition against her was of even more wide- spread and enduring importance.
www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/readings/tfdbt10.htm   (17036 words)

  
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J Minas served UW variously as dean of arts, vice-president (academic), university computing officer, and chair of the departments of statistics, human relations and counselling studies, and psychology -- oh, and director of operations analysis.
The university's phone switchboard used to be in the lobby of the Physics building.
The university's historian is Dr. Ken McLaughlin of St. Jerome's College, who would no doubt be pleased to hear from anyone with tales of the past, particularly if they are based on first-hand knowledge.
communications.uwaterloo.ca /history/legends   (3517 words)

  
 Ontario (Canada)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The crest, supporters and motto were added to the arms, but not to the flag the 75th anniversary of the creation of the province on 30th July 1980.
The flag used by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (LAO) is derived from the Coat of Arms of the LAO and as far as I am able to assess, it is very close to being a banner of arms.
Note, that the LAO's coat of arms is different from that of the Province itself.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca-on.html   (1255 words)

  
 ontario
COAT OF ARMS: In the center, the provincial shield of arms displays in the upper third the cross of St. George (a red cross on a white background) and in the lower two-thirds three gold maple leaves on a green background.
The University of Toronto, founded in 1827, is the largest university in Canada: with about 40,000 full-time students and a full-time teaching faculty of over 3,100.
After the deregulation, several universities in the province began to market aggressively for American students, enticing them with low tuition rates due to the strength of the US dollar.
cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/ontario.htm   (6283 words)

  
 Imprint: November 02, 2001
Coating zinc with copper creates a cheaper, lighter coin.
These initials commemorate George E. Kruger-Gray, a British artist who, in 1936, was asked by the deputy master of the Royal Mint in London to suggest designs for the first set of truly Canadian coins.
In addition to the maple leaves, Kruger-Gray designed the beaver emblem, originally intended for the dime, but which appears on the nickel, and the Canadian coat of arms on the 50-cent piece.
imprint.uwaterloo.ca /legacy/story.php?f=2&t=398&i=&v=f&story=398&   (519 words)

  
 York University Gazette Online
Several language schools and universities participated in the contests including the University of Waterloo, McMaster University, Queen's University, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto.
Audette, a native of Ottawa, is a graduate of York University's Master of Fine Arts program and received his undergraduate degree in visual art from the University of Quebec in Hull.
York University was full of music and musicians in May when nearly 11,000 participants from across Canada, ranging from ages 12 to 24, took part in MusicFest Canada 2000.
www.yorku.ca /ycom/gazette/past/archive/2000/060700/issue.htm   (6002 words)

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