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  The Bank Notes of Cape Verde
Cape Verde is a country of ten islands and five islets consisting of an area of some 4,033 square kilometres.
Cape Verde soon became a trading centre and one of the principal commodities was slaves.
The Cape Verde warbler is confined to the islands of Santiago and São Nicolau where, despite its adaptation to artificial habitats, its population is declining as a result of successive droughts and an increasing human population.
www.pjsymes.com.au /articles/CapeVerde.htm   (5090 words)

  
 Cape Verde
Cape Verde comprises ten islands, nine of which are inhabited, and is located 375 miles (600 kilometers) off the coast of Senegal.
The United States Cape Verdean population, concentrated in the New England states, is estimated to be as large as the population in Cape Verde itself.
Cape Verde regained some wealth in the late nineteenth century due to its convenient location on major trade routes between Europe, South America, and Africa and to the opening of a coal and submarine cable station in the port city of Mindelo.
www.everyculture.com /Bo-Co/Cape-Verde.html   (2855 words)

  
 Cape Verde
Cape Verde was uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived in 1456, and the islands were thus made part of the Portuguese empire.
Cape Verde is a small nation that lacks resources and has experienced severe droughts as well as water shortages.
Cape Verde has a large cooperation with Portugal in every level of the economy, leading it to make its currency fixed, through the Portuguese escudo, to the Euro since 1999.
creekin.net /n34-cape-verde.html   (1014 words)

  
 Cape Verde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Prior to 1992, the similarity between the two nations’ flags was explained by the fact that both were derived from the flag of the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (P.A.I.G.C.), the liberation movement which succeeded in gaining independence for both countries (Guinea-Bissau in 1974, Cape Verde in 1975).
The Constitution of the Republic of Cabo Verde (Green Cape Islands), adopted in 1992, difines under its Article 8th the new flag, very different from the previous (wich was similar to the Bissau-Guinea flag, for historical reasons), and said by some to be very “unafrican”.
As on the flag, the stars represent the main islands of Cape Verde; the plumb-bob is symbolic of rectitude and virtue; the torch and triangle represent unity and freedom.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/cv.html   (1173 words)

  
 Cape Verde
The uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century; Cape Verde subsequently became a trading center for African slaves and later an important coaling and resupply stop for whaling and transatlantic shipping.
Following independence in 1975, and a tentative interest in unification with Guinea-Bissau, a one-party system was established and maintained until multi-party elections were held in 1990.
As a result, Cape Verde's expatriate population is greater than its domestic one.
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 Festivities
Cape Verde is comprised of nine populated islands, some separated by wide and windswept stretches of sea, so it should not be surprising that each island shows us a cultural face as beautiful and varied as the geography of the archipelago itself.
The Portuguese found Cape Verde uninhabited during the latter half of the 15th century, and they immediately set about populating it and evangelizing the people they brought there by force.
A bonfire is lit on the eve of the feast to drive away bad spirits and prevent their influence on the land, the source of all wealth for the peasant.
www.umassd.edu /specialprograms/caboverde/cvfestas.html   (2105 words)

  
 Amilcar Cabral
Cape Verdean Connection: Transnational Community was a featured program at the 1995 Festival of American Folklife at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
The interdependence of Cape Verdeans residing in the Islands and in diaspora communities is central to Cape Veredean cultural identity and is written into the country's Constitution.
Cape Verde itself is part of a great continent, from which we are only physically distant: most reliable evidence shows us that Africa is a strong presence in our cultural patrimony.
www.umassd.edu /specialprograms/caboverde/acaddress.html   (2713 words)

  
 Information, science and biology
Before a source of symbols (not a source of information!) generates a symbol, uncertainty exists as to which particular symbol will emerge from the available supply of symbols (for example, an alphabet).
If the individual symbols of a long sequence of symbols are not equally probable (for example, text), what is of interest is the average information content for each symbol in this sequence as well as the average value over the entire language.
In chains of symbols conveying information, the stringing-together of symbols to form words as well as the joining of words to form sentences are subject to specific rules, which, for each language, are based on consciously established conventions.
www.answersingenesis.org /tj/v10/i2/information.asp   (4686 words)

  
 Political flags of Cape Verde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This party arose from the common P.A.I.G.C. party from Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, that had a yellow over green flag with a red stripe at hoist, and from which where derived both the current flag of Guinea-Bissau and the previous flag of Cape Verde.
The symbols of PAICV shall be its emblem and its flag.
M.p.D. A person I met from Cape Verde commented about a flag which is a white ground and a circle in the middle of it; inside of the circle is some kind of leaves going around each other.
www.crwflags.com /FOTW/flags/cv}.html   (375 words)

  
 Cape Verde Flag - World Flags 101 - Cape Verdean Flags
The stripes symbolize the road to the construction of Cape Verde; while the color white represents peace and the color red represents effort.
The Cape Verde flag was adopted on September 22, 1992 when Cape Verde severed its ties with Guinea Bissau, with whom it was supposed to unite with.
The previous flag of Cape Verde was red, yellow and green - very similar to the flag of Guinea Bissau.
www.worldflags101.com /c/cape-verde-flag.aspx   (229 words)

  
 Cape Verde - Visiting Card
Since the origin of their history, the Cape Verdeans have been a largely mestizo: 80 per cent of the population is mestizo, 17 per cent fl and 3 per cent white.
The literacy rate in Cape Verde is about 70 percent, and the demand for primary and secondary education is 85 percent and 48 percent, respectively.
One of Cape Verde's main riches is the sea, due to its very abundant maritime fauna, the underwater platforms and the purity and temperature of the water that varies between 21° to 25°.
www.caboverde.com /ilhas/cve-card.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Political flags of Guinea Bissau
The reason for this is that Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde constituted a short-lived confederacy after independence under the leadership of the PAIGC, a party that had cape-verdian and guinean membership and was winning the war against the portuguese colonial forces in Guinea-Bissau by the time of the portuguese revolution.
The symbolism of this flag is just like that of the national flag and inherited from the symbolism of Ghana, from which it comes: an arrangement of the pan-african colours with the fl star of Africa added.
And the Cape Verde flag was changed mostely because it looked too much like the flag of Guinea-Bissau, not because it looked like the P.A.I.C.V. flag (which in turn was also changed somewhen later).
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/gw}.html   (724 words)

  
 Cape Verde - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Republic of Cape Verde or Cape Verde (Portuguese: Cabo Verde) is a republic located on an archipelago in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa.
Cape Verde has significant cooperation with Portugal at every level of the economy, leading it to fix its currency, firstly through the Portuguese escudo, then the Euro since 1999.
More Cape Verdeans live abroad than in Cape Verde, with significant emigrant Cape Verdean communities in the United States (264,900 Cape Verdians), Portugal (80,000) and Angola (45,000).
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Cape_Verde   (1126 words)

  
 Kapverden
The ten stars stand for the ten islands, the Cape Verde Islands consist in, and the red stripe correlates with the 16th degree of latitude which passes medially through the archipelago, but white stands also for peace and red for readiness of sacrifice.
The introduction of the today's flag implys obviously for the Cape Verde Islands the farewell from the mutual socialistic ideals, which bond together the Cape Verde Islands with Guinea Bissau, just as the farewell from the ideas of the Pan-Africanism, because the Pan-African colours are not in use anymore.
The coat of arms of the Cape Verde Islands, which was adoped on the 5th of July in 1975 on the occasion of the independence, showed a red disk, on it, to the left and on the right, per one corn plant, below a Jakob's Conch.
www.flaggenlexikon.de /fkapverd.htm   (1497 words)

  
 FEAR OF SYMBOLS: Treatment and Hope
To add insult to an already distressing condition, most fear of symbols therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.
The Fear Of Symbols Clinic at The CTRN Phobia Clinic™ is entirely results-focused, so we charge you for the result you want: freedom from fear of symbols - regardless of how long it takes.
1: fear of symbols: a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of symbolism, despite the understanding by the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger.
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 allAfrica.com: Uganda: Nationalities Are the Basis of Any State (Page 1 of 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The first catholic to contend for the presidency way back in the 1920s was sidelined because of his faith and this trend continued until John F. Kennedy overcame the prejudice against his faith in 1960 when he became the first catholic president of that country.
The Americans then sought out national symbols which would bind them as a nation and they found these in their literature, heroes, idols, national days such as fathers' and mothers' days, thanksgiving and others.
The state as opposed to the nation on the other hand is represented by different symbols such as the flag, the national anthem, the presidency and parliament.
allafrica.com /stories/200611210132.html   (957 words)

  
  State Reports 
This law is the result of the hard work of Eighth Grade students at Harris Middle School in Spruce Pine, who researched the economic impact of the Fraser Fir industry on the state, and suggested this species as a new state symbol.
It stands as the symbol of strength and unity, representing the national spirit and patriotism of the people over whom it floats.
In addition to our national flag, each of the states in the Union has a “state flag” which is symbolic of its own individuality and domestic ideals.
www.usstatereports.com /statesymbols.aspx?st=NC   (2439 words)

  
 Cape Verde
The Constitution of the Republic of Cabo Verde (Green Cape Islands), adopted in 1992, defines the new flag, very different from the previous (wich was similar to the Bissau-Guinea flag, for historical reasons), and said by some to be very “unafrican”.
Note that the discription only refers to areas and heights and uses independent horizontal and vertical measurements; that means that no fixed proportions are specified — such a description could aply to a 1:2, 2:3, 1:1 or most other flag formats!
A person I met from Cape Verde commented about a flag which is a white ground and a circle in the middle of it; inside of the circle is some kind of leaves going around each other.
www.fotw.us /flags/cv.html   (799 words)

  
 Caycee on Dreams
Cayce understood that dreams by their nature were either: images depicting messages, symbols, signs or dramatizations from the unconscious; visions of things revealed, or signs and symbols of “spiritual awakening;” or actual inner expereinces recalled on awakening.
What was most difficult for Cayce to come to accept as revealed by his inner consicousness, due to his commitment to his orthodox Christian beliefs, was the knowledge that man’s unconscious memory included memory of more than one life time, and of sojourns on higher heavenly planes between repeated births.
Like Jung Cayce discovered how dreams were often pregnant with universal symbols often of a religions nature, and with universal or archetypal movements such as also revealed in mythology.
home.att.net /~pauloverman/pages/caycee.htm   (865 words)

  
 BBC - Weather Centre - 5 Day Forecast in Celsius for Mindelo, Cape Verde
The weather symbol shown for each day in the five day forecast represents the predominant weather expected on the day in question.
This is calculated based on a weighting of different types of weather, so if a day is forecast to be sunny with the possibility of a brief shower, then we will see a sunny or partly cloudy symbol rather than a rain cloud.
The maximum temperature is the highest temperature forecast between 0600 and 1800, whereas the minimum temperature is the lowest temperature expected from 1800 on the day in question to 0600 the following day.
www.bbc.co.uk /weather/5day.shtml?world=1380   (187 words)

  
 Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free
Here you can record healing session notes and have valuable reference material close at hand including sacred Reiki power symbols, chakra centers, as well as basic anatomy.
The Reiki Journal is not an instruction manual, and there are no hand positions included, rather this journal is designed as supplemental material for anyone who already uses Reiki, whatever level that may be, and it is a nice way to review and see how your sessions improve as you progress in your Reiki degrees.
And their world is a world filled with dinosaurs, unicorns, yeomen, elephantoths, wizards, politicians, dragons, demagogues, orcs, goblins, shamen and anything else you can probably think of, even pirates.
www.lulu.com /browse/search.php?fKeywords=symbols   (741 words)

  
 Image:Flag of Cape Verde.svg - Wikimedia Commons
This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia.
The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries.
These restrictions are independent of the copyright status of the depiction shown here.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Image:Flag_of_Cape_Verde.svg   (150 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Cabo Verde, ToC
Timeline Cape Verde, from BBC News; by Raymond A. Almeida
Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : Cape Verde, from Kirken i Norge
Richard Lobban and Marilyn Halter, Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, Lanham Md. : Scarecrow 1988
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/xcverde.html   (322 words)

  
 Information on Cape Verde, Climate of Cape Verde, World Factbook Cape Verde, Cape Verde Map, Map of Cape Verde
Information on Cape Verde, Climate of Cape Verde, World Factbook Cape Verde, Cape Verde Map, Map of Cape Verde
An archipelago consisting of 15 islands, Cape Verde became an independent nation on July 5, 1975.
Cape Verde islands are located in the Atlantic ocean, due west of the westernmost point of Africa, Cape Verde.
www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/cape-verde.html   (321 words)

  
 CD Baby: NHELA & ADRIANO SANTOS: Formidavel
This record deciphers the role of Morais as a link between generations: a pioneer integrated by the illustrious Bana and Djosinha, friends in different phases, and the authors of this work, Adriano and Nhela Santos, two symbols of the new cohort of musicians who acquired their passion for music from Luis Morais.
He returned to Cape Verde after the Independence in 1975, teaching music in high schools in Mindelo and Praia; for many years he directed the Mindelo Municipal Band and helped form a new generation of musicians.
Luis Moral was a pioneer in the recording industry in Cape Verde, a career initiated on Radio Barlavento at the end the 1950s with Titina, Djosinha and Amândio Cabral, among others, resulting in many singles manufactured in Germany that had been edited by Casa de Leão.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/nasantos   (504 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Symbols, Linkserve, Others Receive Nitta Recognition (Page 1 of 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The NITTA 2006 award for the Best Indigenous Software of the Year category, which is in its 5th edition, was jointly awarded to Symbols and HumanManager from Systemspecs based on the available industry rating and track record of the applications.
In his recitation for Symbols, the host of the event, Dr. Rueben Abati of Guardian Newspapers editorial board, explained that in ownership and in workforce, Progenics has driven Symbols into the very core of Nigeria's finance sector, with the objective of meeting the comprehensive investment management and sock broking activities.
The winning point is that this software solution started with three initial sign-on sites, and during the year under review, it now has over 25 clients, a clear testimony to the robustness of the solution, he said.
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 IAN Symbol Libraries Registration Form - Integration and Application Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Upon submission of this registration form you will receive an automated email containing the link for downloading the IAN Symbol Libraries.
If you have already registered for this, or a previous version of the symbol libraries, please use the Registered Users link.
Tell a friend about the IAN Symbol Libraries (Friend Name, Your Name has sent you this email to tell you about the IAN Symbol Libraries for Adobe Illustrator.\n\nThe IAN symbol libraries contain over 1500 custom made symbols (in 32 categories) designed specifically for enhancing science communication skills.
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 Africa Symbols: A Complete Reference (GeoSymbols)
In fact, it could be difficult to choose national symbols when many African nations are so diverse, embracing multitudes of cultures and languages.
Besides, national symbols (and even the nations they represent) are primarily Western traditions.
For now, Africa’s symbolic glory is its flags, which form a panorama of past nightmares and hope for a better future.
www.geosymbols.org /World/Africa   (885 words)

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