Each year, the Seattle Rose Society showcases the region’s best blooms. At Factoria Mall a few weeks ago, judges gently ...

For years, the law firm Heller Ehrman LLP used a goofy coat of arms inside its offices: a laurel wreath, the scales of justice and a Latin quotation, elvem ipsum etiam vivere. Rough translation: Elvis ...

“It was probably the most superb and certainly the most moving one that anybody now living has seen,” Mollie Panter-Downes reported from London, in 1953.

The function of the Royal coat of arms is to identify the person who is Head of State. In respect of the United Kingdom, the Royal arms are borne only by the Sovereign. The arms are used in the ...

But Laurel Downes is out the door by 4.15am, downing a pre-workout combo of caffeine and fat burners in the car. She’s ready for her gruelling morning session at the gym known as “the mecca ...

Beneath Woolsey’s vaulted ceiling on Sunday, Yale community members joined with delegates from universities around the world to witness the ceremonial presentation of the role and responsibilities to ...

Though heraldry emerged in the Middle Ages, new arms are still granted to institutions and notable people. When he was knighted, The Beatles’ producer, George Martin, chose a blue coat of arms, with a ...

Heraldry originated in the Middle Ages, when coats of arms had become necessary “as a distinctive sign for knights, who had become unrecognisable under their armour”, notes the Historical ...

Features of the Coat of Arms are: A blue shield with five silver stars arranged to represent the Southern Cross. A kangaroo holding a gold Imperial Crown with silver and blue ribbons at its base.

On May 1, Laurel Baker sat down with Rose Gottemoeller, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, chief US negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), and accomplished lecturer. ...

You can find the bee on everything from street art to bins, tattoo sleeves to the engravings on historic city centre buildings. But if you look a little bit harder, you’ll see that there is more to ...