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From: dickeney@access4.digex.net (Dick Eney)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Origins, history and meanings behind the peace sign???
Date: 7 Apr 1996 13:46:12 -0400
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In article <31674D6D.366A@bendnet.com>,
Chris Hartley  <Chris_Hartley@bendnet.com> wrote:
>I don't know for a fact that this is the origin of the peace sign, but 
>the interior of it is the same as the Norse Rune "Algiz" which Ralph 
>Blum describes in his book "The Book of Runes" as representing 
>Protection. Surely a link could be drawn between the concepts of 
>protection, safety and peace?  Like I said, no cold, hard facts, but 
>maybe a starting place, idea? :)

Heuristic coincidence.  The Peace Sign was made by combining the semaphore 
positions for N and D, standing for Nuclear Disarmament, which was the hot 
topic at the time (anyone else remember the Cold War?).

-- Tamar Lindsay (sharing account dickeney@access.digex.net)