The crescent moon, with or without an additional star or stars, has since become the accepted official symbol of Islam.
This cross has since become the official symbol of the church, and still stands on the pulpit.
"It's like a watchdog," Mr. Filipkowski said of the network and its official symbol: an unblinking eye.
The official symbol of the Florida Gators seems at first glance to have a disqualifying ferocity, but something about its total effect just seems drugged.
The official symbol of the Perl language and community is a coin-shaped logo of a camel head, bearing the text "Programming Republic of Perl".
Mahmoud campaigned in a Mercedes 200 sedan whose back window was decorated with his official symbol, a military cannon, along with the slogan "Your Hand in My Hand . . .
The title is a play on Marianne, the official symbol of the French republic depicted in Delacroix's 1830 "Liberty Leading the People," and Mariama, a popular Senegalese name.
A century later, it inspired the name of the elite Skull and Bones society at Yale University, and was adopted as an official symbol to identify poisonous substances in the United States.
Nikos Michaloliakos, the party's founder and leader, insists his is not a neo-Nazi group, despite a swastika-like official symbol and the Nazi-style salute from party members when he appears on a podium.
For the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Mr. Runyan was given what he considered the chance of a lifetime, the opportunity to compete for the commission to design the official symbol.
Profile Worcester is known as the Heart of the Commonwealth, making the heart its official symbol.
