The Flash and Circle is the best known symbol of the British Union of Fascists. It was chosen to represent "action within unity". Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ...
It was the BUF's second symbol. At first, briefly, the BUF had used the fasces of Mussolini's fascists. A statue of Cincinnatus resigning from dictatorship by returning the Roman fasces Fasces (the plural, almost a plurale tantum, of the Latin word fascis, bundle) symbolise summary power and jurisdiction. ... Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...
The lightning bolt within a circle was adopted as the symbol of the American National Renaissance Party, superseding Madole's initial use of the swastika. It decorated their rostrum and was worn on their armbands. National Renaissance Party was an American neo-fascist group lead by James Hartung Madole. ... James Hartung Madole (July 7, 1927-May 6, 1979) was the leader of the National Renaissance Party in the United States. ... The swastika (å) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles either clockwise or anticlockwise. ... A rostrum (Latin beak) is an anatomical structure resembling a birds beak, such as part of the carapace of a crustacean. ... Armbands are strips of cloth or other distinctive material that are wrapped around the upper arm. ...
The 'Circle and Flash' symbol is also the insignia of the Singapore 'People's Action Party' (PAP). It has the same colour scheme, however unlike the BUF symbol the PAP's insignia is composed of a red flash struck through a smaller blue circle on a white background. The PAP insignia like the BUF symbol represents 'Action within social/racial unity' however the white background represents purity in thought and deed. Party logo with a symbol of red lightning that signifies action. ...
External links
Party of Europe (see "Symbol of the Movement" at the bottom of the page)
100 Questions Asked and Answered (see "What does the Flash and Circle mean?")
THE PARTY LOGO - Our Badge, Our Pride on the website of the People's Action Party
The Flash and Circle is the best known symbol of the British Union of Fascists.
The lightning bolt within a circle was adopted as the symbol of the American National Renaissance Party, superseding Madole's initial use of the swastika.
The 'Circle and Flash' symbol is also the insignia of the Singapore 'People's Action Party' (PAP).
Although the tone of the university, especially that of the students, was pronouncedly, even enthusiastically, humanistic, and although Erfurt led the movement in Germany, and in its theological tendencies was supposedly "modern", nevertheless "it nowise showed a depreciation of the currently prevailing [Scholastic] system" (ibid.).
According to it, while Luther was in the act of climbimg the stairs on his knees, the thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "The just shall live by faith", whereupon he immediately discontinued his pious devotion.
Tetzel's Theses -- for he assumed all responsibility -- opposed to Luther's innovations the traditional teaching of the church; but it must be admitted that they at times gave an uncompromising, even dogmatic, sanction to mere theological opinions, that were hardly consonant with the most accurate scholarship.
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