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Heraldry In The Movies
Well, in a movie, anyway.To be truthful, in a movie that's going to be released almost a year from now, on November 18, 2016.The movie, a Harry Potter prequel, set in New York, entitled Fantastic...
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More Heraldry from the Harry Potter Movies
"Crests, flags and coats of arms possess a kind of power."Thus opens a website which brings to us some of the heraldry which can be found in the Harry Potter books and movies.For example, the "coat of...
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More Movie Heraldry: Star Wars
Well, as long as I'm still on a roll with heraldry from the movies, and since we're still undergoing the phenomenon that is Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, I found a couple of articles...
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Something Heraldic to "Ring" in the New Year
It's always interesting to see the different ways in which people use (and sometimes misuse) heraldry.Recently on Facebook I ran across this:"What is it?" you ask. Why, it's a Barris Custom guitar by...
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A Colonial American Hatchment
Hatchments, a specific type of heraldic display following the death of someone, though they can be found on display in many churches in Europe, are truly not all that common. In the land that is now...
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A New Website with Articles on Heraldry
Heraldry enthusiast, President for thirteen years of Norsk Heraldisk Forening, and friend Hans Cappelen of Oslo, Norway, has created a new website on which his is uploading his articles about heraldry...
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An Interesting Old Spanish Armorial Digitized
There are times that I just love living in this day and age!"Why is that," you ask? Well, because with today's technology, and the willingness of increasing numbers of libraries and archives from all...
View ArticleHeraldry of the Decadence, Part 1
"The Decadence?" I hear some of you ask? The entry for "Heraldry" in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica puts it this way:Like all other human creations, heraldic art has reflected the changes of fashion. As...
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Or maybe this could be subtitled, "Ministry of Silly Blazons" or some other such Monty Python-esque title.Anyway, having done planets and gemstones as alternatives to the usual names of the tinctures...
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Another Interesting Digitized Armorial
I ran across another armorial which has been scanned and uploaded on-line the other day. This one struck me particularly because it is actually a little less about the heraldry and a little more about...
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Continuing with our presentation of some of the various blazoning schemes which have been invented over the years, we continue with the following selection:Metals:Or GoldArgent...
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Coming to the conclusion of our review of some of the alternate blazon schemes suggested at times by different heraldic authors, we present you with not one, not two, not three, but four different...
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Agent Double-O-Who?
I was only behind him for a few seconds before the stop light turned green, so I didn't have enough time to pull out my cellphone and take a photograph, but the roundel with the coat of arms on it on...
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Heradry Workshop This Weekend
If you are going to be in the vicinity of New Westminster, British Columbia (a suburb of Vancouver) this weekend, you might sign up for and attend one of two heraldry workshops being hosted by local...
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Speaking of Heraldry on Cars
The CIA seal and arms that I spoke of in my post a week ago reminded me of a photograph I'd run across recently of the 1955 Lincoln Futura automobile.While the car is the central object of the...
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And Speaking of Batman
It's been said that: "You should always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then you should always be Batman."Anyway, since I can't be the Batman ....After the discussion in my last post about the...
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I Swear ...
... people will put just about anything on a shield shape and believe that somehow that makes it "heraldry."I ran across this on one of the daily tee shirt websites late last week:Yeah, it's on a...
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Fun With Heraldry
I ran across a post last week (February 10, 2016) over on The Brothers Brick, a blog about all the wild and wonderful stuff people build using LEGOs. This particular post had an heraldic theme; one of...
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I Swear, Part Two
Well, they did another one.The non-coat of arms that I spoke of in my post before last was based on Tim Burton's animated movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas.This one is based on his movie...
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And ... They've Done Another One
Apparently, this tee shirt crew is going through all of Tim Burton's movies and creating arms-like logos for them.The most recent one is for his 1999 Sleepy Hollow.It's still not heraldry, but it's...
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