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fas·ces
/ ˈfasˌēz/
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pl. n. hist.
(in ancient Rome) a bundle of rods with a projecting ax blade, as a symbol of a magistrate's power.
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(in Fascist Italy) such items used as emblems of authority.
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Roman Republicans, fasces and festivals: the French occupation of Rome, 1798-99, from the archives of the Museo Napoleonico.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The French Revolution had a profound effect on architecture in late eighteenth-century France. (1) Even before the Revolution, the Academie Royale d'Architecture in Paris had been a scene of dissent. The choice of the Grand Prix winner at the Academie d'Architecture and the bureaucracy surrounding
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Forgotten Lincoln in District; Judiciary Square statue was first to honor leader.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/7/2006; 700+ words
; ...hand rested on a cylindrical bundle of rods called a fasces. The fasces was a symbol of the ancient Roman Republic, before...Franklin D. Roosevelt dime had one on the back. The fasces is no longer used today, however. In 1922, when...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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Extra!(News)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/21/2007; 509 words
; ...surrounded by bundled sticks? Yup. It's a fasces - a Roman symbol of power and authority...together than their parts alone. The fasces also is thought by some to be symbolic...symbolic of executing evil-doers. And if fasces sounds like a modern word, it is: Italian...
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Russia remembers World War II.(Ronald Reagan Center for International Trade, Washington)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 9/21/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...scoff at them for a moment, as does a metal model of the fasces knocked on its side and lying near the swastika-studded baton that belonged to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. (The fasces is the bundle of rods with a projecting ax blade that Italian...
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Famous sculptures dot city landscape
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 3/29/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...military is depicted by the placement of Washington's right hand on a cane and his left hand on a fasces, against which a sword hangs. The fasces, made of 13 rods symbolizing the 13 states, rests on a plowshare -- the agricultural foundation...
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The popularity of gavels has begun to unravel.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 7/12/1998; ; 670 words
; ...modeled on classical emblems of legal authority, such as the Roman fasces. Consisting of a bundle of rods (meant to resemble scrolls) strapped to a long-handled ax, the fasces - like the mace staff and gavel - are intended to portray the power...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Sins and the Roman city; The historical adviser of next week's new bloodthirsty TV drama offers an A-Z of the sex, sacrifice and torture of everyday life in ancient Rome.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 10/28/2005; 700+ words
; ...the Capitoline, the Quirinal and the Viminal. Handy for the final round of Who wants to be a Millionaire? F for FASCES The fasces were a bunch of bound wooden sticks carried by men called lictors who escorted important politicians in public...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1925:Fascist Strength
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/16/2000; 204 words
; ...that Fascism has never been stronger than it is now. He recounts that there are 9,000 ''Fasces'' comprising 700,000 Fascists and 586 ''Fasces'' with 25,000 women members. He concludes by saying that Fascism has a formidable army...
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The Silver Oar and Other Maces of the Admiralty: Admiralty Jurisdiction in America and the British Empire
Magazine article from: Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...symbols of authority long before medieval times such as the FASCES, in which an axe for beheadings was surrounded by a bundle...entitled to be preceded on the streets by attendants carrying the fasces, just as the Admiralty Marshal with the Silver Oar precedes...
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The artist, the historian, and the USS Constitution
Magazine article from: Naval War College Review; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...representing the Constitution of the United States, together with a fasces representing union and a "battoon" (club) symbolizing willingness...collided with USS President in fluky winds; lost were Hercules, fasces, battoon, and some trailboard. All were replaced the following...
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fasces
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
fasces [Lat.,=bundles], ancient Roman symbol...and later the magisterial authority. The fasces were cylindrical bundles of wooden rods...proconsuls, dictators, and emperors. The fasces, which symbolize unity as well as power...
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Fasces
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
Fasces bundle of twigs, 1598; the birch rod, 1799 — Wilkes. See also .
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Empire and Imperialism: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...or who commanded troops possessed imperium, an authority symbolized by the fasces, which was borne as a sign of authority before the consuls who ruled Rome. The fasces, a band of rods bound around the handle of an ax, symbolized the power to...
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fascism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...g., to National Socialism in Germany and to the regime of Francisco Franco in Spain. The term is derived from the Latin fasces . Characteristics of Fascist Philosophy Fascism, especially in its early stages, is obliged to be antitheoretical and frankly...
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Mussolini, Benito
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...Fascist party, called the Fasci di Combattimento. The name fascism is derived from the Latin fascis , meaning bundle. The fasces is a bundle of rods strapped together around an axe. A symbol of authority in ancient Rome, it represented absolute, unbreakable...
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