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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/21/2007; 235 words
; ... surrounded by bundled sticks? Yup. It's a fasces - a Roman symbol of power and authority ... stronger 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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Chix nix bundle-o-stix: a feminist critique of the disaggregation of property.
Michigan Law Review; 11/1/1994; Schroeder, Jeanne L.; 39706 words
; ... Dialectics of Contract, 10 Cardozo L. Rev. 1199,1220-21 (1989); see also Schroeder, The Vestal and the Fasces, supra note 12; Schroeder, Virgin Territory, supra note 5. (25). Avineri, supra note 22, at 89 ... A User's Manual, 10 Cardozo L. Rev. 1735,1741 (1989). (27). See Schroeder, The Vestal and the Fasces, ...
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Rocky Mountain News; 3/21/2007; 231 words
; ... surrounded by bundled sticks? Yup. It's a fasces - a Roman symbol of power and authority ... stronger 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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Forgotten Lincoln in District; Judiciary Square statue was first to honor leader.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
The Washington Times; 10/7/2006; 859 words
; ... hand rested on a cylindrical bundle of rods called a fasces. The fasces was a symbol of the ancient Roman Republic, before ... pre-Franklin D. Roosevelt dime had one on the back. The fasces is no longer used today, however. In 1922, when Mussolini ...
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Bar Code
Poetry; 12/1/2007; Magrelli, Valerio; 94 words
; ... fluttering over the kingdom of commodities the encoded soul of price rose of the name and name of the rose, bundle of stems, fasces of tendons and veins wrist on which to auscultate the pulse of money. Translated by Jamie McKendrick [Author Affiliation] VALERIO ...
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The popularity of gavels has begun to unravel.
The Boston Herald; 7/12/1998; Michel, Roger Teitell, Beth; 445 words
; ... were 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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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1925:Fascist Strength
International Herald Tribune; 9/16/2000; 99 words
; ... declares 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 at its disposal ...
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THE RED PENCIL
The Washington Post; 10/15/1999; Chris Redgate; 107 words
; ... American as the almighty dollar. If you have a dime on you with what some call Mercury's head on the front, then you'll find the fasces symbol (bundle and ax) on the back. If your dime is clean, it may be worth as much as $6,000. The U.S. Mint stopped making them ...
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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 5/1/2000; Anderson, Brian C.; 1776 words
; ... captures the remarkable hubris of fascism, its frightening impulse to rule over every dimension of life (the word is from the Latin fasces, the bundle of rods sporting an axe-head that symbolized the unchallenged state authority of Rome). In varying degrees, that ...
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Word of the week: Fascism
Scotland on Sunday; 4/28/2002; 201 words
; ... political party formed by Benito Mussolini, which held power from 1922 to 1943. The Italian Fascists took as their emblem the 'fasces', a bundle of rods bound around an axe, which in ancient Roman times was carried before a magistrate as a symbol of his power ...
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