On December 14, 1992, the Army Chief of Chaplains requested that an insignia be created for future Muslim chaplains, and the design a crescent was completed January 8, 1993 | "The origin of the symbols of the planets" |
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Florence, Italy: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza Institute and Museum of the History of Science | , Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms 1996 , p |
The new Moon at sunset and the old Moon at sunrise, when observed with horns pointing upward, is also known as "wet moon" in English, in an expression loaned from Hawaiian culture | "the three celestial emblems, the sun disk of Shamash Utu to the Sumerians , the crescent of Sin Nanna , and the star of Ishtar Inanna to the Sumerians " |
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Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry 1909 , p | Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidah, Gertrude Caton Thompson, p |
Neugebauer, Otto; Van Hoesen, H.