The Shadow of the Crescent

The Myth of the Shia Crescent

The crescent is the Akizuki crest!

The Crescent has cast a seemingly interminable shadow across the length of Pakistan.

With the sighting of the crescent moon on the evening of June 6, Ramadan has officially begun in Sri Lanka.

He is a member of the Allegiance Council.

Photo International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, CC BY NC ND.

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

Oromo months (stars lunar phases) are Bittottessa (Iangulum), Camsa (Pleiades), Bufa (Aldebarran), Waxabajjii (Belletrix), Obora Gudda (Central Orion Saiph), Obora Dikka (Sirius), Birra (full moon), Cikawa (gibbous moon), Sadasaa (quarter moon), Abrasa (large crescent), Ammaji (medium crescent) and Gurrandala (small crescent).

Shaped like a rectangle.

A book titled Players or Spectators at the International Arena, ALHILAL Publishing House, Cairo, 2003.

Moreover, regional geopolitics pits the powerful Sunni Crescent, led by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, against the beleaguered Shia Crescent states Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

A ministerial form of government

Rectangular Selection

Circular Selection

Slits for mouths?

Fall in. Column of twos.

Circle in.

Take Iraq, where the looming Shia crescent is often blamed for much of the chaos.

If the Fertile Crescent is not to become a futile crescent, we must wake up and find the moral courage and political vision for a quantum leap in Palestine.

Palestinian blogger Haitham Sabbah announces the winners of the Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Awards.

A Ramadan Crescent dripping blood alongside a full moon made of the names of Syrian towns.

Today's logo is a kite shaped double lozenge bordered in gold.

And you can arrange these things as kind of more for encampments and more of a city grid type layout, or you can circle the wagons, essentially, and form these circular pods out of them, which give you this semi private communal area for people to actually spill out into so they're not actually trapped inside these units.

She started with creating soil and seeds molded in the form of modaks, or sweet dumplings for the Ganesh festival.

It was in the form of a tontine.

Sausage casings

Each country's a bubble.

So I did that just so I get this in the form of the

That's also in an aqueous solution.

It becomes kite shaped.

It's like a dinner date, only you eat afterwards.

And as the feces began to freeze, he shaped it into the form of a blade.

So let's put this back into kind of the pie analogy.

Figuring on somebody kicking over around here? Is that it?

In 1486, Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) conquered the city of Kazan which had been under the rule of Moslem Tatars, and in remembrance of this, he decreed that from henceforth the Islamic crescent be placed at the bottom of the Crosses to signify the victory of the Cross (Christianity) over the Crescent (Islam).

He is a Red Crescent volunteer who was arrested in Syria and is reportedly being subjected to 'monstrous torture.'

(i) any humanitarian mission of a national Red Cross or Red Crescent Society or of their International Federation

Evolution of State budgetary allocations for social services

And that crescent there is the moon Enceladus, which is about as big as the British Isles.

It instructed the Committee of the Red Crescent in Kuwait to provide assistance of various kinds to the peoples affected.

And they want to half of it in cash and half of it as a checking deposit account.