Famous symbols

• The entire point of using a symbol is that it conveys meaning and saves space -- you see one picture of a stick figure in a dress and you no longer need the phrase This is the place where female humans can discharge waste.
(Huffington Post)
• Customers are increasingly using symbols as well as names on the stethoscope when opting for the laser engraving service.
(Laser Personalization with Symbols. - YAHOO!)
• Relatives stressed that the man whose name was synonymous with police brutality also made a famous plea for peace and say to them that we thank you for letting Rodney be the symbol that he ended up having to be.
(Los Angeles Times)
• And the famous Patriote, with his tuque and rifle, would not be a Quebec nationalist symbol. Thomas Nast (1840-1902), a German-born American illustrator, was the first to depict Santa as a fat and jolly patriarch in an 1863 drawing for Harper's Weekly magazine.
(montrealgazette.com)
• In 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe snapped a photograph of the earth. Made famous as a symbol of our common humanity and of a fragile planet, the image came to be known as the Pale Blue Dot. The dot was blue, of course, because its surface is wholly water.
(Atlantic Online)
• To the international community, the Jenin area, a former militant stronghold, had become a symbol of Abbas ability to assert Among the high-profile detainees is Zakarya Zubeidi, the most famous gunman in the Jenin camp.
(USA Today)
• She is Cepko Culd, Japanese gamings newest sex symbol. Thats why Nintendo rolled out a campaign Nintendo typically uses famous celebrities to promote its games.
(Kotaku.com)
• Five giant rings were lowered off London's Tower Bridge over the River Thames Wednesday, bringing the famous Olympic symbol to one of the city's most recognizable landmarks to mark exactly a month to go to the start of the 2012 games.
(msnbc.com)