The precise origin of the infinity symbol, , is unclear. One possibility is suggested by the name it is sometimes called—the lemniscate, from the Latin lemniscus, meaning “ribbon”.

John Wallis is usually credited with introducing as a symbol for infinity in 1655 in his De sectionibus conicis. One conjecture about why he chose this symbol is that he derived it from a Roman numeral for 1000 that was in turn derived from the Etruscan numeral for 1000, which looked somewhat like CIƆ and was sometimes used to mean “many.” Another conjecture is that he derived it from the Greek letter ω (omega), the last letter in the Greek alphabet.  Also, before typesetting machines were invented, ∞ was easily made in printing by typesetting an 8 type on its side.

The Egyptian Ouroborus represented both the existence of space adn time encapsulated by the unbounded realm of non-existence. In this regard it represents both wholeness as well as infinity as it forms the figure-eight symbol for infinity, as shown.

September 21 is United Nations International Peace Day. It is the one day that all weapons around the world should fall silent. But what has happened since the previous Peace Day? Has the world become more peaceful?

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Well back to school. Summer was great… dont get me wrong, but I was excited to get back to school. I get to see my friends, and I’m in grade 5 this year…

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

If you like my “peace banner”, my Dad made it for me. Please use it if you like.

Canada Peace, USA Peace and the blue is Me

Whose idea was it? Where did it come from? So I looked it up, and through Wikipedia I found this out… The peace sign button was imported into the United States in 1960 by Philip Altbach, a freshman at the University of Chicago, who traveled to England to meet with British peace groups as a delegate from the Student Peace Union.The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters “N” and “D,” standing for Nuclear Disarmament. In semaphore the letter “N” is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down “V,” and the letter “D” is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down