Is it a symbol of peace?
I went online for a while to scrape up more on what Rock Mike said. I don’t scare easily but this scares me. The R’a Mentep cult existed in Egypt for another 1,600 years. They held the people in terror. Threats of poison used on the children of anyone who didn’t knuckle under kept everyone in line. One of their favorite poisons was a mixture of ergot mold, scorpion and asp venom. They sprayed the poison on anyone they felt like torturing. If you didn’t wash it off within half a minute, the next few days would see you in nightmare convulsions, swollen to where your skin would split, and die within a week . . . of dehydration. Anyone who tried to end the pain of a R’a Mentep victim got the poison next! R’a Mentep controlled Egypt through Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy until the Romans came in AD 31 after the battle of Actium. 2/3 of the Romans died to R’a Mentep poison. It was the only thing that really terrified them. The Romans tried to hush it up but it still dots burial papyrii. O
Actually, you’re completely wrong and terribly misinformed. What later became an internationally recognized symbol for peace was originally designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement. It was designed and completed on 21 February 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist in Britain for the 4 April march planned by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) from Trafalgar Square, Londonto the Atomic Weapons Research Institute at Aldermaston Christan. The symbol was later adopted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). It was adopted by first the 1960s Anto War Movement, then the counterculture, and finally the popular culture of the time. The peace sign flag first became known in the United States in 1958 whenAlbert Bigelow, a pacifist protester, sailed his small boat outfitted with the CND banner into the vicinity of a nuclear test. The peace sign button was imported into the United States in 1960 by Philip Altbach, a freshman at the Universi
