Sunday 18 September 2011

A Symbol For Europe?

From the European Commission's Economic and Financial Affairs website regarding the Euro symbol (my emphasis):
Inspiration for the € symbol itself came from the Greek epsilon (Є) – a reference to the cradle of European civilisation – and the first letter of the word Europe, crossed by two parallel lines to ‘certify’ the stability of the euro.
Marvellous.

3 comments:

  1. I'd give almost anything to see the history books a hundred years from now.

    Imagine reading about all this? I'd love to know how it will be remembered.

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  2. "Blogger Sue said...

    I'd give almost anything to see the history books a hundred years from now.

    Imagine reading about all this? I'd love to know how it will be remembered."

    In a hundred years hence, all people here [Europe] will have to concern themselves with, is learning Arabic.
    Arabic, to enable reading and to memorise the verses of the Koran and the Hadith, there will be no such thing as 'European history'.

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  3. @Sue, Me too. Hopefully the history books will be called; "How the hell were they so stupid?"

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