File:Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers-filled.svg

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Description Three crescents interlaced so as to be incomplete Borromean rings. This was the emblem of Diana of Poitiers and her lover Henry II of France ([1] etc), and is used with various symbolic significance (see File:Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers.svg etc). Version with solid filled crescents.
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current03:00, 5 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 03:00, 5 December 2011682 × 600 (5 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)reversing colors of other SVG
03:52, 1 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 03:52, 1 December 2011668 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)Three crescents interlaced so as to be incomplete Borromean rings. This was the emblem of Diana of Poitiers and her lover Henry II of France ([http://www.liv.ac.uk/~spmr02/rings/moons.html] etc), and is used with various symbolic significance (see [[:File

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