on ""The Great Seal of The U.S.A  what do the circle of clouds stand for?
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"Glory" is a heraldic term for an emanation of light rays, usually golden colored. The glory is the only symbol found on both sides of the Great Seal. \n\nA glory breaks through a cloud surrounding the constellation of stars over the eagle's head, and a glory surrounds the eye in a triangle at the zenith of an unfinished pyramid. \n\nA natural equivalent would the "crepuscular rays" \nseen when sunlight disperses through high clouds into beams of light. \n\nAccording to the official description of the Great Seal, the glory is supposed to be "breaking through a cloud" over the head of an eagle. Many early illustrations were faithful to this design detail. Above are the first engravings of the Great Seal (published in 1786). \n\nThe government's current version of the Great Seal, however, \nshows the light rays being blocked by the cloud. \n\nThe cloud first appeared in Benjamin Franklin's design for the reverse side of the Great Seal that was suggested by the first committee (1776). \n\n"Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Cloud, \nexpressive of the divine Presence and Command" \n\n"Motto: Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God." \n\nIn the final Great Seal design, a cloud is part of the crest above the eagle. \nAccording to the official description: \n\nA golden glory is "breaking through a cloud" \nand surrounding thirteen stars \nforming a silver Constellation on a blue field.\n\nOn the official U.S. Seal, the rays of light are blocked by the cloud.\n\nToday the symbolic light of Providence \ndoes not shine upon the American Eagle. \n\nNOTE: Although the cloud is usually depicted as several cloud puffs, this symbolic element is referred to in the singular. And the number of cloud puffs is not specified. It is for the artist or engraver to decide.
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I believe you have mistaken the Marine Corps emblem for another, possibly the Presidential seal, which has had some changes.  \nThe original USMC emblem did not have have a banner in its beak, it only consisted of the eagle, globe and foul anchor.  The traditional Marine Corps emblem - eagle, globe and foul anchor - forms the basic device of the Seal. Of these three, the eagle and the foul anchor are the most venerable, dating from 1800 when they first appeared on the Marine uniform button - a button which has remained to this day virtually unchanged from its original form. Influenced strongly by the design of the emblem of the British Royal Marines depicting as their domain the Eastern hemisphere, the U.S. Marines adopted in 1868 as their emblem a globe showing the Western hemisphere. To this was added the spread eagle and foul anchor from the button. Twelve years later the motto, "Semper Fidelis," completed the design.  The scarlet and gold surrounding the emblem are the official Marine Corps colors. These in turn are enclosed by Navy blue and gold signifying the Marine Corps as an integral part of the naval team.\nSemper Fi-
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They mean this\n\n\nEver wonder why the flag is red, white, and blue? While the flag's colors did not have a specific meaning at the time, the colors were significant for the Great Seal of 1782. \n\nWhite: Signifies purity and innocence \nRed: Signifies valor and bravery \nBlue: Signifies Vigilance, perseverance, and justice \nWhy stars and stripes? Stars are considered a symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun.\n\n\n\n\nOne another thought is that\n\n\n"The colors of the pales (the vertical stripes) are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & velour, and Blue, the color of the Chief (the broad band above the stripes) signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice
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In 1962, Republic Steel of Cleveland approached the Steelers and suggested that they consider the Steelmark, the insignia used by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), as a helmet logo to honor Pittsburgh's steel heritage. The Steelmark logo, a circle enclosing three hypocycloids (diamonds with inward-curving edges) and the word STEEL, was created by U.S. Steel Corp. (now known as USX Corp.) to educate consumers about the importance of steel in their daily lives. [blockquote]The colors were chosen to promote the attributes for steel: yellow lightens your work; orange brightens your leisure; and blue widens your world. The logo's meaning was later amended to represent the three materials used to produce steel: yellow for coal; orange for iron ore; and blue for steel scrap.[/blockquote
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It stands for the 5 principal continents. America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa. The five colors are also significative. At least one of the five is in every flag of the world.
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The eagle clutches the motto "E Pluribus Unum", ("Out of Many, One"), in its beak\n\nThe main figure on the obverse, (or front), of the Seal is a Bald Eagle with its wings outstretched (or "displayed", in heraldic terms). From the eagle's perspective, it holds a bundle of thirteen arrows in its left talon, (referring to the Thirteen Colonies), and an olive branch, (having thirteen leaves and thirteen olives), in its right talon, symbolic respectively of war and peace, (see: Olive Branch Petition). The eagle has its head turned towards the olive branch, symbolizing a preference for peace. The eagle clutches the motto "E Pluribus Unum", ("Out of Many, One"), in its beak; over its head there appears a "glory" with thirteen stars on a blue field. The thirteen stars above the eagle form a Star of David.
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For a government or people, they have what they believe is the god given right, or an imperialistic duty, to expand as necessary and claim land and/or to spread democracy and freedom.  Its a term used by the United States toward the United States and was coined around the 19th century by John O' Sullivan.  It wasn't necessarily a policy as it was generally agreed upon idea.  It was used towards the notion that the Anglo-Saxon race was superior and had a duty to expand its control and population from the Eastern sea border to the Wester.  \n\nIf you look at the song, America the Beautifu, it includes the line '...and crown thy good with brotherhood, FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA'  The 'from sea to shining sea' is in reference to manifest destiny.  Taking control of the continent from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean.
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This depends on how the line is going across. If the line is horizontal and divides the circle in half, then the symbol is a 'theta', which usually stands for an angle. If it is from lower left to upper right and extends beyond the circle both ways, then it could be the symbol for the empty set or (in some books) zero. If it is close to vertical and extends beyond the circle in both ways, then it is a 'phi' and again usually represents an angle.
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The Seal of Saturn is a magical symbol representing the Intelligence of the planet Saturn. \n\nThe magical tradition of using seals or signatures for spiritual energies or entities is quite old (similar seals can be found on two thousand year old Coptic magical papyri). This particular example probably dates to medieval times, and is drawn from the "magic square" of Saturn, an ancient table of numbers believed to contain the magical essence of Saturn. The magick square of Saturn is a table of the numbers one through nine, arranged in such a way that all rows add to 15. The seal is created by tracing the numbers in the square in order.\n\n\n\nIn the kabbalisticly based traditions of ritual magic , the planets are the manifestation in the physical world of higher cosmic forces. These forces are represented by the numbers that embody their qualities. The seals and symbols are used to invoke those qualities (Saturn in ritual magic represents the forces of containment, time, death, and stagnation) in ritual.
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There is a description of the symbols and their meaning at the US Mint website, here:\n\nhttp://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/50sq_program/states/index.cfm?state=NY
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This site tells you, I just searched u.s. motto and this was the first site. Hopes it helps.\n\nhttp://www.coinresource.com/articles/in_god_we_trust.htm
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The motto\n\nCanada's motto "A Mari usque ad Mare" (From sea to sea) is based on biblical scripture: "He shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth (Psalm 72:8)". The first official use of this motto came in 1906 when it was engraved on the head of the mace of the Legislative Assembly of the new Province of Saskatchewan. The wording of the motto came to the attention of Sir Joseph Pope, then Under Secretary of State, who was impressed with its meaning. He later proposed it as motto for the new design of the coat of arms, which was approved by Order in Council on April 21, 1921 and by Royal Proclamation on November 21, 1921.\n\nThe motto of Canada, official since 1921, was suggested as early as 1866 by Sir Samuel Tilley, New Brunswick politico, and a father of Confederation. He drew it from the Old Testament, Psalm 72. In St. Jerome’s Latin version of Holy Writ, called the Vulgate, the passage reads “et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare.” The King James translation is “and he shall have dominion also from sea to sea.”\n\nAs nitpickers, we may note Elizabethan scholars mistranslation of the Latin adverb usque as ‘also.’ It is a particle placed before the preposition ad to give a kind of poetic emphasis to the meaning of the preposition. This results in the more appropriate rendering into English of ‘from sea yea onto sea’ or ‘from one sea all the way through to another sea.’ Not better English but a better sense of the Latin. \n\nBased on the same Biblical passage, Tilley said the new country should be not the kingdom of Canada, but rather the Dominion of Canada. And so it became in the text of the British North America Act.
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Depends on how far down the rabbit hole you are willing to go?\n\nYes, on the surface the symbology is the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States as passed by Congress in 1782. The symbol of the all seeing eye, the illumination and symbol of many secret societies dating back to the Egyptians.\n\nThen there is what it meant to the Egyptians- a symbol of power- the eye of Amen-Ra (Amen, the God you unknowingly call several times in Christian ceremonies...)\n\nDo you really want to dig any deeper? Let's stop there for the moment.
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It's latin.\n\nIt's about the metal vessel of ancient design with the legend ITI SAPIS POTANDA TINONE on it. \n\nThere aren't many hits if googled, but some of them come up with the alternative ITI SAPIS POTANDA BIGONE, which a) doesn't look Latin enough, b) seems more of a giveaway in any case.
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it means you're in heaven, figuratively speaking.\n\nbasically a state of happiness, elation or bliss; \n\nhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cloud_nine
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It means moisture high up (probably ~5 kilometers) but it does not necessarily mean rain.  I used to see that in San Diego quite a lot, and it hardly ever rained.\n\nThe ring is caused by cirrus clouds, which is one of the three main types of clouds (the others being cumulus and stratus).
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The line in question, "one nation under God" was ADDED to the pledge in the Cold War days as an anti-communist stance.  Maybe we should simply change the pledge back to its original wording.\n\n"In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer."