A chatty coat of arms? According to the French, it is. Known as arms parlant or ‘canting’ arms, these shorthand emblems of identification play a visual pun on the family surname. It is up to the ...

During the Fiesta de Santa Fe every summer, many attendees might notice wooden, shield-shaped objects hanging from the outsides of buildings around the Plaza. These objects are known as coats of arms ...

Bartelomeo Colleoni was a well known Italian military captain in the 15th century. Although "Colleoni" doesn't directly translate to "balls" in English, an Italian homophone (soundalike word) matching ...

Coats of arms, hereditary graphic signs identifying families of nobility, first appeared in Poland in the 13th century. The Polish use of these signs differed in some aspects from what was typical in ...

Definition of "coat of arms": an arrangement of bearings, usually depicted on and around a shield, that indicates ancestry and distinctions. In scarlet red and white, this coat of arms uses elements ...

Researching your family history can reveal all sorts of fascinating and unexpected things about your ancestors - from where they lived and how they worked, to secret siblings and long lost cousins. As ...

Canada's coat of arms was adopted by royal proclamation 100 years ago, and some say it's overdue for a redesign. Nunavut's new MP, Lori Idlout, said she was asked by the Capital Current, a Carleton ...