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Work cat.: Peace : the biography of a symbol, c2008: t.p.; p. 20 (the peace symbol, unique 20th-cent. creation) jacket (peace
symbol first appeared publically in Trafalgar Square April 1958, as emblem of British nuclear disarmament movement; its designer,
Gerald Holtom, combined semaphore symbols for letters "N" and "D" as emblem. Later used in America as anti-Vietnam War symbol,
now a worldwide symbol for peace)