Luanne Rice

Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

American Novelist

Lucy Larcom

Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

American Poet

Nostradamus

To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.

French Celebrity

Bettany Hughes

The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then.

Graham Joyce

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

English Writer

Crescent often describes the moon's shape when partially visible.

Moon Phases

Objects that mimic the moon's form may also be called crescent.

Not Always Lunar

A crescent can denote both the growing and diminishing phases of the moon.

Waxing or Waning

Use crescent descriptively to paint a picture of the shape in a reader's mind.

Visual Imagery

Art and jewelry often use crescent shapes for aesthetic appeal.

Artistic Shapes

Recognize the crescent as a symbol of Islamic heritage in various contexts.

Cultural Symbol

In flags, the crescent represents a connection to Islamic culture and community.

Flag Identity

Crescent can describe the contour of a street or housing arrangement.

Architectural Term

The crescent design is a choice for residential areas, known for its community feel.

Urban Planning

 And more importantly, what are we going to do about it? Well, to answer the slightly easier question first, about 10,000 years ago, I would say, is the beginning of this process in the ancient Near East, known as the Fertile Crescent. Because, as you can see, it was crescent shaped.

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 after we'd finished filming "Wonders of the Solar System." So it isn't in the series. It's of the moon Enceladus. So that big sweeping, white sphere in the corner is Saturn, which is actually in the background of the picture. And that crescent there is the moon Enceladus,

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 The beautiful thing is that it moves bodily. It's what's technically known as a "barchan," and the entire dune walks across the desert in a westerly direction at a speed of about 17 meters per year. It retains its crescent shape and moves in the direction of the horns.

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 A total eclipse begins as a partial eclipse, as the moon very slowly makes its way in front of the sun. So first it looked the sun had a little notch in its edge, and then that notch grew larger and larger, turning the sun into a crescent.

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 or they could just be two lines intersecting. If we add a crescent moon shape, and a circle with a line on it in front, the two lines now have a context, a relationship to their surroundings, and are magically revealed as the letter T.

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 And although most Hindus live in India, they can be found on every continent, one billion strong. Now, let's travel west, across deserts and mountains to the fertile crescent about 4,000 years ago. Judaism began with God calling

The five major world...

 i arrived to this massive rock in the middle of the desert and this was like a it has the crescent shape of the moon and it was amazing tucked into the base of hatch rock is rockland ranch a community of modern

Modern Lives, Ancient...

 but in this case it was really easy to choose the song. So basically, Baku is this sort of crescent bay overlooking the island of Zira, the island that we are planning -- almost like the diagram of their flag.

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 crescent of the moon you know all this gives me over the crest for animals Crepuscule animals should be coming out it's a very good tilt of day and night there should be out ready to either come

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 amazing it's like it's not it's not normal I'm gonna look up with my approved binoculars right and the true says I'm yeah oh my gosh it looks like a crescent moon but it looks like about

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