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a figure consisting of three stylized human arms or legs (or three bent lines) radiating from a center

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Aetna Foundation declared on Thursday that it has donated USD25,000 to Triskeles Inc to double community gardens and provide fresh produce for food pantries in Greater Philadelphia.

In March, Triskeles and several hundred volunteers will build 95 raised garden beds in the greater Philadelphia area, which, along with 70 previous beds, are expected to yield upwards of 10,000 pounds of lettuce, tomatoes, squash and other vegetables.

Aetna Foundation grants USD25,000 to Triskeles Inc in aid of fresh vegetable programme in Greater Philadelphia

Other carpet pages of the Book of Durrow invite the same interpretation, e.g., folio 3v with its trumpet scrolls, lentoids, spiral peltae and triskeles. And so do the carpet pages of "the jewel" among illuminated manuscripts, the Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library, Cotton Nero D.iv); e.g., Lindisfarne folio 94b, where animals are represented iconically on the margin, and more indexically within parts of the interlace ribbons, which would end in animal heads, like e.g., in folios 95, 210b, and in folio 211, too, where interlace ribbons end up in both zoomorphic and anthropomorphic forms.

Celtic influence on old English rhetoric - a case study of the interface between diachronic contrastive rhetoric and history of art

In The Manxman (1929) the issue of readability is raised from the very outset, the shot of the triskeles (the three legged symbol of the Isle of Man) emblazoned on a ship's flag.

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