International Day of Light

[Arthur Radburn]

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Today, 16 May, is the International Day of Light. The day was established by Unesco last year, as "a global initiative that provides a platform for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education and sustainable development". Well, let's see how that can translate into heraldry.

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Sunlight and torchlight -- the arms of Okanagan College in British Columbia, Canada, granted in 1989.

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Candlelight -- four candles in the arms of the town of Candelo in Italy, granted in 1931.

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Gaslight -- an "exterior gaslight mantle tempore 1906" in the civic arms of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, granted in 1998.

[Arthur Radburn]

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Electric light -- a light bulb in the arms of the Witwatersrand Technical College in South Africa, dating from the 1920s.

Can you add any other examples to illuminate this theme?

[Torsten Laneryd]

Coat of arms of the British Antarctic Territory