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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Gender symbols

The two gender symbols for men and women are actually astronomical symbols. The male's is Mars and the female's is Venus. The astronomical symbols, first used in 1751 by Carl Linnaeus, were meant to denote the gender of planets. Mars is supposed to represent a shield and spear
and Venus is supposed to be carrying a hand mirror.

(Never mind Pluto at the end.)

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1 comments:

Vicky said...

cool! thanks... it helped me play "the lost symbol quest" and win!

September 28, 2009 at 1:22 AM  

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