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The ends of the arms can be decorated according to different styles. A style with round or rounded ends is called treflée or botonée (from French bouton) in heraldic use. The same style is called budded, apostles' or cathedral cross in religious use. A straight and pointy style called
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has used a red two-barred cross as its logo since 1920, following a proposal at the 1902 Berlin International Conference on Tuberculosis. The two equally long bars are on the upper half of the cross and all six ends are
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and several municipal symbols include a double cross, where graded bars are more common than equally long bars, and balanced distances along the vertical line are more common.
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The two bars can be placed tight together (condensed) or far apart. They can be symmetrically spaced either around the middle, or above or below the middle. One
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variation has one bar near the top and the other just below the middle. Finally the bars can be of equal length, or with one shorter than the other.
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but with an extra bar added. The lengths and placement of the bars (or "arms") vary, and most of the variations are interchangeably called the
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The two-barred cross was also, since around the year 1140, used in
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as seen on one of the five emissions of the silver bracteate of
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use in the second century A.D. A balanced cross is used in the
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as well as in several small shields within shields of
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In typography the double cross (U+2021 ‡) is called
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Cross of Lorraine
Latin cross
cross of Lorraine
patriarchal cross
Orthodox cross
archiepiscopal cross
asymmetrical
pattée
maltese cross
aiguisé



bracteate
Iakša de Kopnik
Silesia
heraldic
Coat of arms of Hungary
Vytis
coat of arms
shields
order
medals
Slovakia
flag
coat of arms
Kopnik, Branibor (currently Berlin, Brandenburg)
Iakša (Jaxa)
archbishops of Gniezno

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