Crown
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Crown or The Crown may refer to:
[edit] Symbols of monarchy or rank
[edit] Ancient Egypt
[edit] Ancient Rome
- Civic Crown, a chaplet of common oak leaves woven to form a crown
- Grass Crown, the highest and rarest of all military decorations in the Roman Republic and early Roman empire
- Naval crown, a gold crown awarded to the first man who boarded an enemy ship during a naval engagement. In style, the crown was made of gold and surmounted with the prows of ships
- Consort crown, a crown worn by the consort of a monarch for her coronation or on state occasions
- Coronation crown, a crown used by a monarch when being crowned
- Hoop crown, a crown consisting of a "band around the temples and one or two bands over the head"
- Imperial crown, a crown used for the coronation of emperors
- Mural crown, identified the goddess Tyche, the embodiment of the fortune of a city, familiar to Romans as Fortuna
[edit] Imperial Iran
[edit] Commonwealth realms
- The Crown, the legal embodiment of Executive Government in Commonwealth countries
- State crown (primarily British but may be applied to other monarchies), the working crown worn by a monarch on recurring state occasions such as State Openings of Parliament, as opposed to the coronation crown with which they would be formally crowned
[edit] Sports
[edit] Currency
- Crown (English coin), originally known as the "crown of the double rose", was an English gold coin introduced as part of King Henry VIII's monetary reform of 1526 with the value of five shillings; later a silver coin of the same value
- Crown (British coin), a heavy silver coin, parallel in size and weight to the United States silver dollar
- Koruna (disambiguation)
- Krona (disambiguation)
- Krone (disambiguation)
- Estonian kroon, the official currency of Estonia for two periods in history: 1928–1940 and 1992–2011
- Hungarian korona, the replacement currency of the Austro-Hungarian Krone/korona amongst the boundaries of the newly created post-World War I Hungary
- crown (currency), is a monatery unit used in the countries of Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the territory of Faroe Islands.
[edit] Places
[edit] Education
- Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz, a residential college
- Crown College (Minnesota), a small private college in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota
- Crown College (Tennessee), an unaccredited school with approximately 900 students
- Crown College (Tacoma), a small, for-profit, predominantly online college located in Tacoma, Washington
[edit] Literature, theatre and films
[edit] Music and audio
[edit] Science
[edit] Dentistry
[edit] Religion
[edit] Businesses
- Crown Castle, an American communications company
- Crown Equipment Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial lift trucks
- Crown Financial Ministries, a non-profit financial services entity
- Crown Holdings, a packaging products company
- Crown Hotel, Nantwich, a grade-I-listed 16th-century inn
- Crown International, amplifier and microphone manufacturer founded in 1947
- Crown International Pictures, a film production company
- Crown Limited, an Australian gaming and entertainment company established in 2007
- Crown Media, a media production company
- Crowne Plaza, a hotel chain
- Crown Paints, a British paint manufacturer
- Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Random House
- Crown Records, a number of different record labels
- Crown Wallpaper, a British wallpaper manufacturer
- Crown Worldwide Group, a relocation company based in Hong Kong
[edit] Motor vehicles
[edit] See also
- List of royal crowns
- Corona (disambiguation)
- Horned helmet, known from a few depictions, and even fewer actual finds. Such helmets mounted with animal horns or replicas of them were probably used for religious ceremonial or ritual purposes
- Heraldry: Helm and crest, the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms. Heraldry comes from Anglo-Norman herald, from the Germanic compound harja-waldaz, "army commander"