Snowflake (heraldry) Snowflake (heraldry) The snowflake or "snow crystal", is a charge in heraldry. The display in coats of arms is following a strictly stylized form of the natural six pointed crystal form of a snowflake. In older heraldic literature, this charge is not to be seen. In modern heraldry, the snowflake is most used in northern Europe, in arms in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it alludes to the meteorological features of the lands. Otherwise, it also is a symbol for winter, and together with the sun the changing seasons ("e.g." In the arms of Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria, ), or locally
Not So Bad as We Seem, or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts Not So Bad as We Seem, or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts Not So Bad as We Seem, Or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts, was a play written by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1851, and performed the same year as a charity event to benefit the Literary Guild, a society for struggling authors. The performance was especially notable for its cast, which included novelists Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, "Punch" editor Mark Lemon, artists Augustus Egg and John Tenniel, and writers Peter Cunningham and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens and Collins met