Red Cross

Domain	Definition
Health	An international agency providing various humanitarian services. (references)
Literature	Red Cross (The). The badge of the royal banner of England till those of St. Patrick and St. Andrew were added. "The fall of Rouen (1419) was the fall of the whole province ... and the red cross of England waved on all the towers of Normandy."- Howitt: History of England, vol. i. p. 545. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Public Administration	Red Cross, general term used for one or all the components of the humanitarian worldwide organization; The official name is International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which has 3 components:International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC); League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies(LORCS); And the individual National Red Cross or Red Crescent Society of each country. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Red Cross

One might be looking for the Anarchist Red Cross. The terms Red Cross and Red Crescent are often used as short names for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The Red Cross is a symbol which under the Geneva conventions is to be placed on humanitarian and medical vehicles and buildings to protect them from military attack. The Red Cross flag is not to be confused with the St George cross which is the flag of England, Barcelona, Freiburg and several other places. The red cross of the St George Cross extends to the edge of the flag, whereas the red cross on the Red Cross flag does not.

Originally only the Red Cross (being the flag of Switzerland reversed) was to be used as a symbol of the Geneva conventions, but Muslim nations (primarily the Ottoman Empire, later Turkey) objected to this, and as a result an additional symbol (the Red Crescent) was to be provided for. Later Persia (now Iran) managed to have a red lion and sun (the lion and sun being the symbol of Persia) added to the list of available symbols; though the symbol no longer being used by Iran has fallen into disuse in favour of the Red Crescent, Iran has in the past reserved the right to take it up again at any time.

Israel then requested the addition of a Red Star of David, arguing that since Christian and Muslim symbols were recognized the corresponding Jewish symbol should be as well. This symbol is the one currently used by the Israeli Red Cross, but it is not recognized under international humanitarian law. The Red Cross movement has rejected this Israeli request, since if Jews (or another group) were to be given another symbol, there would be no end to the number of religious or other groups claiming a symbol for themselves. That would detract from the original intention of the Red Cross symbol, which was to be a single symbol to mark vehicles and buildings protected on humanitarian grounds. In response, the Red Cross movement is in the process of developing a new symbol, which will be without any religious connontations and also easily recognizable on the battlefield; once the Red Cross movement has adopted the symbol it will then be presented to the State Parties to the Geneva Conventions for amendment of the treaties.

Use of the Red Cross

As provided for by the Geneva Convention, the red cross symbol is to be used only to denote the following:

facilities for the care of injured and sick armed forces members;
armed forces medical personnel and equipment;
military chaplains;
Red Cross groups such as the International Committee of the Red Cross; the League of Red Cross Societies; and the various national Red Cross societies including the American Red Cross.

The Geneva Convention obliged its signatories to prevent the unauthorized use of the name and emblem in wartime and peacetime in order to ensure universal respect for the symbol.

Nevertheless, the symbol, in some different colour, is an international symbol indicating first aid, medical supplies, and the like.

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Modern Usage: Red Cross

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well don't let it get to your head, your hair is already such a disaster that the Red Cross wouldn't give it coffee! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) When a man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross! (Dirty Harry; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink; Rita M. Fink) If it wasn't for Red Cross donations, this vampire would die! (Rockula; writing credit: Luca Bercovici; Jefery Levy)
Movie/TV Titles	Red Cross Trailer (1941) The Spirit of the Red Cross (1918) National Red Cross Pageant (1917) From Flower Girl to Red Cross Nurse (1915) A Red Cross Seal Story Hope (1912)
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Commercial Usage: Red Cross

Domain	Title
Books	American Red Cross Basic Water Safety and Emergency Water Safety/Instructor's Manual (reference) American Red Cross Emergency Water Safety Textbook (reference) American Red Cross lifeguard training instructor�s manual (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	American Red Cross Emergency Test (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	1944-The Red Cross Concert (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Red Cross

Photo Album: Red Cross

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	10/23/00 - TAN SON NHAT, Vietnam (AFPN) -- Members of the Vietnamese Red Cross and the 7th Military Region here greet a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules, Oct. 20. The C-130 delivered a water purification system, and other relief supplies and equipment.		Caption: Rehearsal of Scene from the Motion Picture Hope, a Red Cross Seal Story, at the Motion Picture Studio, Bronx, NY; Bronx, NY; 1905; {23.460/9} (jpg).
	[Rose Window, American Red Cross Hospital, Liverpool, England]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Red Cross Society of Japan : The Japanese Red-Cross Hospital At Chemulpho. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Photograph probably taken on board USS Minnesota (Battleship # 22), circa 1910, and published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Company during the World War I period. Note other men relaxing and reading. Note "Nick Carter" magazine in center, and men at right holding a USS Minnesota cap ribbon. . See Photo # NH 85292 (extended caption) for the text printed on the original stereograph card's reverse side, concerning the sailors' "comfort bags" and other items provided by American women through the Red Cross and Navy League during World War I. Credit: NAVY.		Military and civilian personnel in an office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa 1919. Numbers on columns indicate that this space is on the third floor, eighth wing, looking south in of one of those buildings. Many of the people present are Navy Yeomen and Yeomen (F). This office is in the same space as seen in Photo # NH 52923, but on the opposite side of the room. Note name tags for "Miss Jones" and "Miss Crandall" on desks in the photo center; also Red Cross participation poster on the back wall, proclaiming "We Belong - 100% Strong". Credit: NAVY.
	Will. B. Dorman's original red cross bitters / New England Lith. Co., Boston. Credit: Library of Congress.		Red Cross nurse seeing vision of wounded soldiers across stormy sea. Credit: Library of Congress.
	American Red Cross Balkan Survey--Mud ankle-deep in Serbia made the trip of the members of the American Red Cross not an easy one--Here they are pushing the Red Cross camion out of the mire on the road between Vranga and Grdjelitza. Credit: Library of Congress.		A storekeeper in a small lumber camp in the mountains of eastern Kentucky filling a Red Cross order for a family of four persons. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Historic Usage: Red Cross

Non-Fiction Usage: Red Cross

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Talks between the Government and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on prison visits resumed in June. (references)
Civil Liberties	Fiji	The ICRC and the Fiji Red Cross visit the camp periodically. (references)
	Albania	Another 108 Macedonian-Albanians did not apply for asylum but were assisted by the Red Cross. (references)
	Namibia	The Namibian Red Cross Society (NRCS) temporarily withdrew from the Osire camp after the incident. (references)
Economic History	Iceland	Flag: Red cross edged in white on a blue field. (references)
	North Korea	Officials exchanged visits, and regular communications were established through a North-South coordinating committee and the Red Cross. (references)
	Cyprus	The United States has channeled $305 million in assistance to the two communities through the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Cyprus Red Cross since the mid-1970s. (references)
Human Rights	Solomon Islands	Red Cross and other volunteers were able to provide appropriate assistance in rural areas. (references)
	Cameroon	Both the Cameroonian Red Cross and the NCHRF visited prisons only infrequently during the year. (references)
	Djibouti	An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate from Kenya made quarterly visits to the main prison. (references)
Minorities	Nigeria	There were approximately 11,600 IDP's as a result of the conflict, according to the Nigerian Red Cross. (references)
	Ghana	The Ghana Red Cross reported 68 deaths, 43 injuries, 2600 displaced persons, 203 homes partially or completely burned down, and 17 stores destroyed. (references)
Political Economy	Western Sahara	Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have stated that Morocco indeed has released all Polisario former combatants. (references)
Trade	Turkey	X-ray film can only be imported by the Red Crescent Association (sister organization to the Red Cross). (references)
	Moldova	These agreements include such organizations as the United Nations, IMF, World Bank, EBRD, OSCE, Soros Foundation, U.S. Government technical assistance projects, TACIS, Red Cross and some other institutions/aid programs. (references)
Worker Rights	Colombia	Workers at the Red Cross and the Social Security Institute also went on strike to protest proposed changes in their respective institutions. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following: "Be good, be good!" the sisterhood Cry out in holy chorus, And, to dissuade from sin, parade Their various charms before us. But why, O why, has ne'er an eye Seen her of winsome manner And youthful grace and pretty face Flaunting the White Cross banner? Now where's the need of speech and screed To better our behaving? A simpler plan for saving man (But, first, is he worth saving?) Is, dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him, Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, And wants to sin -- don't let him.
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Spoken Usage: Red Cross

Speeches: Red Cross

Expressions: Red Cross

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Red Cross

Modern Translation: Red Cross

Language		Translations for "Red Cross"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		Rooi Kruis. (various references)

Albanian		kryqi i kuq. (various references)

Arabic		‏الصليب الأحمر (the red cross). (various references)

Bulgarian		червен кръст (geneva cross). (various references)

Chinese		紅十字會 . (various references)

Czech		èervený kříž (the red cross). (various references)

Danish		Røde Kors, det Røde Kors. (various references)

Dutch		Rode Kruis. (various references)

Esperanto		Ruĝa Kruco. (various references)

Finnish		Punainen Risti. (various references)

French		croix rouge. (various references)

German		Rotes Kreuz, das Rote Kreuz. (various references)

Greek		Ερυθρός Σταυρός, ερυθρόσ σταυρόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		vöröskereszt (geneva cross, the red cross), szent györgy kereszt, keresztes vitézek keresztje. (various references)

Italian		Croce rossa. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		赤十字 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せきじゅうじ. (various references)

Manx		Yn Chrosh Yiarg (The Red Cross). (various references)

Pig Latin		edray osscray

Portuguese		cruz vermelha. (various references)

Russian		красный крест. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		crveni krst. (various references)

Spanish		cruz roja. (various references)

Swedish		Röda korset. (various references)

Turkish		kızılhaç. (various references)

Vietnamese		hội Chữ thập đỏ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Red Cross

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-o-r-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: corders, crossed, crosser, dorsers, records, recross, scorers.
	-2 letters: coders, corder, corers, corses, credos, crores, crosse, decors, dorser, dosers, dosser, orders, record, resods, scored, scorer, scores, scrods.
	-3 letters: ceros, coder, codes, coeds, cords, cored, corer, cores, corse, coses, credo, cress, crore, cross, decor, decos, doers, dorrs, doser, doses, dress, dross, order, redos, resod, rosed.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-o-r-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: crossbred, recrossed.
	+2 letters: crossbreds, crossbreed, discourser, misrecords, recordists, scorecards.
	+3 letters: cordgrasses, corresponds, crossbarred, crossbreeds, crossruffed, descriptors, desecrators, discoursers, discoverers, misericords, predecessor, radarscopes, reconsiders, rediscovers, reprocessed, scoreboards, underscores.
	+4 letters: broadcasters, cerebrosides, crisscrossed, discouragers, intercrossed, misericordes, ostracoderms, predecessors, preprocessed, rebroadcasts, sclerodermas, subdirectors.
	+5 letters: carbohydrases, codiscoverers, crossbreeding, directorships, discographers, overprocessed, rediscoveries, stockbreeders.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Remedy	Hotel des Invalides; sanatorium, spa, pump room, well; hospice; Red Cross.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorised voluntary national Red Cross organisations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease, and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world. (reference)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Lynne Cheney	Well, my net proceeds are going to the American Red Cross, and to projects that foster historical appreciation.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	The International Committee of the Red Cross, in our view, would be an appropriate agent in this matter.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
american red cross	4,318	red cross volunteer	19
red cross	3,214	red cross symbol	18
canadian red cross	199	american red cross job	15
international red cross	103	red cross cpr certification	13
american red cross cpr	60	american red cross lifeguard training	13
red cross cpr	51	red cross australia	12
red cross canada	39	red cross lifeguard	12
red cross shoes	33	red cross swim lesson	10
red cross blood donation	29	american red cross first aid	10
red cross first aid	26	new york red cross	10
red cross swimming lesson	24	red cross clip art	9
red cross blood drive	23	red cross first aid kit	9
british red cross	22	american red cross blood services	8
australian red cross	22	red cross flag	8
red cross history	21	red cross book	5
red cross picture	20	red cross car donation	4
america red cross	19	red cross water safety	4
red cross swimming	19	knight of the red cross	2
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Expressions using "Red Cross": international committee for the red cross ♦ red cross badge ♦ the red cross. Additional references.
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Treaty of Versailles

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Lynne Cheney

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John F. Kennedy

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Modern Translation: Red Cross

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