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The Tau Cross, also known as St. Anthony's Cross or Crux Commissa and many others, is an ancient and heraldic cross.
Crux is exactly opposite to Cassiopeia on the celestial sphere, and therefore it cannot appear in the sky with the latter at the same time.
The most prominent feature of Crux is the distinctive asterism known as the Southern Cross.
Both authors, however, depended on unreliable sources and placed Crux in the wrong position.
By AD 400, most of the stars in the constellation we now call Crux never rose above the horizon for Athenians.
Crux is easily visible from the southern hemisphere at practically any time of year.
The stars within Crux were known to the Ancient Greeks, where Ptolemy regarded them as part of the constellation Centaurus.
The south celestial pole can be found midway along the line joining Crux to Achernar.
Beginning in the colonial age, several southern countries and organisations started to use Crux as a national or distinctive symbol.
The rhea's body is marked by the four main stars of Crux, while its head is Gamma Centauri and its feet are the bright stars of Musca.
The four or five brightest stars of Crux appear, heraldically standardised in various ways, on the flags of Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Samoa.
Crux is sometimes confused with the nearby False Cross by stargazers.
Crux boasts four Cepheid variables that reach naked eye visibility.
After the first half of the expedition, Vespucci mapped Alpha and Beta Centauri, as well as the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross and the Coalsack Nebula.
A stylized version of Crux appears on the Australian Eureka Flag.
The Kalapalo people of Mato Grosso state in Brazil saw the stars of Crux as Aganagi angry bees having emerged from the Coalsack, which they saw as the beehive.
Very few bright stars of importance lie between Crux and the pole itself, although the constellation Musca is fairly easily recognised immediately beneath Crux.
Due to precession, Crux will move closer to the South Pole in the next millennia, up to 67 degrees south declination for the middle of the constellation.
Rapid Youth and No Paws are the two most active bands in that they play shows frequently, but Ancient Crux, Trudgers and Twin Lion all have releases.
In tropical regions Crux can be seen in the sky from April to June.
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The Crux is built with its Max Preload Quad limbs, Hybrid A-Cam system, aluminum reflex riser, Offset String Suppressor and much more.
According to Crux, the new track and road cycling helmets are a revolutionary development to helmet design and safety.
Crux were caused by the characteristic delinquencies of old Mazey and the dogs.
Crux on her suggestion, with the absolute certainty in her own mind that you have followed her advice without communicating it in any form whatever to me or to my niece.
Crux was thus comfortlessly divided into two separate residences, no more convenient arrangement than this could well have been devised.
This is the crux of the hypnotic dilemma and the answer is far from solved.
On it is a crux ansata, with two figures at the sides, both in front and behind, believed to be the four Evangelists.
It is essentially the same symbol as the crux ansata, and is emblematic of the male triad and the female unit.
The real crux of the situation, at the moment, was the demobilization of the Cuban army.
He has a form of the crux ansata for his scepter and a globe in his left hand.
The relation between insanity and ghostliness in recent fiction is significant and forms the crux of many a story since Poe.
He saw that influenza was the crux of epidemiology, and paid special attention to it.
Priests are portrayed in adoration of the crux ansata before phallic monuments.
The Queen's hands are crossed over her breast, and clasp the crux ansata, the symbol of life.
Absolute and perfect union is possible only at the center, the crux, of Being.
At Skulltree was the crux of the situation, as Flagg had insisted, ragefully.
Just in this fact lies the chief moral crux in the use of the twilight sleep method of obstetrical delivery.
Ah, that had been the crux of it all, of her doubt, of her hesitance.
The crux ansata is found in the hand of most of the Egyptian deities.
Here, in truth, lies the crux of the greatest problem of all.
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