he would note that the arms of Lincoln’s white marble chair are carved to resemble a bundle of wooden rods known as a fasces. Those rods are ripe with symbolism. But what sort of symbolism?

When pictures surfaced of James Alex Fields Jr. and others carrying shields with fasces (a bundle of rods or sticks) emblazoned on them at the Charlottesville protests, historians took note.

Federal buildings throughout Washington, and across the country, are decorated with “fasces” – the bundle of rods with an axe that Benito Mussolini adopted for his political movement.

In republican Rome, the chief magistrates were protected in public by lictors: bodyguards who each carried a fasces, a bundle of 12 rods tied together and surrounding outward-facing axes. The lictors ...

The term “fascism,” as we know it, originates in the Latin fasces, the name for the bundle of rods, with an ax projecting from the middle, carried by an official known as the lictor in ancient ...

The shaft of the lectern is in the form of a “fasces,” a bundle of rods inset with rising arrows bound by two horizontal tapes. The fasces represents Witherspoon’s activities as a statesman. The Bible ...

Known as Il Duce, or "the duke," Mussolini headed the National Fascist Party, which was symbolized by an eagle clutching a fasces - a bundle of rods with an axe among them. At Mussolini's urging ...

The word fascism derives from the fasces symbol of Ancient Rome, a bundle of rods containing an axe, which signify collective strength. Another effect of 1917 was to undermine further the ...