If an ancient Roman was somehow dropped into Washington in the year 2022, ... “In the Lincoln era, people really made a very big deal about this: the fasces as a symbol of unity. ...

Musk aggressively thumped his open palm onto his upper chest and—to the shock of millions of viewers around the Western world—delivered a Roman, or fascist, salute.

SPQR stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus, which translates to "The Senate and Roman People" or "The Senate and People of Rome." Initially, this acronym was meant to symbolize the ancient Roman ...

Others, however, suggested it resembled the Roman salute, which is also known as the "fascist salute" and was later adopted ...

ROME — In a chilling echo of the era of Benito Mussolini, a male voice yells out, “For all fallen comrades,” prompting a throng of right-wing supporters on a Roman street to declare ...

The Roman salute was adopted soon after by the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who came to power in 1922. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party adopted it in 1926, calling it the German salute.

It’s absolutely true that Mussolini was obsessed with ancient Rome, and his Fascist party and regime were named for the ancient Roman symbol of justice and punishment known as the fasces.

This was not a fascist gesture, they insisted, but a “Roman salute.” Several posted scenes from the 2005-07 TV series Rome , which depicts Roman salutes, as evidence in support of their claim.

Will2Rise is an active wear brand that caters to white supremacist and fascist Active Clubs, ... the company’s gear is branded with stylized silhouette of a fasces — the ancient Roman symbol ...

The Roman salute survives as a raised-arm salute used for political purposes and in media, particularly within the 20th century as a familiar symbol of Nazism in Germany, Fascism in Italy and ...

"This salute was based on an ancient Roman custom, just as the term Fascism itself is associated with the Roman fasces — the bundles of rods with an axe in their middle that were a symbol of the ...