In his new book, “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks,” Keith Houston reveals the stories behind esoteric punctuation marks, from the pilcrow ...

news Watchdog. The Punisher, a comic book character, is now a symbol of defiance used by both police and rioters Pop culture symbols can easily be appropriated for the wrong causes.

A black dot on a third-century Indian manuscript has been identified by Oxford University as the first recorded use of the mathematical symbol for zero, 500 years earlier than previously thought ...