| Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidah, Gertrude Caton Thompson, p | Alchemy and Symbols, By M |
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| The new Moon at sunset and the old Moon at sunrise, when observed with horns pointing upward, is also known as "wet moon" in English, in an expression loaned from Hawaiian culture | Prior to its association with Islam, a crescent badge had already been used in the US military for the rank of commissary sergeant Emerson 1996:261f |
Florence, Italy: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza Institute and Museum of the History of Science.
9| On December 14, 1992, the Army Chief of Chaplains requested that an insignia be created for future Muslim chaplains, and the design a crescent was completed January 8, 1993 | Geller, Sumerian Gods and Their Representations, Styx, 1997, p71 |
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| , Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms 1996 , p | "The origin of the symbols of the planets" |
Neugebauer, Otto; Van Hoesen, H.