The Oscar depicts a knight rendered in art deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.
It is 13.5 inches (9) tall and weighs 8.5 lbs (13).
Knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility.
The Oscar is a knight in shining gold armor.
Idols given to idols.
Look at the etymology of Oscar, knight and crusade....
Very interesting. The word spear is found 46 times in the KJV, which is the number of DNA.
Crusade means to mark with a cross.
- Oscar
- masc. proper name, O.E. Osgar "god's spear," from O.E. gar "spear" + os "god" (only in personal names), from O.E. ansu- "spirit," from PIE *ansu-, source of the first element in Aesir, Asgard (from O.N.) and Ahura Mazda (from Avestan). The statuette awarded for excellence in film acting, directing, etc., given annually since, 1928, first so called 1936. The name is said to have sprung from a 1931 remark by Margaret Herrick, secretary at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on seeing the statuette: "He reminds me of my Uncle Oscar." Thus the award is named for Oscar Pierce, U.S. wheat farmer and fruit g
- knight (v.)
- "to make a knight of (someone)," early 13c., from knight (n.). Related: Knighted; knighting.
- knighthood
- O.E. cnihthad "the period between childhood and manhood;" see knight (n.) + -hood. Sense of "rank or dignity of a knight" is from c.1300, and probably is an independent formation.
- knight (n.)
- O.E. cniht "boy, youth; servant, attendant," common West Germanic (cf. O.Fris. kniucht, Du. knecht, M.H.G. kneht "boy, youth, lad," Ger. Knecht "servant, bondman, vassal"), of unknown origin. The plural in M.E. sometimes was knighten. Meaning "military follower of a king or other superior" is from c.1100. Began to be used in a specific military sense in Hundred Years War, and gradually rose in importance until it became a rank in the nobility 16c. The chess piece so called from mid-15c. Knight in shining armor in figurative sense is from 1917, from the man who rescues the damsel in distress in romantic dramas (perhaps especially "Lohengrin"). Knights of Columbus, society of Catholic men, founded 1882 in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.; Knights of Labor, trade union association, founded in Philadelphia, 1869; Knights of Pythias, secret order, founded in Washington, 1864.
- crusade
- 1706, respelling of croisade (1570s), from M.Fr. croisade (16c.), Sp. cruzada, both from M.L. cruciata, pp. of cruciare "to mark with a cross," from L. crux (gen. crucis) "cross." Other M.E. forms were croiserie, creiserie. Figurative sense of "campaign against a public evil" is from 1786
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