The festival is a symbol of Mandaue City's history.
But to Egyptian cultural officials, the artwork debases one of the great symbols of their country's history.
It's an historical antique, a symbol of our great history.
The map has become a symbol of Australia's pioneering history.
Both are part of Europe's bloody soil, and symbols of its bloody history.
However, Egyptian cultural officials took offense and proclaimed it to be a disgrace to "one of the great symbols of their country's history".
It doesn't matter: onstage, she becomes Mexico, bearing every symbol of the country's long history.
That flag is the symbol of our nation's history.
I do not know what led Hungarian diplomats to demean the symbols of their own history.
In 1895, a train station which later became a symbol of the town's history was constructed.