But on July 13 he was standing in Pennsylvania Station holding a flag and waiting to greet His All Holiness Dimitrios, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, whose office symbolically unites the world's 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians.

In 1971 the capital was relocated to Belmopan, a geographic center symbolically uniting all regions and peoples.

His victory was reinforced by his marriage to Elizabeth of York, symbolically uniting the former warring factions under a new dynasty.

Barbara Heisler-Williams, executive director of the Community Coalition, said that the Continental Harmony project would help to symbolically unite the area's Asian, Caribbean, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Latin, Russian and African-American residents.

Tradition says that the site of the Vatican Gardens was spread with earth brought from Golgotha by Helena to symbolically unite the blood of Christ with that shed by thousands of early Christians, who died in the persecutions of Nero.

On August 27, 2001 President Vicente Fox attended a ceremony in El Porvenir in which the municipality was officially twinned with San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, thus symbolically uniting the country's industrial, developed north with its rural, underdeveloped south.

Alexander intended to symbolically unite the Persian and Macedonian cultures, by taking a Persian wife himself and celebrating a mass wedding with Persian ceremony along with his officers, for whom he arranged marriages with noble Persian wives.

The conflict was ended by King Henry VII of England, who symbolically united the White and Red Roses to create the Tudor Rose, symbol of the Tudor dynasty.