Furthermore, the compass boasts rich visual elements – such as the compass rose also known as a “rose of the winds”, which depicts cardinal and intercardinal directions that serve to enhance ...

Today, the U.S. Postal Service released 1794 Compass Rose, a Global Forever stamp featuring a colorful 18th-century compass rose, at the Southeastern Stamp Expo in Peachtree Corners, GA.

When fung shui masters assess directions, they use units of 15 degrees known as the 24 mountains, which are inscribed on Chinese compasses, or luo pans. Each of the four cardinal (for example ...

More specific than cardinal directions are intermediate or ordinal directions (northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest) and secondary intercardinal directions (north-northeast, east ...