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Line 15: Others often greeted Nimoy with the Vulcan sign,<ref name="burr20150227">{{cite news | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/27/leonard-nimoy-spock-star-trek-became-cultural-icon/yYSDjlNOdmp7kh5mFQJq1O/story.html | title=Leonard Nimoy, 83; was TV's iconic Mr. Spock | work=The Boston Globe | date=2015-02-27 | access-date=1 March 2015 | author=Burr, Ty}}</ref> which became so well known that in June 2014 its [[emoji]] character was added to version 7 of the [[Unicode]] standard as {{unichar|1F596|RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2013/10/whats-new-in-unicode-70.html|last=West|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew West (linguist)|title=What's new in Unicode 7.0?|date=October 20, 2013|access-date=January 17, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/unicode-7-0-introduces-2834-new-characters-including-250-emoji/|title=Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji|work=Ars Technica}}</ref> (The emoji's [[Common Locale Data Repository]] annotation has [[American English]] short name "vulcan salute" and keywords "finger", "hand", "spock", and "vulcan" [all lowercase].<ref>{{cite web |title=CLDR v37.0β: Germanic Annotations |url=https://unicode.org/cldr/charts/dev/annotations/germanic.html#%F0%9F%96%96 |website=unicode.org |access-date=26 April 2020}}</ref>) The [[White House]] referenced the Vulcan salutation in its statement on Leonard Nimoy's death, calling it "the universal sign for 'Live long and prosper'".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/27/statement-president-passing-leonard-nimoy|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|title=Statement by the President on the Passing of Leonard Nimoy}}</ref> The following day, [[NASA]] astronaut [[Terry W. Virts]] posted a photo on his [[Twitter]] feed from the [[International Space Station]] showing the salutation (with the Earth in the background) as the ISS passed over where Nimoy =="Live long and prosper"== | |||