Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Herm is the smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public. Cars are banned from the small island just like its Channel Island neighbour, Sark. Unlike Sark, bicycles are banned too. The sandy white beaches make Herm a walker's paradise. Herm flag coat of arms (In Detail) (Full size) National motto: none Official language English Tenants Adrian Heyworth and Pennie Wood Heyworth Area  - Total  - % water 2 km² Negligible Population  - Total (2002)  - Density 60 xxx/km² Currency Pound Sterling Time zone UTC +0 National anthem Sarnia Cherie (Guernsey) Internet TLD .GG (Guernsey) Calling Code XX History Originally Part of Normandy, as a Channel Island is the only part of France still a British Crown dependency. It was occupied by the Nazis during World War II. Chronicles relate that in 709 CE a storm washed away the strip of land which connected the island with the small uninhabited island of Jethou.. Politics Herm is a dependency of Guernsey. See:List of tenants of Herm Geography Herm is only 1½ miles long and less than ½ a mile wide. It is oriented so that its greatest length runs north/south. The northern half of the coastline is surrounded by sandy beaches, the southern half is rocky. Economy Tourism is Herms main economy Demographics Culture Holidays Date English Name Local Name Remarks Miscellaneous topics External links Herm Island Banknotes In classical antiquity and in classical architecture a herm is a stone (sometimes terracotta) pedestal with the sculpted head bust of a deity, often Hermes. In classical times, herms often have carved erections. They were used as boundary markers. The Affair of the Herms, occured in Athens in May, 415 when the harbor at Piraeus was alive with preparations for the ill-fated sailing of the Athenian fleet to Sicily, and the city was full of dreams of a new empire. Athens was astonished by vandalistic acts of sacrilege, of which it is hard now to realise the full effect upon the Athenian mind. When the city woke one morning, it appeared that everywhere the herm images of Hermes— in the agora, at the doorways to houses, before the temples— had been mutilated in the previous night. The horror of the horrible impiety was joined to a civic sense of political terrorism, that the insult to the gods was also an attempt to estrange the tutelary gods from their protection of the city at a vulnerable moment. Countries of the world  |  Continent Herm is also a commune in the Landes département, in France. simple:Herm This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.