Black Flag or black flag may refer to:

* Black Flag ( newspaper ), a publication in Britain

* Black Flag ( insecticide ), a brand of pesticide

* Black Flag ( band ), a music group

* Black Flag Army, a militia in Vietnam

* 1961 – Henry Rollins, American musician, comedian, and actor ( Black Flag )

Bands such as Black Flag and Crass ( and their followers ) widely stenciled their names and logos, while many punk night clubs, squats and hangouts are famous for their graffiti.

Siege, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, were influenced by classic American hardcore ( Minor Threat, Black Flag, Void ) and by British groups like Discharge, Venom, and Motörhead.

Repulsion, from Flint, Michigan, cited street punk groups like Discharge and Charged GBH, crossover thrash such as Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Corrosion of Conformity, thrash metal like Slayer, Metallica, Sodom, and Venom, and death metal ( Possessed ), hardcore punk, like Black Flag, and older hard rock, as inspirational.

After performing for the short-lived Washington D. C .- based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986.

Since Black Flag disbanded, Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show, MTV < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 120 Minutes, and Jackass.

He has also covered songs by hardcore punk bands such as The Exploited, Jello Biafra, and Black Flag.

* 1961 – Kira Roessler, American singer and bassist ( Black Flag and Dos )

* 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James )

* Black Flag ( newspaper )

* 2002 – Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three – performs on " Thirsty & Miserable "

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).

Among the earliest hardcore bands, regarded as having made the first recordings in the style, were Southern California's Middle Class and Black Flag.

A 1985 Rolling Stone feature on the Minneapolis scene and innovative California hardcore acts such as Black Flag and Minutemen declared, " Primal punk is passé.

Santiago listened to 1970s and 1980s punk including Black Flag and David Bowie.

Penelope Spheeris ' first installment of the three-part documentary " The Decline of Western Civilization " ( 1981 ) details extensive footage of the early Los Angeles punk scene through interviews and early concert footage from Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Germs, Fear, and Catholic Discipline, among others.

Black, white and gold are colours associated with Cornwall due to St Piran's Flag ( black and white ), and the Duchy Shield ( gold coins on black ).

* 1955 – Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter ( Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off!

* In some regions of the Black Forest, the Western Capercaillie can be found.

The new social movements of the sixties, such as the Black Power and anti-Vietnam war movements in the U. S, the May 1968 insurrection in France, and Women's Liberation throughout the Western world, inspired some LGBT activists to become more radical, and the Gay Liberation Movement emerged towards the end of the decade.

The Black Death, which would later ravage Western Europe had its beginnings in Asia, where it wiped out large populations in China in 1331.

* Western Black Rhinoceros

* 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

The targets were Mohammad Yusuf al-Najjar ( Abu Yusuf ), head of Fatah's intelligence arm, which ran Black September, according to Morris ; Kamal Adwan, who headed the PLO's so-called Western Sector, which controlled PLO action inside Israel ; and Kamal Nassir, the PLO spokesman.

The psychological shock of the Western " Black Ships " and the subsequent collapse of the shogunate convinced many that the nation needed to unify in order to resist being colonized by outside forces.

Western Asia is geographically contained from Europe, Asia and Africa, clockwise, by the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Iranian plateau, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Sinai Peninsula, the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea, and lies largely on the Arabian tectonic plate.

The Eurasian margin, now preserved in the Pontides ( the Pontic Mountains along the Black Sea coast ), is thought to have been geologically similar to the Western Pacific region today ( e. g. Rice et al., 2006 ).

The Germs are featured in Penelope Spheeris's documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization along with X, Black Flag, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band, and Catholic Discipline.

Kara-Khanids, or the Karakhans ( Black Khans ) Dynasty, was a state formed by the a confederation of Karluks, Chigils, Yaghma and other tribes in Semirechye, Western Tian Shan and Kashgaria, and who later conquered Transoxiana.

The Black Swan is the state bird of Western Australia

* Black Elk, Wičháša Wakȟáŋ ( Medicine Man or Holy Man ) of the Ogala Teton Lakota ( Western Sioux ) ( d. 1950 )

The Reformation was precipitated by earlier events within Europe, such as the Black Death and the Western Schism, which eroded people's faith in the Catholic Church and the Papacy which governed it.

Washington's victory marked the end of race lines, such as Western Avenue in Chicago Lawn, which had kept Black Americans from living in White neighborhoods.

Black panther sightings are frequently recorded in rural Victoria and New South Wales and Western Australia.

* Mammals – California Ground Squirrel, Western Gray Squirrel, Chickaree, Mule Deer, American Black Bear, Bobcat, Coyote

Black Swans were first seen by Europeans in 1697, when Willem de Vlamingh's expedition explored the Swan River, Western Australia.

The Black Swan is featured on the flag, and is both the state and bird emblem, of Western Australia ; it also appears in the Coat of Arms and other iconography of the state's institutions.

* Twelve Western fonts ( including Andalé Sans, Arial Narrow, Arial Black, Broadway, Garamond, Imprint MT Shadow, Kidprint, Palace Script, Sheffield ) and seven Asian language fonts ( including support for the Hong Kong Supplementary character set )

The relative position of peasants in Western Europe improved greatly and the Black Death unsettled the demography of medieval Europe.

In May, Black Waters, a British and Dominions Film Corporation promoted as the first UK all-talker, received its initial trade screening ; it had been shot completely in Hollywood with a Western Electric sound-on-film system.

Beginning as the " Whitman Famous Classics ," and later renamed the " Golden Press " imprint, Western published a series of ( public domain ) classics, such as Little Women, Little Men, Black Beauty and Heidi.