The mudguards were painted black as a sign of mourning.

Cutting the hair also may be a sign of mourning.

A similar custom existed in Greece, in the belief that use of mirrors is a sign of vanity that does not become mourning.

Rare sample of Egyptian terra cotta sculpture, could be Isis mourning Osiris, ( raising her right arm over her head, a typical mourning sign ).

However, the pope only wore his beard from 27 June 1511 to March 1512, as a sign of mourning at the loss of the city of Bologna by the Papal States.

Julius shaved his beard again before his death, and his immediate successors were clean-shaven ; however, Pope Clement VII again adopted the beard as a sign of mourning after the 1527 sack of Rome.

Jewish ritual also requires rending of one's upper garment as a sign of mourning.

In post-Biblical times, the shofar was enhanced in its religious use because of the ban on playing musical instruments as a sign of mourning for the destruction of the temple.

It was only shaven as a sign of mourning, though in this case it was instead often left untrimmed.

On the day of Campbell-Bannerman's death the flag of the National Liberal Club was lowered to half-mast, the blinds were drawn and his portrait was draped in black as a sign of mourning.

A close family member wears only black clothes for forty days and nights, or sometimes a year, as a sign of mourning.

With the death of the King only a month following Churchill's 1952 visit, the front of Rideau Hall was covered with black bunting as a sign of mourning.

The color white, however, was regarded in much of Persia as a sign of mourning.

There are also commonly speech taboos during extended periods of mourning or initiation that have led to a large number of Aboriginal sign languages.

The flag is never lowered to half-mast as a sign of mourning because lowering it would be considered blasphemous.

During Holy Week it is customary in some places for even the priest and deacon to use the hand censer for all of the censings, as a sign of humility and mourning at the Passion of Christ.

During the Napoleonic Wars, when Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was killed in battle, his troops changed the colour of their uniforms to black, with a Totenkopf on their shakos in mourning their dead leader ( Other sources claim that the " Black Brunswickers " were so equipped while Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick lived, as a sign of revenge on the French.

Adam's mourning is cut short, however, when he discovers a bloodied flower in his shrine, believing it a sign from Isis.

The legendary patriotic explanation for this color scheme was that it was a sign of mourning for the occupied and divided motherland of Poland.

* 9 / 11-This ribbon is a sign of mourning for those killed in the September 11th attack.

The poor might just wear a black armband over their regular clothing as a sign of mourning.

The obverse design consists of an inverted wreath, a sign of mourning, and the East face of the Tomb which contains the figures of Peace, Valor and Victory.

:" The absence of a sign is always the sign of an absence, and the absence of the E in A Void announces a broader, cannily coded discourse on loss, catastrophe, and mourning.

Many of the 80, 000 people who filled the Olympic Stadium for West Germany's football match with Hungary carried noisemakers and waved flags, but when several spectators unfurled a banner reading “ 17 dead, already forgotten ?” security officers removed the sign and expelled those responsible from the grounds.

The use of rainbow flags has a long tradition ; they are displayed in many cultures around the world as a sign of diversity and inclusiveness, of hope and of yearning.

The use of rainbow flags as a sign of diversity, inclusiveness, hope and yearning has a long history.

Signs are normally placed on both sides of the road and in some places there are small ( less than 1 / 4 the size of the sign ) rectangular orange reflector flags attached to both upper right corners of both signs.

The speed limit sign marking the new speed zone may also have the orange flags.

Often this is explained by assuming Tromp had not followed orders, but although he is indeed infamous for his usual insubordination, this time he simply had not seen the sign flags and the look-out of the centre mistakenly reported a confirmation sign.

The coat of arms on the flags and stone portals of Dubrovnik were painted black as a sign of grief by Dubrovnik's citizens after the invasion by Napoleon.

As a sign of celebration, ships in harbour may be ' dressed overall ' by stringing International Code flags ( arranged at random ) from stemhead to masthead, from masthead to masthead ( if the vessel has more than one mast ) and then down to the taffrail.

* Dress overall: To string International Code of Signals flags, arranged at random, from masthead to masthead ( if the vessel has more than one mast ) and then down to the taffrail, on a ship in harbor as a sign of celebration of a national, local, or personal anniversary, event, holiday, or occasion.

Hundred women were gathered to sign this message and submit their objections ; then they went in a feminist demonstration raising their flags and chanting slogans.

Due to rain, the Confederates wrapped their flags in black sheathing, which the Home Guard mistook as a sign of no quarter.

The background of the image shows the skyscrapers of an urban skyline ; surrounding the Dalek ( clockwise, from upper right ) are: a tyrannosaurus ( standing on a building's roof ); a hulking simian humanoid figure holding a gun ; a blue police box ; the multicoloured diamond Doctor Who logo ; a superimposed banner with the flags of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Italy ; a crumpled sign reading " I LOVE NEW YORK "; a logo reading " ADMIRAL SOFTWARE "; a figure with a Dalek base and a wizened, humanoid torso and head ; the Statue of Liberty, broken and fallen at an angle ; and a red Dalek flying on a disc and shooting its energy weapon.

A sign and set of international flags along International Avenue

The holiday parades will be somber, with the U. S. flag being flown upside down as a sign of distress, signifying the two losses to the Confederate States.

** Pennant ( commissioning ), the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission

From there, he was flown by a Lear jet ( using the call sign SPAR 92 ) to Ramstein, Germany.

Albatros D. III ( Oeffag ) series 253 fighters of the escadrille at Lewandówka airfield in the winter of 1919-1920 ; the plane marked with a large I sign was flown by the escadrille's commanding officer, Cedric Faunt-le-Roy

* There is a Ritual flag that is flown during the inductions weekend, and the senior members of the Ritual staff ( Chief Trail Guide, Assistant Chief Trail Guide, and Adult Chief Trail Guide ) sign the flag as a mark of their service to Firecrafter.