Flags are also used in messaging, advertising, or for other decorative purposes.

* Flags of Native American nations in the United States are common and many tribes have chosen a flag as their symbol of choice.

Flags are particularly important at sea, where they can mean the difference between life and death, and consequently where the rules and regulations for the flying of flags are strictly enforced.

Flags are usually rectangular in shape ( often in the ratio 2: 3, 1: 2, or 3: 5 ), but may be of any shape or size that is practical for flying, including square, triangular, or swallow tailed.

Where this Latveria lies is unclear but there are Belgian Flags on display in the background in the one picture displayed of Latveria.

Mutable ( and therefore unauthenticated ) IPv4 header fields are DSCP / TOS, ECN, Flags, Fragment Offset, TTL and Header Checksum.

The Abbasides or " Black Flags ," as they were commonly called, are known in Chinese history as the Heh-i Ta-shih, " The Black-robed Arabs.

Flags are always on the right side of the stem, and curve to the right.

Manufacturing jobs are with Hutchinson Technology (~ 860 employees, computer and peripheral equipment ) and 3M ( 1300 employees, Flags and vinyl, Scotch tapes ).

They are the Pearl Pirate Band and have a partial reputation for performing at theme parks such as Disney World and Six Flags.

( 5 ) Flags that are continuously displayed must be illuminated during hours of darkness.

Flags are flown as mourning flags

Union Flags are carried and waved by the Prommers, especially during Rule Britannia.

Flags ( mostly national flags and regional flags ), balloons and party poppers are all welcome.

Flags of the respective clubs are often flown at the matches of the other club, and both clubs regularly hold pre-season friendly matches.

During state visits, the monarch and the visiting head of state are escorted in a state carriage up The Mall and the street is decorated with Union Flags and the flags of the visiting head of state's country.

In recent years volunteer members of the Community Group have transformed Church Stretton into the Town of Flags: thanks to local grants they have purchased over 120 flags-English, Union and foreign-and these are regularly flown in the town centre on special occasions throughout the year.

Flags as they are known today did not exist in Antiquity.

The Royal Warrant granting the Arms states that they are "... to be borne for Our said State on Seals, Shields, Banners, Flags, or Otherwise ... according to the Laws of Arms ", and are "... to be used on seals, shields, banners or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms.

Travelers are drawn to the Pioneer Valley by its lively college towns, such as Northampton and Amherst ; the resurgent city of Springfield ; its unspoiled nature, numerous parks, and recreational facilities, including New England's largest and most popular amusement park, Six Flags New England in Agawam ; its cultural and historical sites, such as the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, the United States Armory at Springfield National Park, and the Basketball Hall of Fame on Springfield's riverfront.

" Then roller coasters and attractions of Six Flags are shown and says " Six Flags, More Flags, More Fun!

" The American Dietetic Association, criticizing marketing claims made for food products, has created a list of " Ten Red Flags of Junk Science ".

While General François de Négrier's 2nd Brigade pinned the Black Flags frontally and subjected Hung Hoa to a ferocious artillery bombardment from the Trung Xa heights, General Louis Brière de l ' Isle's 1st Brigade made a flank march to the west to cut Liu's line of retreat.

Six Flags then made a counter offer to instead buy SeaWorld Ohio.

Blackstone made a number of notable investments in the early and mid 1990s, including Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company ( 1991 ), Six Flags ( 1991 ), US Radio ( 1994 ), Centerplate ( 1995 ), MEGA Brands ( 1996 ).

Six Flags White Water is made up of five separate sections, each with a number of attractions.

Six Flags Magic Mountain made few changes in 2004 and 2005.

Bankruptcy loomed once again as Arrow made their final attempt to stay afloat with X, a 4th dimension roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

Bill Reeves, who was interested in algorithms to re-create the turbulence of ocean waves, made Flags and Waves, with waves reflecting a sunset and lapping against the shore.

While General François de Négrier's 2nd Brigade pinned the Black Flags frontally from the east and subjected Hung Hoa to a ferocious artillery bombardment from the Trung Xa heights, General Louis Brière de l ' Isle's 1st Brigade made a flank march to the south to cut Liu's line of retreat.

The flag's appearance varied greatly depending on where it was made: different manufacturers produced Federation Flags with darker or lighter shades of blue for the cross background ; using five-pointed stars instead of eight ; or positioning the stars in different places.

During his absence at Nam Dinh the Black Flags and Vietnamese made an attack on Hanoi, but they were repulsed by chef de bataillon Berthe de Villers in the Battle of Gia Cuc on 28 March.

Flags of Our Fathers ( 2000 ) is a New York Times bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthal's lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of the costliest and most horrifying battles of World War II's Pacific Theater.

* August 1 – The Six Flags over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.

Already in 1980 the Whitney Museum of American Art spent $ 1 million for Three Flags ( 1958 ), then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist.

Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc. was purchased in whole on April 1, 1998 from Time Warner by Premier Parks for $ 1. 86 billion.

On June 1, 2009, Six Flags announced they would delay their $ 15 million debt payment further using a 30-day grace period.

On August 21, 2009, Six Flags ' Chapter 11 restructuring plan was announced in which lenders would control 92 % of the company in exchange for cancelling $ 1. 13 billion in debt.

Premier Parks purchased Six Flags from Time Warner and Boston Ventures on April 1, 1998.

Flags with proportions of 1: 2 and 2: 3 are also in use.

Six Flags Over Texas opened its gates to the public on Tuesday, August 1, 1961, as part of a " soft-test opening ".

On April 1, 1998, Premier Parks acquired the larger Six Flags chain of parks from Time Warner.

Then on September 1, 2011, Six Flags New England officially announced Goliath for the 2012 season, a Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang roller coaster, that will be located where the former Shipwreck Falls was.

Six Flags Fiesta Texas is the major entertainment component of USAA's La Cantera, a 1, 600 acre ( 6. 5 km² ) master-planned development in northwest San Antonio.

Premier Parks purchased Six Flags from Time Warner and Boston Ventures on April 1, 1998, giving Premier Parks the management contract to the park.

On September 1, 2011, Six Flags Magic Mountain announced that they would be opening a new attraction for the 2012 season named Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom.

Six Flags announced on September 1, 2011, that they would add a revolutionary Wing Coaster that would feature 5 inversions, a 12-story drop, and speeds of up to 55 mph.

Flags on a memory-reference instruction specified whether the address should be modified by the M part of a Q Store, and, if so, whether the C part should be decremented by 1 and the M part incremented by the contents of the I part.

Flags reached the # 1 spot on the New Zealand album chart, # 3 in Australia, and entered at # 59 on the Billboard 200 in the US, and climbed as high as # 3 on the U. S iTunes album chart.

On April 1, 1998, Premier Parks purchased Six Flags from Time Warner, and as such, on June 21, 1998, Kentucky Kingdom became known as Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom.

According to Flags of the World, the horizontal stripe have ratio 5: 1: 2.

In the Battle of Palan ( 1 September 1883 ) the Black Flags did less well, being driven from a key position on the Day River.

Financial institutions faced a mandatory deadline of November 1, 2008, to comply with the Red Flags Rule, section 114 and 315 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions ( FACT ) Act.

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