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The ultimate origin of the white cross is attributed by three competing legends: To the Theban Legion, to the Reichssturmfahne ( Imperial War Banner ) attested from the 12th century, and to the Arma Christi that were especially venerated in the three forest cantons, and which they were allegedly allowed to display on the formerly uniformly red battle flag from 1289 by king Rudolph I of Habsburg at the occasion of a campaign to Besançon.

As time has passed and science has progressed, the speed of military vehicles has increased, the range of missiles has been extended, the use of target-hunting noses on the projectiles has been adopted, and the range and breadth of message sending has increased.

Washington apparently decided to use an old formula, by injecting large military appropriations to speed the slow revival of the U.S. economy after a prolonged slump ''.

The official military establishment can only threaten to use its nuclear arms ; ;

Members of the Medical Illustration Service lectured and conducted demonstrations on the use of training aids to military personnel and various civilian medical organizations.

Biological warfare is the intentional use of living microorganisms or their toxic products for the purpose of destroying or reducing the military effectiveness of man.

# The limited range of subjects of use, because the regulations apply for civil aircraft, and do not concern military, customs or police aircraft.

The Assyrians were also innovative in military technology with the use of heavy cavalry, sappers, siege engines etc.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

Some Protestant US military chaplains carry the Roman Rite version of the Anointing of the Sick with them for use if called upon to assist wounded or dying soldiers who are Catholics.

US military maps record an abatis by use of an inverted " V " with a short line extending from it to the right.

Jain communities accepted the use of military power for their defense, and there were Jain monarchs, military commanders, and soldiers.

The uniform use of brass for coinage and military equipment across the Roman world may indicate a degree of state involvement in the industry, and brass even seems to have been deliberately boycotted by Jewish communities in Palestine because of its association with Roman authority.

When they are lit, it is a way for one to call for military aid from the other, as per its historical use in medieval Europe.

Some public authorities, police forces and military forces make use of armoured buses where there is a special need to provide increased passenger protection.

A battle always has as its purpose the reaching of a mission goal by use of military force.

The use of the term " battle " in military history has led to its misuse when referring to almost any scale of combat, notably by strategic forces involving hundreds of thousands of troops that may be engaged in either a single battle at one time ( Battle of Leipzig ) or multiple operations ( Battle of Kursk ).

Although the use of aircraft has for the most part always been used as a supplement to land or naval engagements, since their first major military use in World War I aircraft have increasingly taken on larger roles in warfare.

As a tactical weapon for military use, a significant problem with a biological warfare attack is that it would take days to be effective, and therefore might not immediately stop an opposing force.

* Burroughs made military computers, such as the D825 ( the " D " prefix signifying it was for defense industrial use ), in its Great Valley Laboratory in Paoli, Pennsylvania.

The Brezhnev Doctrine stayed in effect until it was finally ended with the Soviet non-invasion of Poland during the 1980-1981 crisis and later refusal of Mikhail Gorbachev to use military force when Poland held free elections in 1989 and Solidarity defeated the Communist Party.

To offer an example of these concepts, O ' Flaherty makes use of " one of the oldest reasons why cities were built: military protection ".

Sihanouk did not allow the United States to use Cambodian air space and airports for military purposes.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

The Danish historian Caspar Paludan-Müller in 1873 in his book " Sagnet om den himmelfaldne Danebrogsfane " put forth the theory that it is a banner sent by the Pope to the Danish King to use in his crusades in the Baltic countries.

As its use in jousting became obsolete, coats of arms remained popular for visually identifying a person in other ways – impressed in sealing wax on documents, carved on family tombs, and flown as a banner on country homes.

Media conglomerate Viacom purchased Neopets, Inc. on 20 June 2005 for $ 160 million and announced plans to focus more on the use of banner ads over the site's existing immersive advertising.

Given the use of similar symbols on the Roman standard, this depiction also conveyed another victory, namely that of the Christian faith: the Roman soldiers who had once arrested Jesus and marched him to Calvary now walked under the banner of a resurrected Christ.

Both units use the original Green Mountain Boys battle flag as their banner.

Both SuperValu and Albertsons LLC use the Albertsons store banner name.

FSN's parent network used this score banner but with a different graphics package from 2001 until 2003, although the parent network's baseball broadcasts continued to use these graphics during the 2004 season except during the playoffs.

The earliest record of the use of red and white panji or pataka ( long flag along curved bamboo pole ) were written in Pararaton ; according to this source, the troops of Jayakatwang from Gelang-gelang hoisted the red and white banner during their invasion to Singhasari.

Design is all-important in a banner for ecclesiastical use.

Many permission-marketing firms ( like yes mail. com, now part of the business incubator CMGI ) claim that customer response rates are in the region of 5-20 %, and since most use e-mail, they are not affected by the measurement problems of banner advertising.

Pseudo-Kodinos records the use of the " tetragrammic cross " on the banner ( phlamoulon ) borne by imperial naval vessels, while the megas doux displayed an image of the emperor on horseback.

Griffith did not use Dorothy in any of his earliest epics, but while he spent months working on The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, Dorothy was featured in many feature-length films made under the banner of Triangle and Mutual releases.

As the banner of the Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland, the Royal Standard of Scotland remains a personal banner of the monarch and, despite being commonly used as an unofficial second flag of Scotland, its use is restricted under an act passed in 1672 by the Parliament of Scotland.

* The Army Cadet Force bands and the air cadet organization bands in the UK under the banner of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets use the general formation used by the British Army and the RAF

Given the use of similar symbols on the Roman standard, this depiction also conveyed another victory, namely that of the Christian faith: the Roman soldiers who had once arrested Jesus and marched him to Calvary now walked under the banner of a resurrected Christ.

The first use of the Phil Lesh and Friends banner was on September 24, 1994 at the Berkeley Community Theater.

Kasparov also felt it illogical that the Romans and the Greeks living under the banner of Byzantium could fail to use the mounds of scientific knowledge left them by Ancient Greece and Rome, especially when it was of urgent military use.

The banner was in use until 1815, when the reign of the last king of the Kandyan Kingdom, King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, was brought to an end with the Kandyan nobility's signing of the Kandy convention on 2 March proclaiming King George III as King of Ceylon and replacing the Lion flag with the Union Flag as the national flag of Ceylon.

Since George Calvert's mother was an heiress, he was entitled to use both coats of arms in his banner.

Different standards are used by Elizabeth in the other Commonwealth realms and she holds another banner for use as Head of the Commonwealth.

that they do not produce are reruns of the former HBO series Sex and the City and films under the banner " Movies We Love "; the latter was part of a since-abandoned initiative by the network to use films to increase their ratings.

Many communities in the U. S. use light poles as a tool for fund raising via light pole banner sponsorship programs first designed by a U. S. based light pole banner manufacturer.