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In 1784 Maxwell, who was severely wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill by a bullet through his shoulder, was chosen to represent Heath at the General Court in Boston and obtain a division of the town from Charlemont.
Around that time, the division received its shoulder sleeve insignia, approving it by telegram, though the insignia would not be officially authorized until 1922.
At junctions and sliproads, the yellow line peels away into the turn, with a dashed white line ( with green cats ' eyes ) denoting a lane division following the main route ( i. e. in most cases the road remains the same width, and a turn lane takes the place of the hard shoulder ).
Bilko and his men wore the shoulder sleeve insignia of the 69th Division, then a training division at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
On 7 October 2006 a new kit, made by Diadora and outlining a map of Cyprus in amber from the shoulder to the sleeve with a green line running down the middle indicating the division of the island.
In 1973 the division colors were cased and the shoulder patch ( but not the lineage and honors ) was continued in use as the 89th Army Reserve Command ( ARCOM ).
On 29 May 1923, the division received its shoulder sleeve insignia.
According to the United States Army Center of Military History, RRCs such as the 88th have the same number as inactivated divisions and are allowed to wear the shoulder patch, but division lineage and honors are not inherited by an RRC, which is not considered as a successor to a division.
The division was nicknamed the " Statue of Liberty Division "; the shoulder patch bears the Statue of Liberty in gold on a blue truncated triangle.
The 99th Division's effective defense of the sector prevented the Germans from accessing the valuable road network and considerably slowed their timetable, allowing the Allies to bring up additional reinforcements. The inexperienced troops of the division were lodged on the northern shoulder of the Ardennes Offensive on 16 December.
The shoulder sleeve insignia of the division was designed by its then commander Maj. Gen. Charles L. Bolte with the red, white and blue being the colours of the United States forming a " 6 " and a " 9 ".
The division takes its name from the shoulder sleeve insignia designed for a 1917 training camp contest by American regionalist artist Marvin Cone, who was then a soldier enlisted in the unit.
It was the first allied division to pierce the German Hindenburg Line of defense, and the 32nd then adopted its shoulder patch ; a line shot through with a red arrow, to signify its tenacity in piercing the enemy line.
He resurfaced in World Championship Wrestling in January 1998, where he competed in its cruiserweight division before being released in March 1999 by Eric Bischoff, while Jannetty was recovering from a shoulder injury he suffered during a match with Konnan.
Those defining the division between lanes are white, red road studs are placed along the hard shoulder of motorways, dual carriageways and other roads to mark the left-hand edge of a running lane ; and orange road studs are placed along the edge of the central reservation.
The division was assigned to the LXXX Corps of the German Seventh Army which formed the southern shoulder of the German armies attacking in the Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge.
Although coming off of his worst performance as a Raider, Campbell was assured the start against the division rival Denver Broncos in Week 7 due to Gradkowski's continuing struggles with the shoulder injury he sustained against the Chargers.
On their left shoulder the men of the division wore an olive drab felt patch with the silhouette of a wildcat-after Wildcat Creek, a stream that flows through Fort Jackson.

division and patch
The division patch was selected to honor this legacy and the division's origin in Illinois.
For World War I, personnel were first enlisted from the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Kentucky and were formed into an infantry division in 1917, whereupon they chose the formation's distinctive patch and nickname.
The division arm patch consisted of a black double-headed eagle on a red background.
The division patch worn on Saipan had a gold “ 4 ” on a scarlet background, the official colors of the U. S. Marine Corps.
Each division and I Armored Corps then included its number in the upper yellow portion of the patch to distinguish it.

division and is
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.
The division is not between those who wish to preserve what they have and those who want change.
Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.
Thus there is a clearer division of authority, administrative and legislative.
A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.
( Note: So far as State Police cars are concerned, only their replacement is under this division ).
The symbol for division is a straight line that separates two numbers placed one above the other.
It is hypothesized that fertility is a function of the social system when the population as a whole is considered and a function of the subsystems when the two-fold division of core families and marginal families is considered.
The simplest division, and the one most frequently used ( with subdivisions ) in gas and electric rate cases, is a threefold division of the total operating and capital costs into `` customer costs '', `` energy '' or `` volumetric costs '', and `` demand '' or `` capacity '' costs.
for this division is but an abstract representation of the social struggle between mysticism and science.
their passions were genuine, and the division between them and the abolitionists is clear-cut.
And to " measure " is to place a shorter measuring length s successively ( q times ) along longer length l until the remaining portion r is less than the shorter length s. In modern words, remainder r = l − q * s, q being the quotient, or remainder r is the " modulus ", the integer-fractional part left over after the division.
This division has been used here, although it is not clear whether the approach will be upheld by future research as some of the clades are weakly supported.
Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.
This algorithm is much less prone to loss of precision due to massive cancellation, but might not be as efficient because of the division operation inside the loop.
By preserving the value, only one division operation is needed and the higher-order statistics can thus be calculated for little incremental cost.
Eli Whitney is sometimes credited with developing the armory system of manufacturing in 1801, using the ideas of division of labor, engineering tolerance, and interchangeable parts to create assemblies from parts in a repeatable manner.
However, the team could not sustain its status and is now back in the second division.

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