When the union flag was raised over Possession Point on 26 January 1841, the population of Hong Kong island was about 7, 450, mostly Tanka fishermen and Hakka charcoal burners living in a number of coastal villages.

Microprocessors such as the Intel 8008, the direct predecessor of the 8080 and the 8086, used in early personal computers, could also perform a small number of operations on four bits, such as the DAA ( Decimal Add Adjust ) instruction, and the auxiliary carry ( AC / NA ) flag, which were used to implement decimal arithmetic routines.

Among these were the writing of the Fundamental Principles of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, introducing a general amnesty for those people imprisoned during Nur Mohammad Taraki's and Amin's rule, and replacing the Khalqist flag with a more traditional one.

While the new ex-colonial states appeared to follow the blueprint of the idealized state-centralized government, territory enclosed by defined borders, and citizenry with defined rights -, as well as accessories such as a national flag, an anthem, a seat at the United Nations and an official economic policy, they were in actuality far weaker than the Western states they were modeled after.

had to drink There were even drinking game referee officials, including a ' registrar of the rules ' who knew all the rules to the game, a ' registrar of the horn ' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a ' governor ' who decided one's third call of offense.

In the 19th and early 20th century, these images were used by many Danish historians, with a good flair of nationalism, trying to date the origins of the flag to 1219.

As late as 1892 it was stated in a series of regulations that the correct lengths of the two last fields in the flag were 6 / 4.

So in May 1893 a new regulation to all chiefs of police, stated that the police should not intervene, if the two last fields in the flag were longer than 6 / 4 as long as these did not exceed 7 / 4, and provided that this was the only rule violated.

As so often is the case after a flag, the following two years were below standard.

The high flag rank officers, junior officers and many high command officers from the Pakistan's Armed Forces were highly cautious about their appointment in East-Pakistan, and the assignment of governing East Pakistan and appointment of an officer was considered highly difficult for the Pakistan High Military Command.

Many designs were in use that complied with the flag resolution, with stars arranged in a square, a wreath, rows, patterns, or the familiar " Betsy Ross " circle.

The " relative " coordinates in the following table were found by scaling the luminous reflectance relative to the flag ’ s " white ".

The cyan forms, the US flag, Seal of the President of the United States | presidential seal and the Caslon lettering were all designed at different times and combined by designer Raymond Loewy in this one final design.

The home rule government held an official call for flag proposals, receiving 555 ( of which 293 were submitted by Greenlanders ).

The crew Tintin joined was composed of Europeans from Axis or neutral countries (" Europe ") while their underhanded rivals were Americans ( although in later editions the US flag was removed from the rival ship ; see the image on the The Shooting Star page ), financed by a person with a Jewish name and what Nazi propagandists called " Jewish features.

The migration of the ARPANET to TCP / IP was officially completed on flag day January 1, 1983, when the new protocols were permanently activated.

There was a cardinal rule that the warriors of the Order should never surrender unless the Templar flag had fallen, and even then they were first to try to regroup with another of the Christian orders, such as that of the Hospitallers.

After realising who the passengers were, the U-boat started rescue operations while flying the Red Cross flag.

Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching classical tune composed by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over photos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with the flag featuring MTV's logo changing various colors, textures, and designs.

The sanctions were lifted in September 1995 after Macedonia changed its flag and aspects of its constitution that were perceived as granting it the right to intervene in the affairs of other countries.

There were traditionally 12 clans or tribes on Nauru, which are represented in the 12-pointed star in the nation's flag.

The chiefs were kept under house arrest until the next morning, when the annexation ceremony began with the raising of the German flag.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Henry Hudson put in to Dartmouth on his return from America, and was arrested for sailing under a foreign flag.

" Street was arrested and charged with a New York state law making it a crime " publicly mutilate, deface, defile, or defy, trample upon, or cast contempt upon either by words or act flag of the United States.

On August 15, 2007, Russian authorities arrested a student for allegedly posting a video on the Internet which appears to show two Muslim migrant workers being beheaded in front of a red and black swastika flag.

When he was arrested for desecrating a flag in Prague, Mayerová's parents took her into the country, in hope that this would end their relationship.

They were arrested following the display of the flag of the German Empire over the entry of the Germania club in Fayetteville.

Rogge also was one of the few German officers of flag rank who was not arrested by the Allies after the war.

On June 13, 2005, Kayak was arrested inside the United Nations headquarters in New York City after he tried to switch the United Nations flag with the Puerto Rican one, while the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization discussed the political status of Puerto Rico.

On April 20, 2007, Kayak was arrested in Israel after he climbed a surveillance tower near Israel's West Bank separation barrier and planted a Palestinian flag in support of Palestine.

Osceola was arrested when he came under a flag of truce to negotiations in 1837.

On another occasion, police stopped Hoffman at the building entrance and arrested him for wearing an American flag.

Though in ill health, Albizu was arrested at once when Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and opened fire on the members of the Representatives of the 83rd Congress with the intention of capturing world wide attention to the cause of Puerto Rican independence on March 1, 1954.

It had been learnt that several pirates were aboard, sailing under the protection of the Red Ensign, so it was boarded by the water patrol, who arrested 12 Chinese sailors and took down the flag.

When Coacoochee arrived under a flag of truce, Jesup arrested him.

When Osceola and Coa Hadjo arrived for the meeting, also under a white flag, they were arrested.

In the fall of 1968, students rallied in support of Craig Pastor ( now Craig DeYong ) who had been arrested by New Paltz Village Police for desecration of the American flag which he was wearing as a superhero cape in a student film directed by Edward Falco.

" Activists have also been arrested while playing a game of capture the flag on May 1, 2011.

In 2007 six teenagers in the South Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam were arrested for burning an Israeli flag.

In Serbia, flag desecration is illegal and on 20 May 2009 secretary general of the International Workers ' Association Ratibor Trivunac was arrested and punished with 10 days in prison for burning an American flag during the visit of the US Vice President Joe Biden.

The librettist of his requiem for Che Guevara, titled Das Floß der Medusa ( The Raft of Medusa ), was among several people arrested at the 1968 Hamburg premiere in the riot that followed the placing of a red flag on the stage.

" He was later arrested and convicted on a flag desecration law in Texas, and sentenced to one year in prison and a $ 2, 000 fine.

On April 27, 1981, Droege and eight other men, including Canadian James Alexander McQuirter and American Don Black, who later founded the white nationalist website Stormfront, were arrested by federal agents in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat with automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, ammunition, and a black and white Nazi flag.

Jeanne's father burns his Japanese flag and identity papers, but is arrested by the FBI and beaten when taken to the jail.

The colonial government passed several laws: all arrested leaders and collaborators would be executed on the spot, ships carrying weapons would be seized and all onboard immediately executed, males 15 and older caught outside of their plantations or places of residence without justification would be summarily executed, all towns were ordered to raise the white flag, otherwise burnt to the ground, any woman caught away from her farm or place of residence would be concentrated in cities.