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All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral, John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ''!!
Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.
* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
The anarcho-capitalist flag is also widely used by voluntaryists, whose philosophy is very similar.
* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
* 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.
The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
Betsy Ross ( January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836 ) is widely credited with making the first American flag.
* 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
The ANC flag is composed of three stripes – black, green and gold.
The flag is now in the Baltimore Orioles museum.
If the mutated sequence is present in the patient's genome, the probe will bind to it and flag the mutation.
alt = Four ships flying the British flag advance in the foreground towards an anchored battle line in which the only clear detail is a huge burning ship.
Hanging on the western wall is Queen Victoria's burial flag, given to the college soon after her death.
Under the flag is the high table where the professors and college administration lunch.
This flag is not used all that often if at all.
What is normally seen is the flag with green on both ends with a golden circle that reads " Cape Breton Island, Canada " with the island in the middle and a green ' X ' behind in the background.
The most usual is the system of the Confederação Brasileira de Capoeira ( Brazilian Capoeira Confederation ), which adopts ropes using the colors of the Brazilian flag, green, yellow, blue and white.

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This flag is useful for critical information that must not be modified or erased, such as special files that are used only by internal parts of the computer system.
In many navies, the rank of commodore was merely viewed as a senior captain position, whereas other naval services bestowed upon the rank of commodore the prestige of flag officer status ; commodore is the highest rank in the Irish Naval Service, for example, and is held by only one person.
On March 25, 2010, Defense Secretary Gates announced new rules mandating that only flag officers could initiate discharge proceedings and imposing more stringent rules of evidence on discharge proceedings.
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.
Hopkinson ’ s itemized bill, moreover, is the only contemporary claim that exists for creating the American flag.
Use of flags outside of military or naval context begins only with the rise of nationalist sentiment by the end of the 18th century ; the earliest national flags date to that period, and during the 19th century it became common for every sovereign state to introduce a national flag.
Throughout the world the flag has been used in public discourse to refer to the United States, not only as a nation, state, government, and set of policies, but also as a set of ideals.
This type of freeware is released as a type of promotion for the other product, which is often based on the same code base with only a compiler flag required to produce the free version.
* It is often stated that the Texas flag is the only state flag that can be flown at the same height as the American flag, because of Texas's former status as a nation.
It is also the only Nordic flag without a Nordic Cross.
Sometimes this practice is taken to excess, and the head of state begins to believe that he is the only symbol of the nation, resulting in the emergence of a personality cult where the image of the head of state is the only visual representation of the country, surpassing other symbols such as the flag, constitution, founding father ( s ) etc.
After being labelled " an upmarket Orange hall " by the party, IKEA assured customers and co-workers that only the Swedish flag would be seen outside the actual store.
The only 16-bit instructions that affect any flag are DAD H / D / B, which sets the CY ( carry ) flag in order to allow for programmed 24-bit or 32-bit arithmetics ( or larger ), needed to implement floating point arithmetics, for instance.
As a consequence, the trend is towards not providing arbitrary timeouts, but only a flag which indicates that the IPC should fail immediately if the partner is not ready.
In some countries, the national flags are only flown from non-military buildings on certain flag days.
It was only with the emergence of nationalist sentiment from the late 18th century that the desire was felt to display national flags also in civilian contexts, notably the US flag, in origin adopted as a naval ensign in 1777, which after the American Revolution began to be displayed as a generic symbol of the United States, and the French Tricolore which became a symbol of the Republic in the 1790s.
The only differences between these flags is that the Australian flag has the Commonwealth Star below the canton, and that on the New Zealand flag, just four stars in the Southern Cross are presented, and they are five-pointed red stars with white borders.
On the other hand, all five stars of the Southern Cross are presented on the Australian flag, and they are white with seven points, except for the additional smaller fifth star in the Southern Cross which has only five points on this flag.

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Although not flag officers, modern day commodores in the U. S. Navy rate a blue and white command pennant that is normally flown at their headquarters facilities ashore or from ships that they are embarked aboard when they are the senior officer afloat.
The flag is usually flown by the government of the country holding the rotating presidency Council of Ministers, though in 2009 the Czech President, a eurosceptic, refused to fly the flag from his castle.
On occasions where the European flag is flown alongside all national flags ( for example, at a European Council meeting ), the national flags are placed in alphabetical order ( according to their name in the main language of that state ) with the European flag either at the head, or the far right, of the order of flags.
On Europe Day 2008, the flag was flown for the first time above the German Reichstag.
A civil flag is a version of the national flag that is flown by civilians on non-government installations or craft.
Several countries ( including the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union ) have had unique flags flown by their armed forces, rather than the national flag.
Large versions of the war flag flown on the warships of countries ' navies are known as battle ensigns.
A national flag flown at sea is known as an ensign.
Each flag or pennant has a specific meaning when flown individually.
Before that day, the flag had served mostly as a military ensign or a convenient marking of American territory, flown from forts, embassies, and ships, and displayed on special occasions like the Fourth of July.
The flag has become a powerful symbol of Americanism, and is proudly flown on many occasions, with giant outdoor flags used by retail outlets to draw customers.
* 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
The large flags shown in the corners are the Flag_of_the_United_States # Historical_progression_of_designs | 37-star flag of the United States ( flown 1867-1877 ), the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom, the Russian Imperial Standard, and the Flag of France | French tricolore with inset French Imperial Eagle | Imperial Eagle.
The flag is flown by the government, but usually can also be flown by citizens of the country.
The Philippines does not have a distinctive war flag in this usual sense, but the flag of the Philippines is legally unique in that it is flown with the red stripe on top when the country is in a state of war, rather than the conventional blue.

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