The Jesuit emblem, the flag of Uruguay, the flag of Kiribati, some versions of the flag of Argentina, the Irish Defence Forces cap badge, and the 1959 – 1965 coat of arms of Iraq are official insignia which incorporate such symbolism.

For less than a year between 1862 – 63, Peruvian ships ( and a few Chilean ships under the Peruvian flag ) combed the smaller islands of Polynesia from Easter Island in the eastern Pacific to Ellice Islands ( now Tuvalu ) and the southern islands of Kiribati, seeking recruits to fill the extreme labour shortage in Peru.

The nation of Kiribati made its debut Olympic appearance at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and East Timor marched under its own flag for the first time.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

The flag of the FSLN consists of an upper half in red, a lower half in black, and the letters F S L N in white.

The NOAA flag is in essence the Coast and Geodetic Survey flag, with the NOAA logo — a circle divided by the silhouette of a seabird into an upper dark blue and a lower light blue section, but with the " NOAA " legend omitted — centered within the red triangle.

The presidential standard is identical to the swallow-tailed state flag but also has in its upper left corner the Cross of Liberty after the Order of the Cross of Liberty, which has the President of Finland as its Grand Master.

In addition to the blue cross on the white background, the yacht club flag had the crowned arms of the province of Uusimaa within two crossed branches in the upper hoist quarter.

Like many former and current British dependencies, the Tuvaluan flag is a blue ensign based on the Union Flag, which is shown in the upper left canton of the flag ; but has a sky blue field rather than ( the conventional ) blue.

The new Company flag design of 1806 placed the Imperial eagle in the upper left quarter of Russia's commercial flag.

The National flag shall be rectangular in the proportion of two in the width to three to the length ; per pall from the hoist, the upper band red ( chilli ) and lower band blue, with a black triangle at the hoist ; over the partition lines a green pall one fifth the width of the flag, fimbriated white against the red and blue, and gold against the black triangle at the hoist, and the width of the pall and its fimbriations is one third the width of the flag.

The national flag of Slovenia features three equal horizontal bands of white ( top ), blue, and red, with the Slovenian coat of arms located in the upper hoist side of the flag centred in the white and blue bands.

This symbol is then placed in the upper left canton of the red flag.

# Five-pointed star is inscribed into a circle with a diameter of ⅛ of the flag height, the circle is tangent to the upper side of the square.

Distance from the upper side of the flag to the center of the star is ⅛ of the flag height.

The flag of Poland consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red.

In 1814 independent Norway adopted the Danish flag with the Norwegian lion in the canton or the upper square at the hoist.

The correct way ( since an order from the Earl Marshal in 1938 ) is for the church to fly the St George's cross, with the arms of the diocese in the left-hand upper corner of the flag.

The flag of the City of London is based on the English flag, having a centred St George's Cross on a white background, with a red sword in the upper hoist canton ( the top left quarter ).

When she was half a mile away, Baralong ran up a signal flag indicating that she was going to rescue Nicosians crew.

However, this was considered an awkward title and the one-star flag rank was renamed a few months later to its current title of rear admiral ( lower half ), abbreviated by the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard as RDML.

Some historians believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.

The design of the European flag was displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the French presidency of the EU in the second half of 2008.

The flag is rectangular with 2: 3 proportions: its fly ( width ) is one and a half times the length of its hoist ( height ).

* 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U. S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later ( see Flag Act ).

The flag most frequently associated with the pope is the yellow and white flag of Vatican City, with the arms of the Holy See ( blazoned: " Gules, two keys in saltire or and argent, interlacing in the rings or, beneath a tiara argent, crowned or ") on the right-hand side ( the " fly ") in the white half of the flag ( the left-hand side — the " hoist "— is yellow ).

Each full flag on the Wind Barb represents of wind, each half flag represents.

On the occasion of great national tragedies, the ministry of interior may recommend flying the flag at half mast throughout the country.

As the Minnow is leaving the harbor and heading out to sea, an American flag flying at half staff can be seen briefly in the background.

The national flag is rectangular ; it is one and a half times as long as it is wide.

The white field is a Canadian pale ( a square central band in a vertical triband flag, named after this flag ), and each bordering red field is exactly half its size.

The next VFL flag came in 1932, with the Tigers triumph over Carlton in a tough encounter which saw Richmond wingman Alan Geddes play the second half with a broken jaw.

' Upon seeing this, the young men of the town thought it to be rather an imposition, and collected together, procured the services of the band, and under the direction of a military officer marched to the rear of the hotel, and with a wheelbarrow and shovel took the empty keg that had been broken open, and playing the dead march with flag at half staff marched to the flagpole in front of Humiston ’ s office where they dug a grave and gave the empty keg a burial with all the honors attending a soldier ’ s funeral.

The final design which was adopted contains the Union Flag in the left corner symbolising Australia's historical links to the United Kingdom, the stars of the Southern Cross on the right half of the flag indicating Australia's geographical location and the seven pointed Federation Star in the bottom left representing the six states and the territories of Australia.

" The flag of Liepāja has the coat of arms in the center, with red in the top half and green in the bottom.

The Wrestler has been condemned as an " anti-Iranian " film in many Iran newspapers and websites, in response to a scene in which Mickey Rourke violently breaks a pole bearing an Iranian flag in half across his knee.

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.