It's said that the Dutch Tricolor has inspired many flags but most notably those of Russia, New York City, and South Africa ( the 1928 – 94 flag as well the current flag ).

The shield of the Royal Arms of New South Wales crowned with the St Edward's Crown is employed as the badge of the governor, appearing on the viceroy's flag and on other objects associated with the person or the office.

At midnight on New Year's Eve 1929, Nehru hoisted the tricolour flag of India upon the banks of the Ravi in Lahore.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 15, Belgium 9, Brazil 5, Canada 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 7, China 39, Croatia 11, Denmark 4, Ecuador 1, Estonia 1, Germany 437, Greece 154, Hong Kong 69, India 5, Indonesia 1, Israel 1, Italy 5, Japan 90, Latvia 20, Man, Isle of 5, Monaco 56, Netherlands 12, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 103, Pakistan 1, Portugal 5, Russia 66, Saudi Arabia 21, Singapore 20, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, South Korea 10, Spain 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 17, Taiwan 29, Turkey 3, Ukraine 4, United Arab Emirates 12, United Kingdom 39, United States 113, Uruguay 3, Vietnam 1 ( 2002 est.

In July 2010, New Caledonia adopted the Kanak flag, alongside the existing French tricolor, as the dual official flags of the territory.

The new team took as its primary colors the blue of the Dodgers and the orange of the Giants ( which are conveniently two of the three colors on the New York City flag ), and took their name from the original 19th century New York Metropolitans club.

Blue and orange are also the colors of New York City, as seen on its flag.

Also, Australia and New Zealand share a very similar flag, which stems from their joint British heritage.

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 December 20, 1803 the French flag was lowered in New Orleans and the U. S. flag raised, symbolizing the transfer of the Louisiana territory from France to the United States.

The divisive issue of flag desecration as a form of protest first came before the Supreme Court in Street v. New York,.

" 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.

" In a 5 – 4 decision, the Court, relying on Stromberg v. California,, found that because the provision of the New York law criminalizing " words " against the flag was unconstitutional, and the trial did not sufficiently demonstrate that he was convicted solely under the provisions not yet deemed unconstitutional, the conviction was unconstitutional.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey changed the name of Newark's airport from Newark International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport and a flag now flies over Teminal A's Gate A17.

* December 1 – Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag and changes its name to West Papua.

Hundertwasser's Koru Flag, proposal for a new New Zealand flag | New Zealand national flag based on a Māori people | Maori motif

The green harp flag in its 18th to 19th century design, showing the " Maid of Erin " as the harp's pillar, her wing forming the harp's neck, and the inscription Erin go Bragh (" Ireland forever "). According to an American journalist covering the war with Mexico:

In some regions of Mexico, a fruit salad ( watermelon, orange, jícama, cucumber and sometimes melon and papaya ) tossed in lime juice and hot sauce or chamoy and sprinkled with a salty chili powder is also known as pico de gallo ; it is a popular snack and usually sold outside schools, while the tomato-based condiment is better known as salsa picada, which means minced or chopped sauce, salsa mexicana or salsa bandera ( flag sauce ), because the colors – red ( tomato ), white ( onion ), and green ( chili ) – are the colors of the Mexican flag.

The PRI was criticized for using the colors of the national flag in its logo, something considered not unreasonable in many countries, but frowned upon in Mexico, while there is no law that forbids this act.

The flag of Mexico went up the flagpole at the Presidio, but only for 24 years.

Until July 1968, Lometa was a night flag stop on the Santa Fe passenger train the California Special that ran from Clovis, New Mexico to Houston.

After the liberation of Mexico was secured, he was proclaimed President of the Regency in 1821 and Constitutional Emperor of the new nation, reigning as Emperor briefly from 19 May 1822 to 19 March 1823, and he is credited as the original designer of the first Mexican flag.

Another legacy that Iturbide left to Mexico was its modern flag, creating the flag known today.

Then, in just his seventh-career Nationwide Series race, Montoya took the checkered flag in Mexico City to earn his first win in a stock car.

The mayor ( or governor, in the case of state capitals and ambassadors or consuls in the case of overseas celebrations ), rings a bell and gives the traditional words, with the names of Mexican independence heroes included, ending with the threefold shout of Viva Mexico !, the bell ringing for the second time, the waving of the Mexican flag and the mass singing of the National Anthem by everyone in attendance.

The International Woman's Flag Football Association, otherwise knows as the IWFFA, hosts 8 on 8 flag football tournaments and flag football trainings across the world with participants from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Scotland and several other nations.

The Vichy French authorities refused to allow his coffin to be covered with the Republican flag and he was covered instead with the flag of Mexico, whose then current government sympathized with the Spanish republican cause.

Opportunity suggested the most natural solution was the Italian tricolour defaced with the coat of arms ; however, under conditions of poor visibility, this could easily be mistaken for the standard of the President of the United States of Mexico, which is also that country's national flag.

It appears independently in Babylonian mythology and in the coat of arms and flag of Mexico after an Aztec legend on the founding of Tenochtitlan.

According to a 2001 survey by the North American Vexillological Association, New Mexico has the best-designed flag of any U. S. state, U. S. territory, or Canadian province, while Georgia's 2001 – 2003 state flag was rated the worst design.

The American naval force — with only the gunboat, due to the navigational constraints of the shallow harbor entranc — presented a 21-gun salute to the Mexican flag three times on April 2 1914, to pay tribute to the celebrated occupation of Puebla in 1867 by Mexican General Porfirio Díaz in the last phases of the French intervention in Mexico.

The commander in the Tampico area complied with this and gave a written apology ; however, he did not follow the demands that Mexico raise the U. S. flag on its soil and provide a 21-gun salute.

In clockwise order starting from the frontmost flag, the Flags of the U. S. states | state flag of Arizona, Flag of the Navajo Nation ( twice ), Utah, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico, Navajo Nation ( third instance ) and the flag of the United States of America

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.