* 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.

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.

* The Soviet flag, with its golden symbols of the hammer and sickle on a red field, was an inspiration to flags of other communist states, such as East Germany, People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Angola, Afghanistan and Mozambique.

It was used as a symbol of the Roman Republic in many circumstances, including being carried in processions, much the way a flag might be carried today.

* Georgian Airways, the flag carrier of the Republic of Georgia

The leaders seized the General Post Office ( GPO ), raising two flags: a green flag bearing the legend " Irish Republic " and the Tricolour, and proclaiming independence for Ireland.

* 2004 – The national flag of The Republic of Georgia, the so-called " five cross flag ", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.

The Muslim General Ma Bufang also put Kuomintang party symbols on his mansion, the Ma Bufang Mansion along with a portrait of party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen arranged with the Kuomintang Party flag and the Republic of China flag.

a flag of convenience registry ; includes the ships of People's Republic of China 1, Cyprus 1, Denmark 9, Germany 70, Greece 54, Hong Kong 2, Japan 4, Monaco 8, Netherlands 8, United Kingdom 3, United States 87, and Uruguay 1 ( 2002 est.

* 1918 – Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.

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.

There are many proposals for a future flag of a dejure independent Taiwan Republic which also depict the shape or map of the island of Taiwan ( Formosa ).

None of them is the official flag of Taiwan Republic yet, and many design options are present.

a flag of convenience registry ; includes ships from 20 countries among which are Croatia 17, Slovenia 7, People's Republic of China 5, Greece 5, United Arab Emirates 3, Norway 2, Japan 2, and Ukraine 2 ( 1998 est.

The former national flag of South Africa ( from 1927 – 1994 ) had, as part of a feature contained within its central white bar, a horizontal flag of the Transvaal Republic ( ZAR ).

On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex and was draped in the flag of the Republic of Ireland.

The " Colours of Saint George ", or St George's Cross are a white flag with a red cross, frequently borne by entities over which he is patron ( e. g. the Republic of Genoa and then Liguria, England, Georgia, Catalonia, Aragon, etc.

At one point Prime Minister Vohor punched the PRC ambassador when approached to explain why the flag of the Republic of China was flying over the hotel where the Taiwanese representative was posted.

This flag was used as the flag of the Zoutpansberg Republic until this republic was incorporated into the Transvaal Republic also known as the South African Republic.

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

The only version of the flag known to have survived the war was subsequently lost or stolen from the chapel at West Point.

Tromp was promoted from captain to Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and West Frisia in 1637, when Lieutenant-Admiral Philips van Dorp and other flag officers were removed for incompetence.

He became, after a conflict with the WIC about policy and payment, Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and West Frisia on 26 March 1629, and thus factual supreme commander of the confederate Dutch fleet, taking as flag captain Maarten Tromp.

Following World War II, the tricolour was designated as the flag of both West and East Germany.

The four pompeblêden ( water lily leaves ) are derived from the seven pompeblêden on the ( West ) Friesland flag, but the number represents the three separate Frisian regions plus Groningen ( Eastlauwersk Fryslân ).

The flag stop for the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, completed in 1860, was known variously as West Liberty, Days Station, and Dayton Station.

Its flag was known from West Africa to the Far East, and helped to popularize the crescent and star among the Muslim populations of many countries of Asia and Africa.

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U. S. 624 ( 1943 ), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protected students from being forced to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.

The most important U. S. Supreme Court legal victory won by the Witnesses was in the case West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette ( 1943 ), in which the court ruled that school children could not be forced to pledge allegiance to or salute the U. S. flag.

When a flag project opened in 2009 in the Moberly cemetery, General Bradley and his first son-in-law and West Point graduate, the late Major Henry Shaw Bukema, were memorialized with flags in their honor from grateful citizens.

In 1943, Jackson wrote the majority opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, which overturned a public school regulation making it mandatory to salute the flag and imposing penalties of expulsion and prosecution upon students who failed to comply.

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.

It closely resembles the flag of the short-lived Republic of West Florida of 1810.

Although the name " Bonnie Blue " dates only from 1861, several authors have claimed that the Civil War flag is identical with the banner of the Republic of West Florida, which broke away from Spanish West Florida in September 1810 and was annexed by the United States 90 days later.

In 2006 the state of Louisiana formally linked the name " Bonnie Blue " to the West Florida banner by passing a law designating the Bonnie Blue Flag as " the official flag of the Republic of West Florida Historic Region ".

The most notable usage of the Red Ensign as a national flag was when General Louis Botha flew the flag over Windhoek in what was then German South West Africa after the town's occupation by South African troops in 1915.

Cargo ships owned by the North West Company conveniently sailed under the American flag, and doing so meant continued collaboration with John Jacob Astor.

The Genoese flag was adopted from the personal flag of St. Ambrose, the 4th century Bishop of Milan who was a key figure in the development of Christianity in the West.

File: Burgers flag. svg | Flag of Potchefstroom, North West Province, South Africa ( also formerly of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek )

A protester carries a Vietnamese flag in an anti-war march in West Berlin, 1969.

The evidence points to the Atlanta and Florida Railway ( A & F ) naming the community Musella to identify it as a flag stop.

However, the saltire of the Alabama's flag most closely resembles the saltire of the flag of Florida, which has its heritage in the Spanish Cross of Burgundy.

Although Alabama's adoption of its flag design predates that of Florida's by five years ( 1895 ), the 1868-1900 Seal of Florida depicted a white flag with a red saltire, similar to Florida's current flag or a Burgundian saltire, on top of a steamboat.

The most active tournament is held each February in Key West, Florida, called the Kelly McGillis Classic where over 90 women and girls teams participate in 8 on 8, semi-blocking contact flag football.

Based in Florida, the company would evolve into the unofficial US flag carrier, Pan American Airways, commonly known as Pan Am.

This flag was made by Melissa Johnson, wife of Major Isaac Johnson, the commander of the West Florida Dragoons.

File: Florida state flag. png | Flag of Florida

Raising a flag, the slaves proceeded south toward Spanish Florida, a well-known refuge for escapees.

Fleming later advocated adding a red saltire, or diagonal cross, to the Florida flag, in order to distinguish it from a flag of surrender ( the flag at that time was a white flag with the Florida seal in the center ).