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.

* June 4 – The flag of Estonia is taken as the flag of the Estonian Students Society in Otepää.

Each GAA county has its own flag / colours ( and often a nickname too ), and county allegiances are taken quite seriously.

" You will see to it that possession is taken in the name of France of all establishments formed in the Southern Island of New Zealand, and that the flag is flown upon them.

The colours were taken from the colours of the Duchy of Brabant, and the vertical design may be based on the flag of France.

This is typically accomplished by maintaining a flag indicating whether the process has taken place.

Although the flag and the coat of arms of the territory contain an image of a reindeer, a decision was taken in 2011 to completely eradicate the animals from the island because of the environmental damage they cause.

As China insisted that it did not hang out the national flag at that time, negotiations eventually broke down, but not before all sailors had been returned to the British with a letter promising great care would be taken that British ships were not boarded improperly.

The name was taken from the Hinomaru, the Japanese flag, which has a white background with a red circle in the centre.

The flag is at half-mast because former American President Ronald Reagan had died just prior to the day the photograph was taken.

Once the army had taken the city it went to the Yellow Crane Tower to raise the " Iron Blood 18-star flag ".

The Board of Education on January 9, 1942, adopted a resolution containing recitals taken largely from the Court's Gobitis opinion and ordering that the salute to the flag become " a regular part of the program of activities in the public schools ," that all teachers and pupils " shall be required to participate in the salute honoring the Nation represented by the Flag ; provided, however, that refusal to salute the Flag be regarded as an Act of insubordination, and shall be dealt with accordingly.

The Vietnamese service, taken from the government-controlled channel VTV4, was protested against by the Vietnamese community, many of whom found the bulletin's portrayal of the communist Vietnamese flag and Ho Chi Minh offensive.

Once all four legs are off the ground, an official waves a flag marking the official end and a time is taken.

As soon as the steer is stretched out, an official waves a flag and the time is taken.

The flag has three red and white stripes, with the state coat of arms ( taken from the state seal ) on a blue field in the upper left corner.

If a ship then decided to resist, the Jolly Roger was taken down and a red flag was flown, indicating that the pirates intended to take the ship by force and without mercy.

In 1996 he was taken seriously ill but recovered. The Flag of Austria | Austrian flag flying at half-staff before the Austrian Parliament Building, due to the death of President Thomas Klestil, on July 7, 2004.

On 12 October, Major Thomas Evans ( the Brigade Major at Fort George ) crossed the Niagara River under a flag of truce to request an immediate exchange of prisoners taken in Elliot's raid on the British brigs three days before.

; Flag hinges: a flag hinge can be taken apart with a fixed pin on one leaf.

The Saarbrücken route was withdrawn at the end of the 1991 summer season, while the Amsterdam route was gradually taken over by NLM Cityhopper, the contemporary regional arm of Dutch flag carrier KLM.

Moldavian heraldist and vexillologist Silviu Andrieş-Tabac stated in an interview that in 1990, when the flag was being created, " it was taken into account that many countries have similar tricolor flags.

The flag is taken out of the building only on Victory Day and Rostov-on-Don Day by a guard of honor.

A similar flag was planted on each of the five subsequent successful Moon landing missions.

* The material of the U. S. flag that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin erected on the first visit to the Moon in 1969 was woven at Burlington Mills in Rhodhiss.

A high level committee determined that a plaque declaring that " We Came in Peace for all Mankind " and the planting of a U. S. flag on the Moon were to be part of the ceremonial activities for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface.

A large picture of Weldon putting what his office said was an American flag pin on Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, the head of Libya, was displayed when Weldon spoke at the Sun Myung Moon coronation ceremony.

On 14 November 2008, the Moon Impact Probe separated from the Chandrayaan orbiter at 20: 06 and struck the south pole in a controlled manner, making India the fourth country to place its flag on the Moon.

India is now the fourth nation to place a flag on the Moon after the Soviet Union, United States and Japan.

On the Moon, the cosmonaut would undertake moonwalks on foot and by Lunokhods, collecting rocks and plant the Soviet flag.

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.

The deposit of rupees to the account of the Government of the United States of America in payment for the commodities and for ocean transportation costs financed by the Government of the United States of America ( except excess costs resulting from the requirement that United States flag vessels be used ) shall be made at the rate of exchange for United States dollars generally applicable to import transactions ( excluding imports granted a preferential rate ) in effect on the dates of dollar disbursement by United States banks, or by the Government of the United States of America, as provided in the purchase authorizations.

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.

The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

Even the symbols of Bosnian statehood ( flag, coat of arms ) have been chosen by the Highest Representative rather than by the Bosnian people.

Mural by Bogside Artists on Free Derry Corner depicting Edward Daly ( bishop ) | Father Daly waving a White flag | white handkerchief while trying to escort the mortally wounded Jackie Duddy to safety.

This flag could then be used by a later jump instruction to determine program flow.

Harry later buries his friend, Albert, played by Michael Jayston, draped in a Charlton Athletic flag, to which Frank says, " hear that ?".

When this flag is turned on for a file ( which can be accomplished by a computer program or by a human user ), the file can be examined, but it cannot be modified.

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.

Some systems also include a hidden flag to make certain files invisible ; this flag is used by the computer system to hide essential system files that users should not alter.

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.

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.

To correct this inequity, the rank of commodore as a single star flag officer was reinstated by both services in the early 1980s.

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.

Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

An authoritative server indicates its status of supplying definitive answers, deemed authoritative, by setting a software flag ( a protocol structure bit ), called the Authoritative Answer ( AA ) bit in its responses.

* 1775 – The becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag ( the precursor to the Stars and Stripes ); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.