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.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

The resolution under discussion at the convention was to require the boards of election to instruct judges to properly display the American flag.

In the corner was the soldier with the white flag.

It was covered in the Confederate flag and laid in state for several hours.

He was buried just outside Greeneville – with his body wrapped in an American flag and a copy of the U. S. Constitution placed under his head, according to his wishes.

They also had a flag carrier at the front who guided the forces behind him ; when the flag was upright the combatants behind would stand and when turned down, they would sit.

On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.

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

the inclusion of the term " indivisible " in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag ); before this, the construction " the United States are " was more common.

This flag was also the battle flag of the Umkhonto we Sizwe.

In 2001, the National Guard unit was designated an official military unit of the Bulgarian army and one of the symbols of state authority, along with the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.

A flag was later erected near the spot the ball cleared the back wall, with simply the word " HERE " upon it.

Following the rapid change from a loose formation to a rigid line of battle both fleets raised their colours ; each British ship added additional Union Flags in its rigging in case its main flag was shot away.

U-27 was lying off Nicosians port quarter and firing into it when Baralong appeared on the scene, flying the ensign of the United States as a false flag.

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

U-41 was in the process of sinking SS Urbino with gunfire when Baralong arrived on the scene, flying an American flag.

In his account he described how “ on one side there was a wooden stage with two streamers – Hatuey beer and Bacardí rum – on each end and a Cuban flag in the middle.

The first retired number flag, Ernie Banks ' number 14, was raised on the left field pole, and they have alternated since then.

The exact derivation of the term is unknown, but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.

The figure leapt from the box, almost lost its balance, the flag draped there tore in the air, the figure landed on its left leg, fell on its hands, and pressed itself up.

You could wave a different flag, and choose another face paint, and nothing would be lost.

* Saint Piran ' rediscovered ' tin-smelting ( tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans ' arrival, but the methods had since been lost ) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross ( thus the image on the flag ).

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

The main reason was that with the creation of the Greek state, its fleet lost the privileges which the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca and the use of the Russian flag gave it.

De Ruyter, more anxious than at any other moment in the battle and fearing the fight lost, raised the red flag and sailed past Rupert to attack Monck from behind.

Since 1949, the flag is mostly used within Taiwan where the Republic of China relocated after having lost the Chinese Civil War to the Communists.

The origin of the pirate flag has been lost.

" After the fall of the Habsburg monarchy Croatia became part of the unitary Kingdom of SCS ( 1918 )-and lost right to use the Croatian tricolour as a state flag.

At Fright Fight, Van Dam lost to Dreamer in a flag match.

Unfortunately for French monarchism, Chambord's refusal to accept the Tricolor as the flag of France and to abandon the fleur-de-lys, symbol of the Ancien régime, made restoration impossible until after his death in 1883, by which time the monarchists had long since lost their parliamentary majority due to the 16 May 1877 crisis.

By the 19th century, the Norman Yoke lost whatever historical significance it may have had and was no longer a ' red flag ' in political debate.

The flag was granted official status in 1959, but the red dragon itself has been associated with Wales for centuries, though the origin of the adoption of the dragon symbol is now lost in history and myth.

Though the original flag itself is now lost, it was described as navy blue, defaced with a golden sun ( possibly representing Inti ).

Meanwhile Thésée lost her duel with HMS Torbay and foundered, Superbe capsized, and the badly damaged Héros struck her flag to Viscount Howe before running aground on the Four Shoal during the night.

This flag was flown in the defense of a new fortress on Sullivan's Island, when Moultrie faced off against a British fleet that hadn't lost a battle in a century.

Interflug ( shortened form of Internationaler Flug, " international flight ") was founded in 1958 as a second East German airline to operate charter flights, so in 1963 when the Lufthansa name was lost, Interflug provided its identity for East Germany's " new " flag carrier.

After a year's convalescent leave, having lost her eye among other damages in the engagements in Yeltsin in defense of Grayson, she was given the newly commissioned state-of-the-art Battlecruiser Nike and made flag captain of a new squadron, both professional plums demonstrating the high regard she'd earned in her first navy, before again encountering Captain Pavel Young — whose career was decidedly going the other direction.

Some CPUs move the last bit shifted off the end of a number during a shift into the carry flag during some or all shift operations ; since the bit bucket is usually considered the place where discarded ( and therefore lost ) bits go, the carry flag in this case would probably be excluded from the bit bucket — unless, perhaps, the speaker intended to ignore the bit saved in the carry flag and treat it as though it had been truly discarded.

Points are lost by killing somebody who does not have the flag.

The flag however was eventually lost, leading U. S. Consul, General Dayle C McDonough to present a new one during Newmilns ' Civic Week celebrations in 1949.

The Eureka flag was lost to general public imagination until after World War II when, for mainly political reasons it was re-discovered and promoted as a " rebel " symbol ; in the 1949 movie Eureka Stockade starring Chips Rafferty, the flag featured was, in technical terms, the fly half of the Australian National Flag.