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.

It is sometimes called the " yellow jack " but this was also a name for yellow fever, which probably derives its common name from the flag, not the color of the victims ( cholera ships also used a yellow flag ).

The plain yellow flag (" Quebec " or Q in international maritime signal flags ), probably derives its letter symbol for its initial use in quarantine, but this flag in modern times indicates the opposite — a ship that declares itself free of quarantinable disease, and requests boarding and routine port inspection.

There is also a " Hunter " mode, in which a " prey " player with no weapons has to be hunted by the rest, and a capture the flag mode, which is probably the first first-person shooter incarnation of CTF.

The flag was probably never actually flown in colonial times, and is now used as an unofficial representative flag.

The Balinese Badung ( Puri Pamecutan ) royal banner also contains red and white element, their flag is red, white, and black that probably also derived from Majapahit origin.

Each tower has an additional watchtower turret, probably intended both for security and to allow the prominent display of the royal flag.

The flag most commonly identified as the Jolly Roger today is the skull and crossbones, a flag consisting of a human skull above two long bones ( probably femurs ) set in an x-mark arrangement on a black field.

The red-white-green tricolour is equal to the flag of Hungary although probably based on the symbolism of the Newfoundland Tricolour ( the Red representing England, the White Scotland and the Green for Ireland ).

The first official tricolore italiano, or Italian tricolour, was adopted on 7 January 1797, when the XIVth Parliament of the Cispadane Republic, on the proposal of deputy Giuseppe Compagnoni of Lugo, decreed " to make universal the ... standard or flag of three colours, green, white, and red ..." This was probably because the Legione Lombarda had carried banners of red, white ( from the flag of Milan ), and green ( from the uniform of the civic guard ), and the same colours were later adopted in the banners of the Legione Italiana, which was formed by soldiers coming from Emilia and Romagna.

Exact ratio of that flag is probably equal as at that time of Yugoslav flag, so it was 2: 3, although it was seen in many variations.

The earliest known evidence of this flag was recorded by Davies Gilbert in his 1838 work: ' The Parochial History of Cornwall ', where he gives reference to .." a white cross on a black ground was formerly the banner of St Perran and the Standard of Cornwall ; probably with some allusion to the black ore and the white metal of tin "

10-cent flag, 1965. 1-shilling stamp of 1965, used at Shinyanga probably in 1968.

He apparently arrived at Canton from Mauritius under the flag of the United States of America, probably to avoid the possibility of having his ship seized by the Chinese for payment of the debts owed them by the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste.

In 1864 John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem Barbara Frietchie, which told of a ( probably fictional ) incident in which Confederate soldiers were deterred from defacing an American flag.

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.

Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson made the Eureka flag a federal election campaign issue in 2004 saying " I think people have tried to make too much of the Eureka Stockade ... trying to give it a credibility and standing that it probably doesn't enjoy.

The flag has been intended to represent Europe in its wider sense.

Some complex flag designs are not intended for through and through implementation, requiring separate obverse and reverse sides if made correctly.

The Swedish military rank of fänrik ( and the corresponding cavalry rank of kornet ) was originally intended for the holder of the company flag.

Raeder's order that intended to avoid a repeat of the scuttling of the Admiral Graf von Spee read: " The German warship and her crew are to fight with their strength to the last shell, until they win or they go down with their flag flying.

It can be traced back to 1823 when it was created as a signal flag, never intended as a civil jack.

Originally intended as a badge of shame, the pink triangle ( often inverted from its Nazi usage ) has been reclaimed as an international symbol of gay pride and the gay rights movement, and is second in popularity only to the rainbow flag.

Within that period United States soldiers, while committing no offense, had been perfidiously attacked and inhumanly murdered in your streets ; no punishment had been awarded, and I believe, no arrests had been made for these atrocious crimes ; supplies of provisions intended for this garrison had been stopped ; the intention to capture this fort had been boldly proclaimed ; your most public thoroughfares were daily patrolled by large numbers of troops, armed and clothed, at least in part, with articles stolen from the United States ; and the Federal flag, while waving over the Federal offices, was cut down by some person wearing the uniform of a Maryland officer.

Except for the Seal of Missouri in its middle, the flag is identical with the Flag of the Netherlands ; this resemblance is not, however, intended to denote any special relation between Missouri and the Netherlands.

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.

Professor Paulo Araújo Duarte of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, bears this out, saying " In truth, the creators of our republican flag intended to represent the stars in the sky at Rio de Janeiro at 8: 30 in the morning on 15 November 1889, the moment at which the constellation of the Southern Cross was on the meridian of Rio de Janeiro and the longer arm the cross was vertical.

The Kansas state banner, which consisted of a large sunflower and the word " Kansas " on a blue field, was intended to be hung from a horizontal bar, rather than a vertical flag pole.

Though the anthem remained in place during these six months, a new flag was adopted and Rhodesia's national holidays, largely based around colonial figures and milestones, were replaced by alternatives intended to be more inclusive: President's Day, Unity Day and Ancestors Day.

The Red Cross — the inverse of the Swiss flag, the country of origin of the founder of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement — is not intended as a religious symbol, but is often perceived as such.

This proposed amendment was intended to give Congress the right to enact statutes criminalizing the burning or other desecration of the United States flag in a public protest.

One of the more notable scenes is a Terran Empire flag being planted on the moon, which may or may not be intended to be in 1969.

False flag operatives approached senior Chilean military officers, in " some two dozen contacts ", with the message that " the United States intended to cut military assistance to Chile unless they moved against Allende, and that the U. S. desired, and would actively support, a coup.

She is attributed with having knitted the flag that was intended to be used as the national emblem of Puerto Rico in its attempt to overthrow the Spanish government on the island, and to establish the island as a sovereign republic.

The UK government argued that the registration requirements were intended to ensure that fishing vessels flying the British flag had a genuine link with the UK.

It was intended to formulate a merchant shipbuilding program to design and build five hundred modern merchant cargo ships to replace the World War I vintage vessels that comprised the bulk of the United States Merchant Marine, and to administer a subsidy system authorized by the Act to offset the cost differential between building in the U. S. and operating ships under the American flag.

( 1 ) Where, in the opinion of the Officer Administering the Government, it is necessary to regulate and control the use of the Flag of Rhodesia in order that it is not used for purposes which, in his opinion, are improper he may make such regulations restricting, regulating or controlling the application to any goods or the importation into Rhodesia of any goods to which there has been applied a reproduction of the Flag of Rhodesia or of a flag which resembles or is intended to resemble the Flag of Rhodesia as he may consider to be necessary or expedient for the purpose.