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The flag was so hoisted that in the instant it reached its place the report of the big gun of the Ossipee reverberated from the mountains around ... Captain Pestchouroff stepped up to me and said, ' General Rousseau, by authority from his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, I transfer to the United States the Territory of Alaska ' and in a few words I acknowledged the acceptance of the transfer, and the ceremony was at an end.
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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.
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As so often is the case after a flag, the following two years were below standard.
During WW2 the pro-nazi NSB used it, so using that version today would be the same as hoisting the red swastika flag.
Some nations imitated this flag so as to symbolize their similarity to the United States and / or the American Revolution.
* Heraldic flag, for banners, standards, pennon and so forth
The team members carried the Sealand flag in the 2007 DI Global Finals Opening Ceremony and plan to do so again at the 2008 event.
During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists.
This duty is so prestigious that the color is generally carried by a young officer ( Ensign ), while experienced non-commissioned officers ( Colour sergeants ) are assigned to the protection of the flag.
Nazi ensigns had a through and through image, so both versions were present, one on each side, but the Nazi flag on land was right-facing on both sides and at a 45 ° rotation.
However, note that depending on the language and the function, NaNs can silently be removed in expressions that would give a constant result for all other floating-point values e. g. NaN ^ 0, which may be defined as 1, so in general a later test for a set INVALID flag is needed to detect all cases where NaNs are introduced ( see section Function definition below for further details ).
Professor de la Paz asks Mannie to assure that Luna adopts a flag consisting of a brass cannon over a red bar on a black background with stars, " a symbol for all fools who are so impractical as to think they can fight City Hall ".
" James Upham " felt that a flag should be on every schoolhouse ", so the publication " fostered a plan of selling flags to schools through the children themselves at cost, which was so successful that 25, 000 schools acquired flags in 1 year.
As the World's Columbian Exposition ( a. k. a. Chicago World's Fair ) was set to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival at the America's, Upham sought to link the publication's drive to the event, " so that every school in the land ... would have a flag raising, under the most impressive conditions.
It is a possibility that by entering the race track she was trying to attach a flag to Anmer, the horse owned by King George V, so that when the horse crossed the finishing line, it would be flying the WSPU flag.
Second, unlike the American flag, the outermost stripes are white, not red ; so as not to violate the heraldic rule of tincture.
Since transmission of a single character may take a long time relative to CPU speeds, the UART will maintain a flag showing busy status so that the host system does not deposit a new character for transmission until the previous one has been completed ; this may also be done with an interrupt.
This is called " Early Change "; it caused so much confusion that Adobe now allows both versions in PDF files, but includes an explicit flag in the header of each LZW-compressed stream to indicate whether Early Change is being used.
Although many were hesitant to show such blatant support as the hanging of the national flag from windows, as the team progressed through the tournament, so too did the level of support across the nation.
This also ( assuming NRZI with transition for 0 encoding of the output ) provides a minimum of one transition per 6 bit times during transmission of data, and one transition per 7 bit times during transmission of flag, so the receiver can stay in sync with the transmitter.
The hoisting should be timed so the flag reaches the top of the pole as the national anthem ends.
The flag is raised in a solemn and timed motion so that it reaches the top of the flagpole as the anthem ends.
When Musella became a flag stop, the railroad offered better opportunities for farmers to market their products, so many of the residents of nearby Ceres, Georgia, ( named after Roman goddess of agriculture ; settlement also called Hopewell ) migrated to Musella.
In addition, Austrian authorities saw all tricolours as basically nationalist and potentially revolutionary symbols, so Austrian provinces ( as the Empire itself ) were only allowed to use bicolours ( the only exception being the flag of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, since it was interpreted to be a combination of the Croatian and Slavonian bicolours ).
A huge flag was used that day to collect a reported $ 50, 000 for construction of a local “ Klan hospital ” so that Klan members would not have to be treated at the only local hospital, which was Catholic.
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