For example the Italian flag code expressly replaces the Italian flag for the European flag in precedence when dignitaries from other EU countries visit – for example the EU flag would be in the middle of a group of three flags rather than the Italian flag.

At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.

* The flag of Venezuela, created by Francisco de Miranda to represent the independence movement in Venezuela that later gave birth to the " Gran Colombia ", inspired the flags of Colombia and Ecuador, both sharing three bands of yellow, blue and red with the flag of Venezuela.

* June 2007: the designated nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party complained about an artist's rendering of IKEA Belfast that included both the Union Flag and the Ulster Banner flag as two of the three flags in front of the store.

The three referees vote for victor by each raising one of their respective flags simultaneously.

In practice, many countries ( such as the United States and the United Kingdom ) have identical flags for these three purposes ; national flag is sometimes used as a vexillological term to refer to such a three-purpose flag ( 23px ).

As with the national flags, there are three varieties: the civil ensign ( 23px ), flown by private vessels ; state ensigns ( also called government ensigns ; 23px ), flown by government ships ; and war ensigns ( also called naval ensigns ; 23px ), flown by naval vessels.

There are three color combinations that are used on several flags in certain regions.

The former South African prime minister and architect of apartheid, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, had a dream to change the then-current flag of South Africa, remove the three small flags in its center ( he objected especially to the British Union Flag being there ) and replace them with a leaping springbok antelope over a wreath of six proteas.

Exhibits include photographs from the three years stay of the Serbians in Corfu, together with other exhibits such as uniforms, arms and ammunition of the Serbian army, Serbian regimental flags, religious artifacts, surgical tools and other decorations of the Kingdom of Serbia.

Representations of all three may be found at List of British flags.

The Japanese embassy in Berlin clad in the flags of the three signatories of the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.

She and her husband were booed by a crowd of two to three thousand people brandishing sticks and black flags.

French / Irishman Luke Ryan and his lieutenants in just over two years commanded six vessels under the flags of three different nations and on opposite sides in the same war.

It is a subset of the much older International Code of Signals ( INTERCO ), which originally included visual signals by flags or flashing light, sound signals by whistle, siren, foghorn, or bell, as well as one, two, or three letter codes for many phrases.

* Hetty Cary ( 1836 – 1892 ), known for making the first three battle flags of the Confederacy

School officials vowed to discipline the three students with suspension or expulsion, tighten security, and ban Confederate flags on school property, and six of the students were charged with disorderly conduct.

Confederate ladies visiting Beauregard's army contributed silk material from their dresses to create the first three flags, for Beauregard, Johnston, and Earl Van Dorn ; thus, the first flags contained more feminine pink than martial red.

The three flags flown daily above the parade ground symbolize the nations which have held Fort Niagara.

There are also drop-frame and color framing flags and three extra ' binary group flag ' bits used for defining the use of the user bits.

He is known as the soldier who fought under three flags: Finnish, German ( when he fought the Soviets in World War II ) and American ( where he was known as Larry Thorne ) when he served in U. S. Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War.

An image of three Republic of China flags, including the " Five-coloured flag " ( centre ), the army flag ( left ) and Sun Yat-sen's flag, the flag currently in use.

There were only three flag designs adopted, with later, minor variants made to those designs, that served as the official national flags of the Confederate States of America and used during its existence from 1861 to 1865.

Some national flags have been particularly inspirational to other nations, countries, or subnational entities in the design of their own flags.

Their visit to the Pacific Northwest, maps, and proclamations of sovereignty with medals and flags were legal steps needed to claim title to each indigenous nations ' lands under the Doctrine of Discovery.

During the memorial service, the Olympic Flag was flown at half-mast, along with the flags of most of the other competing nations at the request of Willy Brandt.

Ten Arab nations objected to their flags being lowered to honor murdered Israelis ; their flags were restored to the tops of their flagpoles almost immediately.

During his reign the flags of Yugoslav nations were banned.

The monument consists of a granite disk embedded with a smaller bronze disk around the point, surrounded by smaller, appropriately located state seals and flags representing both the states and tribal nations of the area.

Starting at 2: 00 p. m., Expo Commissioner General Pierre Dupuy officiated over the medal ceremony, in which participating nations and organizations received gold and silver medallions, as well as the ceremony in which national flags were lowered in the reverse order to which they had been raised, with Canada's flag lowered first and Nigeria's lowered last.

Earth meanwhile increasingly falls under the control of transnational corporations ( TransNats ) that come to dominate its governments, particularly smaller nations adopted as " flags of convenience " for extending their influence into Martian affairs.

The entrance to the park has a globe that resembles the Unisphere with " Universal Studios " on it ( although Universal Studios began using the globe as its logo decades earlier ), and an area of the park called " World Expo " that features world music and flags of many nations.

Known as the " Isle of 8 Flags ", it has had the flags of the following nations flown over it since 1562: France, Spain, Great Britain, Spain ( again ), the Patriots of Amelia Island, the Green Cross of Florida, Mexico, the Confederate States of America, and the United States.

( 3 ) The flags of other nations are placed after the Estonian Flag alphabetically according to their French name.

Despite this mixed history, many Islamic nations and charities use the crescent symbol on their flags or logos ( e. g. Turkey, The Red Crescent, etc.

Multi-lingual pamphlets depicted many Asians marching or working together in happy unity, with the flags of all the nations and a map depicting the intended sphere.

The name refers to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America.

* Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bhutan, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Germany, Malaysia, the Philippines Spain, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Vietnam are examples of modern nations that use the color golden in their national flags.

Green, gold and red are now found on the national flags of many African nations, most notably in the bloom on the flag of Granada, the Moorish state in Spain.

It was hoped by Moscow that the non-Russian nations would remain within the USSR despite the removal of restrictions on freedom of speech and national icons ( such as the local pre-1940 flags ).

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander in chief of the Allied Armies in North Africa, and General Henri Honoré Giraud, commanding the French Forces, saluting the flags of both nations at Allied headquarters.

The colors of the rings can be found on all the flags PASO member nations.

These three colors, symbolising freedom and revolutionary ideals, are also used on the flags of many non-Slavic nations.