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Qatar breaks record for world's largest flag". BBC. December 17, 2013 . Retrieved December 17, 2013. Reading Corner Banner | Personalised Reading Corner Sign | Playroom Sign | Nursery Children's Room Wall Hanging | Canvas Banner In this example there are two rows of flags and the line between them is straight. It is, however, possible to create many more rows of flags and the line between them can be angled. Experiment! Mozambique: Parliament Keeps Gun In National Flag". New York Times. 2005-12-20 . Retrieved 2007-11-14.

Some of these political flags have become national flags, such as the red flag of the Soviet Union and national socialist banners for Nazi Germany. The present Flag of Portugal is based on what had been the political flag of the Portuguese Republican Party previous to the 5 October 1910 revolution which brought this party to power. The vertical flag for hoisting from a beam (German: Auslegerflagge or Galgenflagge; no. 3) is additionally attached to a horizontal beam, ensuring that it is fully displayed even if there is no wind. [22] [25] A number of Flagg’s books have been bestselling, while her script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award–whilst winning the prestigious Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. Smith, Whitney. "Flag of the United States of America". Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 2019-05-24.In Gaelic football and Hurling a green flag is used to indicate a goal while a white flag is used to indicate a point Weyandt, Janet (25 May 2014). "High-flying: Up in time for Memorial Day, Acuity flag is world's tallest". The Sheboygan Press. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 26 May 2014. For many who go to sea, flag etiquette and flag rules are an essential part of the overall sailing process. Only with the right flag, correctly positioned, can you to be sure that you are giving the correct message and that any signal you are giving is clear. For RYA members Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise. Dwajasthambam are flagpoles commonly found at the entrances of South Indian Hindu temples. [30] Record heights The former flagpole in Kew Gardens, taken shortly before its removal in 2007

We’ll then show you the other fascinating ways flags are used throughout the world. Learn the International Code of Flag Symbols to communicate with ships at sea; read about flags used in sports, like Formula 1’s chequered flag; marvel at flags commemorating world records and incredible human achievements; and peer with a microscope at the planet’s smallest flag, which is no wider than a human hair. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. If you have enough excess accordion paper, you can choose to skip this step. However, I think it makes a more complete looking book, and it will give your accordion a stronger hold on the cover.am i currently going through a phase where i want to learn every flag and capital for no reason just as a side project even though i’m 17 and better than that? yes. did i see this book in the children’s section of the library and think that it looked embarrassingly good and got it out on a whim? yes. did i read it all at once and so hard i now have a callus on my hand? yeah 😞 is it marketed to nine year olds? yes! was it good? yes!!! Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up living a life so different from the one she dreamed of as a child. But just when things seem completely hopeless, and the secrets of Maggie’s past drive her to a radical plan to solve it all, Maggie discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems, has at least one little secret. The current tallest flagpole in India (and the tallest flying the tricolour) is the 110-metre (360ft) flagpole in Belgaum, Karnataka which was first hoisted on 12 March 2018. [35] [36] The tallest flagpole in the United Kingdom from 1959 until 2013 stood in Kew Gardens. It was made from a Canadian Douglas-fir tree and was 68.5m (225ft) in height. [37] Hakemi, Ali; Archeologiche, Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente Centro Scavi e Ricerche (12 December 1997). Shahdad: archaeological excavations of a bronze age center in Iran. IsMEO. ISBN 9788120410176– via Google Books. Tallest flag in India: Country's tallest tricolour to be hoisted in Belagavi". The Times of India. Mar 12, 2018 . Retrieved 6 July 2019.

Main article: History of flags Bronze flag Derafsh Shahdad found in Shahdad, Iran, third millennium BC

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For safety, dive flags indicate the locations of underwater scuba divers or that diving operations are being conducted in the vicinity.

In addition, fans of almost all sports wave flags in the stands to indicate their support for the participants. Many sports teams have their own flags, and, in individual sports, fans will indicate their support for a player by waving the flag of his or her home country. United Nations members' national flags Setting up a flag could also possess the meaning of conquering something. Jaan Künnap with the flag of Estonia at the top of Lenin Peak (7,134m [23,406 feet]) in 1989. In American and Canadian football, referees use penalty flags to indicate that a foul has been committed in game play. The phrase used for such an indication is flag on the play. The flag itself is a small, weighted handkerchief, tossed on the field at the approximate point of the infraction; the intent is usually to sort out the details after the current play from scrimmage has concluded. In American football, the flag is yellow; in Canadian football the flag is orange, but at the professional level the flag is yellow. In both the Canadian Football League and National Football League, coaches also use red challenge flags to indicate that they wish to contest a ruling on the field.During the peak of the sailing age, beginning in the early 17th century, it was customary (and later a legal requirement) for ships to fly flags designating their nationality; [10] these flags eventually evolved into the national flags and maritime flags of today. Flags also became the preferred means of communications at sea, resulting in various systems of flag signals; see, International maritime signal flags. Main article: National flag Flags at half-mast outside Central Plaza, Hong Kong, after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The Flag of Saudi Arabia is exempted. Tribal flags at Meeting Place Monument/Flag Plaza at the Oklahoma State Capitol German Federal Ministry of the Interior: Hissflagge Archived 2012-09-08 at archive.today, accessed 20 February 2012 Ships with vexilloids were represented on predynastic Egyptian pottery c. 3500 BCE. [3] In antiquity, field signs that can be categorised as vexilloid or "flag-like" were used in warfare, originating in ancient Egypt or Assyria. [4] Examples include the Sassanid battle standard Derafsh Kaviani, and the standards of the Roman legions such as the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion and the dragon standard of the Sarmatians; the latter was allowed to fly freely in the wind, carried by a horseman, but depictions suggest that it bore more similarity to an elongated dragon kite than to a simple flag. A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and flags have evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling and identification, especially in environments where communication is challenging (such as the maritime environment, where semaphore is used). Many flags fall into groups of similar designs called flag families. [1] The study of flags is known as " vexillology" from the Latin vexillum, meaning "flag" or " banner".