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A truck is a wooden ball, disk, or bun-shaped cap at the top of a mast, with holes in it through which flag halyards are passed. [1] Trucks are also used on wooden flagpoles, to prevent them from splitting. [citation needed] Without a masthead truck, water could easily seep into the circular growth rings of a wooden mast.
The flag is fixed to one lower end of the cord, and is then raised by pulling on the other end. The cord is then tightened and tied to the pole at the bottom. The pole is usually topped by a flat plate or ball called a "truck" (originally meant to keep a wooden pole from splitting) or a finial in a more complex shape.
Truck Night in America (known outside of the US as Monster Motor Challenge) is a History Channel program that debuted in 2018. [ 2 ] The show features five contestants per episode competing through a series of races with eliminations after each event.
The recovery came as a result of a lead gathered following the airing of the History Channel's Brad Meltzer's Lost History in 2014. A number of scientists have now verified that the flag is authentic, and it was unveiled on Sunday, September 11, 2016, the 15th anniversary of 9/11, on a History Channel special on the flag, America's 9/11 Flag ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -A U.S. Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck swerved around makeshift barriers and plowed into New Orleans' crowded French Quarter on New Year's Day, killing 15 ...
According to one account, Kelly climbed his first pole at the age of seven, and at nine he performed a "human fly" trick, climbing up the side of a building. [1]He is credited with popularizing the pole-sitting fad after sitting atop a flagpole in 1924, either in response to a dare from a friend [7] or as a publicity stunt to draw customers to a Philadelphia department store. [8]
The man suspected of plowing a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's, killing 14 people and injuring 35 others, pledged his support to ISIS, the FBI said Thursday. The ...
The material used for the new flagpole is Q345 steel. The steel and two cranes of the flag pole were both imported from Hong Kong. [1] The flagpole's construction took less than a month and was finished in September 2013. [5] The newer flagpole was divided into three segments. The old flagpole was moved to the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite. [4]