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2. Inglefield clip - Wikipedia

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   Inglefield clips, from a Royal Navy handbook of 1943 Two brass Inglefield clips connected (a standard clip on the left and a swivel clip on the right).. The Inglefield clip (also known as a sister clip [1] and a Brummel hook [2]) is a clip for joining a flag or ensign quickly, easily and securely to flag halyards so that the flag can be hoisted. [3]

3. Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield - Wikipedia

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   He gave his name to the Inglefield clip, a device he patented in 1890 for quickly attaching signal flags. ... On 1 September 1888 he was appointed the flag lieutenant ...

4. Glossary of vexillology - Wikipedia

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   The half or edge of a flag farthest away from the flagpole. This term also sometimes refers to the horizontal length of a flag. Heading. Main article: Flag § Hoisting the flag. A piece of loose fabric running along the hoist for attaching a flag to its rope. Hoist The half or edge of a flag nearest to the flagpole.

5. Flagpole - Wikipedia

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   A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The flag is fixed to one lower end of the cord, and is then raised by pulling on the other end.

6. The Soiling of Old Glory - Wikipedia

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   It depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black man—lawyer and civil rights activist Ted Landsmark—with a flagpole bearing the American flag (also known as Old Glory). The image was taken for the Boston Herald American in Boston , Massachusetts , on April 5, 1976, during one in a series of protests against court-ordered ...

7. Raising the flags: A family tradition kept alive in the Pool ...

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   The green, white, passing, checker, red, black and yellow flags that surround the two-and-a-half-mile-long track have been raised by the same family since the early 1970s.