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2. 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.

3. List of knots - Wikipedia

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   Magnus hitch (rolling hitch) – used to attach a rope to a rod, pole, or other rope; Manharness knot (artillery loop) – knot with a loop on the bight for non-critical purposes; Matthew Walker knot – decorative knot that is used to keep the end of a rope from fraying

4. Flag protocol - Wikipedia

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   A flag protocol (or flag code) is a set of rules and regulations for the display of flags within a country, including national, subnational, and foreign flags. Generally, flag protocols call for the national flag to be the most prominent flag (i.e, in the position of honor), flown highest and to its own right (the viewer's left) and for the flag to never touch the ground.

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

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   With a safety harness tightened and secured, a team of friends and family of David and his brother, Michael, began trekking up the stands and straddling a flag pole to raise over 200 flags around ...

6. Hitch (knot) - Wikipedia

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   A knot used to attach a rope to a rod, pole, or other rope. (See also Rolling hitch) Marline Hitching: A knot used to attach a rope to a cylindrical object. Similar in appearance to the Chain Hitch, but a succession of overhand knots. Marlinespike hitch: A temporary knot used to attach a rod to a rope in order to form a handle. Midshipman's hitch

7. Clout archery - Wikipedia

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   The scoring zones may be marked on the ground. Where this is not practical, a non-stretch rope or chain marked with the radii of the scoring zones is attached to the flag pole and swept around it to determine which arrows are in which zones. A designated person collects the arrows in each zone, sorts them into sets, and lays them on the ground.

8. Flag - Wikipedia

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   The current tallest flagpole in India (and the tallest flying the tricolour) is the 110-metre (360 ft) flagpole in Belgaum, Karnataka which was first hoisted on 12 March 2018. [45] [46] 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 68.5 m (225 ft) in ...

9. 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]