Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
International maritime signal flags. International maritime signal flags are various flags used to communicate with ships. The principal system of flags and associated codes is the International Code of Signals. [ 1] Various navies have flag systems with additional flags and codes, and other flags are used in special uses, or have historical ...
Flag icons for languages. Sightseeing tours near Lisbon in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch and Japanese. The use of flag icons, particularly national flags, for languages is a common practice. Such icons have long been used on tourist attraction signage, and elsewhere in the tourism space, but have found wider use ...
SPQR is also part of the coat of arms of the Capital Military Command of the Italian army (Italian: Comando Militare Capitale ). In business, in English-speaking countries, SPQR is sometimes (humorously) used to mean "Small Profits, Quick Returns", often by people who have studied Latin at school. [citation needed]
The national flag of Spain (Spanish: Bandera de España) [ a], as it is defined in the Constitution of 1978, consists of three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, the yellow stripe being twice the height of each red stripe. Traditionally, the middle stripe was defined by the more archaic term of gualda, and hence the popular name la ...
José María Morelos used a flag with an image of the Virgin to which was added a blue and white insignia with a crowned eagle on a cactus over a three-arched bridge and the letters V.V.M. (Viva la Virgen María – "long live the Virgin Mary"). [2] The Revolutionary Army also used a flag featuring the colors white, blue and red in vertical ...
The national flag of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Bandera de Costa Rica) is based on a design created in 1848 and consists of two blue stripes, two white stripes, and a central red stripe which is twice as wide as each of the other four. The civil flag omits the coat of arms seen on the state flag, since the state variant is only permitted to be used ...
A horizontal triband of light blue (top and bottom) and white (center). Designed by. Manuel Belgrano. The national flag of the Argentine Republic, often referred to as the Argentine flag ( Spanish: bandera argentina ), is a triband, composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blue and white. There are multiple interpretations ...
The national flag of Ecuador, which consists of horizontal bands of yellow (double width), blue and red, was first adopted by law in 1835 and later on 26 September 1860. The design of the current flag was finalized in 1900 with the addition of the coat of arms in the center of the flag. Before using the yellow, blue and red tricolor, Ecuador's ...