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  2. Banner - Wikipedia

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    Banners of Knights of the Thistle displayed in St Giles' Cathedral. A banner can be a flag or another piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or another message. A flag whose design is the same as the shield in a coat of arms (but usually in a square or rectangular shape) is called a banner of arms.

  3. Stanchion - Wikipedia

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    Stanchions and velvet rope. A stanchion (/ ˈ s t æ n tʃ ən /) is a sturdy upright fixture that provides support for some other object. [1] It can be a permanent fixture. In nautical terms, the stanchion is the thick and high iron that with others equal or similar is placed vertically on the gunwale, stern and tops.

  4. Wikipedia:Avoiding banners - Wikipedia

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    The core strategy is to try to remove many banners from pages, and to widen the most-common boxes. There are so many banner boxes, the solutions must be geared to those boxes which are seen most often (optimize by 80/20 Rule): fix the "20%" of banners seen in 80% of articles. There are several methods: Collapse/hide numerous talk-page banners.

  5. Retractable roof - Wikipedia

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    A retractable roof is a roof system designed to roll back the roof of a structure so that the interior of the facility is open to the outdoors. [1] Retractable roofs are sometimes referred to as operable roofs or retractable skylights. The term operable skylight, while quite similar, refers to a skylight that opens on a hinge, rather than on a ...

  6. Retractable hardtop - Wikipedia

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    Closing of the retractable hardtop of a BMW 3-series (E93) Retractable hardtops are commonly made from between two and five sections of metal or plastic and often rely on complex dual-hinged trunk/boot lids that enable the trunk lid to both receive the retracting top from the front and also receive parcels or luggage from the rear. The trunk ...

  7. banner (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    The character fonts used are hardwired into the program code itself, as statically initialized data structures. Two data structures are used. The first is a data table comprising a sequence of printing instructions that encode the bitmap for each character (in an encoding specific to the banner program). The second is an index into that table ...