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War flag of Prussia (1816). The Black Cross (Schwarzes Kreuz) is the emblem used by the Prussian Army and Germany's army from 1871 to the present.It was designed on the occasion of the German Campaign of 1813, when Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia commissioned the Iron Cross as the first military decoration open to all ranks, including enlisted men.
Black Cross (Germany), military emblem of Prussia and Germany, derived from the cross used by the Teutonic order; Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist support organization; Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company, the successor of the Black Star Line "Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones)", a 1948 poem by Joseph Simon Newman, recorded by Lord Buckley ...
Black Cross Nurses (officially the Universal African Black Cross Nurses) is an international organization of nurses which was founded in 1920, based upon the model of the Red Cross. The organization was the women's auxiliary of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League and was established to provide health ...
The cursor for the Windows Command Prompt (appearing as an underscore at the end of the line). In most command-line interfaces or text editors, the text cursor, also known as a caret, [4] is an underscore, a solid rectangle, or a vertical line, which may be flashing or steady, indicating where text will be placed when entered (the insertion point).
Sizes were to be 400, 600 and 1000 mm. The arms were to have a length-to-width ratio of 1:4. Wing and fuselage crosses had a white border of 150mm. Photographs show that a significantly thinner border was still used on rudders, although it was also common for them to be painted entirely white and carry a plain black cross.
The black-on-white cross worn by the Teutonic Knights was granted by Innocent III in 1205. The coat of arms representing the grand master (Deutschmeisterwappen) [7] is shown with a golden cross fleury or cross potent superimposed on the black cross, with the imperial eagle as a central inescutcheon. The golden cross fleury overlaid on the black ...
The Silver Cross is not enameled or decorated in any manner except for engraving or relief. Russian Orthodox priests do not wear the cross by right of their priesthood, but only by permission of their bishop. One way a bishop may punish one of his priests is to forbid him to wear the priest's cross. The next-ranking award is the Gold Cross ...