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2. Color guard (flag spinning) - Wikipedia

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   Flags frequently have weights -generally 1 in. carriage bolts or the like- in the bottom and top of the pole to make it easier to toss the flag into the air. However, even with the weights, weather conditions such as wind and rain can affect a flag's spin and disrupt a toss if not correctly taken into account.

3. Flag signals - Wikipedia

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   Flags may have individual significance as signals, or two or more flags may be manipulated so that their relative positions convey symbols. Flag signals allowed communication at a distance before the invention of radio and are still used especially in connection with ships.

4. Naval flag signalling - Wikipedia

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   Naval flag signalling undoubtedly developed in antiquity in order to coordinate naval action of multiple vessels. In the Peloponnesian War (431 – 401 BCE) squadrons of Athenian galleys were described by Thucydides as engaging in coordinated maneuvers which would have required some kind of communication; [1] there is no record of how such communication was done but flags would have been the ...

5. Wigwag (flag signals) - Wikipedia

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   The black flag was used against a background of snow. [16] The two foot flags, called action flags, were used in situations where the signalman needed to stay under cover from enemy fire or wished to signal less obtrusively. [17] Each flag had a number of ties or tapes sewn along the hoist edge.

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7. Banner (Australian rules football) - Wikipedia

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   Typically, cheer squad members held the poles. With poles being used, the creation of the race was no longer limited to the size of the players race, and they became incrementally larger throughout the late 1960s. Words and messages first appeared on the race sometime between 1966 and 1970.

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   Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #553 on Sunday, December 15, 2024. Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Sunday, December 15, 2024 The New York Times

9. Sherrone Moore does flag-planting gesture at Michigan ... - AOL

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   Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore pumped up the Crisler Center crowd on Saturday with a flag-plant gesture, one week after the Wolverines beat Ohio State. Attending a Wolverines men's ...