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The table shows the commonly used wigwag code and the diagram shows the flag motions. [4] It is as defined in the General Service Code of July 1864 issued to standardize signals of the US Army and Navy. [5] Further details of the code and an alternate four-symbol representation are given in § Code details
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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In the case of Gisele Pelicot's mass rape trial in France, dozens of men, including her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot, were found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting her.