War flag

A war flag, also known as a military flag or a battle flag, is a variant of a national flag for use by a country's military forces when on land. The nautical equivalent is a naval ensign, also known as a battle ensign. Under the strictest sense of the term, few countries today currently have proper war flags, most preferring to use instead their state flag or standard national flag for this purpose.

History

Field signs were used in early warfare at least since the Bronze Age. The word standard itself is from an Old Frankish term for a field sign (not necessarily a flag).

The use of flags as field signs apparently emerges in Asia, during the Iron Age, possibly in either China or India. Early field signs that include, but are not limited to a flag, are also called vexilloid or "flag-like", for example the Roman Eagle standard or the dragon standard of the Sarmatians. The Roman Vexillum itself is also "flag-like" in the sense that it was suspended from a horizontal crossbar as opposed to a simple flagpole.

Flag (disambiguation)

A flag is a colored cloth with a specified meaning.

Flag may also refer to:

Art and entertainment

  • Flag (anime), a 2006 series by Kazuo Terada
  • The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross, a 1927 silent short film
  • Foundation for Law And Government (FLAG), a fictitious law-enforcement agency in the TV series Knight Rider and sequels
  • Flag (note), a part of a note value in music notation
  • Flag, a band formed by former members of punk rock band Black Flag in 2013
  • Flag (James Taylor album), 1979
  • Flag (Yello album), 1988
  • Flags (Brooke Fraser album), a 2010 album by Brooke Fraser
  • Flags (Moraz and Bruford album)
  • The Flag (album), a 1986 album by Rick James
  • Flag (lighting), in film and photography, a device used to block light
  • The Flag (novel), a 1965 novel by Robert Shaw
  • Flag (painting), a 1954/1955 painting by American artist Jasper Johns
  • Biology

    Flag is the common name of several genera or species of flowering plants:

  • Flag iris (disambiguation) or just "flag", various species in North America
  • Flag (lighting)

    A flag is a device used in lighting for motion picture and still photography to block light. It can be used to cast a shadow, provide negative fill, or protect the lens from a flare. Its usage is generally dictated by the director of photography, but the responsibility for placing them can vary by region, usually devolving to either the gaffer and electricians or the key grip and lighting grips.

    Flags come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, from mere square inches ("dots and fingers") to many square feet ("meat axes"). Most "industry-standard" flags consist of a square wire frame stitched with black duvetyne, which minimizes any reflected light and keeps the flag lightweight. Flags are distinguished from larger light-cutting tools such as overhead rigs or butterflies in that they can be mounted on individual C-stands, as opposed to being affixed to collapsible frames.

    The above notwithstanding, given smaller budgets or extenuating circumstances, virtually any opaque object can be used to flag light.

    Flag (geometry)

    In (polyhedral) geometry, a flag is a sequence of faces of a polytope, each contained in the next, with just one face from each dimension.

    More formally, a flag ψ of an n-polytope is a set {F1, F0, ..., Fn} such that FiFi+1 (1 ≤ in  1) and there is precisely one Fi in ψ for each i, (1 ≤ in). Since, however, the minimal face F1 and the maximal face Fn must be in every flag, they are often omitted from the list of faces, as a shorthand. These latter two are called improper faces.

    For example, a flag of a polyhedron comprises one vertex, one edge incident to that vertex, and one polygonal face incident to both, plus the two improper faces. A flag of a polyhedron is sometimes called a "dart".

    A polytope may be regarded as regular if, and only if, its symmetry group is transitive on its flags. This definition excludes chiral polytopes.

    Incidence geometry

    In the more abstract setting of incidence geometry, which is a set having a symmetric and reflexive relation called incidence defined on its elements, a flag is a set of elements that are mutually incident. This level of abstraction generalizes both the polyhedral concept given above as well as the related flag concept from linear algebra.

    List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters

    The following is a list of main characters in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

    Main protagonists

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

    The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a team of mutant red-eared sliders named after four Renaissance artists and living in the sewers of New York City, where they train by day and fight crime by night as ninjas.

    Leonardo

    Leonardo is the tactical, courageous leader of the Ninja Turtles and a devoted student of Ninjutsu, usually wearing a blue mask and wielding two katanas.

    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo is the most comical of the Ninja Turtles, usually wearing an orange mask and wielding a pair of nunchucks.

    Donatello

    Donatello is the scientist, inventor, engineer and technological genius of the Ninja Turtles, usually wearing a purple mask and wielding a bo-staff.

    Raphael

    Raphael is the bad boy of the Ninja Turtles, wearing a red mask and wielding a pair of sais.

    Supporting characters

    Splinter

    Splinter is the mutant rat sensei and adoptive father of the Ninja Turtles, trained in Ninjutsu by his owner and master, Hamato Yoshi, in Japan.

    The Red Badge of Gayness

    "The Red Badge of Gayness" is episode 45 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on November 24, 1999.

    In the summer of 2013, fans voted "The Red Badge of Gayness" as the best episode of Season 3.

    The episode's name is a play on the Red Badge of Courage.

    Plot synopsis

    As the entire town of South Park is preparing to hold its annual American Civil War reenactment of the (fictional) Battle of Tamarack Hill, the children rehearse as a Union Army rally band.

    In the morning of the reenactment, Jimbo informs the reenactors that over 200 people will come to see them reenact the battle, setting a new record. He also takes the time to remind everyone that the primary sponsor of their event is Jagerminz S'more-flavored Schnapps, "the schnapps with the delightful taste of s'mores." In addition, the special guest will be Stan's grandpa, Marvin Marsh. Meanwhile, Cartman comes dressed as General Robert E. Lee, and the boys are outraged by his dressing as a Confederate officer. Evidently under the impression that the reenactment is a competition of some sort, Cartman bets that the South will win the Civil War, and if it does, Stan and Kyle will be his slaves for a month, or vice versa. Knowing that the outcome is supposed to be historical victory for the North as planned, Stan and Kyle eagerly accept the challenge.

    War (disambiguation)

    War is a large-scale armed conflict and the term is used as a metaphor for non-military conflicts.

    War or WAR may also refer to:

    Places

  • War, West Virginia
  • War Creek, a stream in West Virginia
  • West Antarctic Rift
  • Warwickshire county in England, standard code
  • Music

    Performers

  • War (band), an American 1970s funk band
  • War (Swedish band), a black metal band also known as Total War
  • Albums

  • War (Bolt Thrower album)
  • War (Born from Pain album)
  • War (U2 album)
  • War (War album), by the American band
  • W.A.R. (We Are Renegades), by American hip hop artist Pharoahe Monch
  • Songs

  • "War" (Bob Marley song)
  • "War" (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony song)
  • "War" (Edwin Starr song)
  • "War?", a song from the album System of a Down by the band of the same name
  • "War", by Bathory from Bathory
  • "War", by Burzum from Burzum
  • "War", by Devin Townsend from Infinity
  • "War", by Good Charlotte from Greatest Remixes
  • "War", by James Horner from Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture
  • "War", by Jay Sean from All or Nothing
  • "War", by Joe Satriani from The Extremist
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    War Flag

    by: AARON

    go to war little helmet
    make them proud
    say goodbye little helmet
    say it loud
    a crown for clowns
    don't be shy little helmet
    just a war
    catch a bullet little helmet
    you'll be a star
    muscles and lies flag all around
    don't know why I'm fallin down
    muscles and lies flag all around
    don't know why I'm fallin down
    mama had a little helmet
    was her pride
    lost in this world wide market
    scream it loud
    a crown for clowns




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