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	Dictionary of Vexillology: C (Class Flag - Conducting Colours)
		A small triangular flag designed to be hung vertically usually charged with the emblem and livery colours of a sporting club (see also ‘livery colours’, ’pennant 2’ and ‘souvenir flags’).
		Please note that the self-adopted flags of various non-governmental or semi-governmental organizations, whilst often being given the reverence and treatment normally shown to an officially awarded colour, are strictly speaking parade flags and not colours.
		The first type of colour is generally (but not invariably) based on the design of the national flag, and in a few cases (such as in the British and Canadian regiments of foot guards) it is the regimental colour that derives from the design of the national flag.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/vxt-dvc2.html (0 words)

	Dictionary of Vexillology: T (Tab - Type Flag)
		It should be noted also however, that the practice of tying a parade flag or military colour to its staff, or affixing it with metal rings, is not entirely obsolete (see also ‘ties’).
		An oval-shaped wood or plastic cross-piece attached to a hoist-line sewn into the heading of a flag, that fastens to a becket or eyesplice at the upper end of the halyard for hoisting the flag on a mast or pole (see also ‘becket’, ‘halyard’, ‘heading’, ‘hoistline’ plus ‘running eye and toggle’).
		Please note that a tribal flag may also be a political flag under certain circumstances, and that some tribal flags may be considered as national flags dependent upon the legal status and/or ambitions of the tribal group concerned.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/vxt-dv-t.html (0 words)

	National Flag of Canada - Colour Specifications
		When reproducing the flag red at 100%, the closest colour from the pantone colour specifier is PMS032.
		When the flag red is used to reproduce screens, it is advisable to take PMS485 as this one maintains the integrity of the orange colour in the flag.
		The paint colours are FIP red 509-211, and white: 513-201.
	www.pch.gc.ca /progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/df11_e.cfm (218 words)

	Colours
		The use of flags, or Colours, in the Canadian Army today is purely ceremonial, however their importance to the morale and espirit de corps of individual Regiments of Infantry cannot be underestimated.
		Each colour was to be decorated with Roman numerals in gold, either painted or embroidered, indicating the Rank of the Regiment, within a wreath of Roses and Thistles on the same stalk (representing the Union of Scotland and England) on a scarlet field.
		In 1917 the battalion was authorized to have a "battle flag", in red with a white circle bearing the distinguishing patches as worn on the uniform sleeves upon it.
	www.calgaryhighlanders.com /colours.htm (2267 words)

	Lithuania
		The ratio of the width and length of the flag is 1 to 2.
		Soon the flag was legalized: first, recognized as the national and later as the state flag on November 18, 1988, and on June 26, 1991 (the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania law " On the state flag of the Republic of Lithuania").
		The colours of the flag (yellow approximating orange, a rich green, and red approximating purple) were recreated according to flags of the Independent Republic of Lithuania which had been preserved by museums and private individuals.
	www.fotw.us /flags/lt.html (2960 words)

	Defenceindia : Evolution of Military Flags of Modern India
		It stated that "the first colour of each battalion shall be great union throughout and the second, the colour of the facing of the regiment; except those regiments which were faced with fl, which shall have a white field with the union in the upper canton.
		In this year, the Army flag was introduced and the rules governing its use and display declared the existing patterns of Principal/Staff Officers' flag obsolete and introduced a new scarlet flag with Army crest superimposed on it.
		The flag of the Chief of the Air Staff is now a sky blue rectangular representing the national flag in the first quarter, the Air Force crest in the third quarter and the Air Force target in the fourth quarter.
	www.defenceindia.com /defenceind/military_flags_modern.html (3151 words)

	The Colour Bearer
		A units flag served an important tactical function as in spite of the major advances in weaponry during the first years of the war battles were fought according to the rigid discipline of linear deployment used in the Napoleonic Wars.
		These flags were carried by the colour sergeant and protected by the colour guard, a group of up to a dozen soldiers whose responsibility it was to ensure the safety of the flags.
		F/ At Cedar Mountain the fate of the colours of the 21st Virginia typifies the danger to the colour guard: the “colour bearer knocked down a Yankee with his flagstaff, and was shot to death at once.” ”One of the colour guard took the flag, and he also was killed; another....
	home.freeuk.com /gazkhan/colour_bearer.htm (1219 words)

	The Flag of Saint Lucia
		When the flags of two or more nations are displayed together they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height and all the flags should be, as far as possible, of the same size.
		When carried with another flag the Flag of Saint Lucia should be held on the marching right or in front of the centre of the line of flags.
		When the Flag is passing in a parade or in a review or during the ceremony of hoisting or lowering the Flag, all persons present should face the Flag and stand at attention.
	www.stlucia.gov.lc /saint_lucia/the_flag_of_saint_lucia.htm (1083 words)

	Vexillology - Alternative History
		Coloured Field: The flag is put in canton (part of the flag closest to the top of the pole) and different colours and defacement on the rest of the flag indicate whom it represent.
		Unlike the national flags, you can probably have design that are more busy as long as their primary function is not to give a quick identification of the person (officers ones should be simple, minsters don't need to).
		National flag: some countries have a de facto positional flag for their head of state in that he is the only one allowed to use the national flag as a car flag.
	althistory.wikia.com /wiki/Vexillology (2955 words)

	Flags for components of the Indian Army
		The IEME also carry a corps colour, granted in 1964, that is yellow with the corps badge on a blue disk surrounded by a lotus and ashoka wreath.
		Indian regimental colors are similar to British ones (even down to the same measurements), with a solid field in the facing color and a badge on the center ensigned with the three-lion badge of Ashoka (the national "arms"), and surrounded by a wreath of lotus blossoms and scrolls bearing battle honors.
		Colour flag is 2' x 3' with flag mast 15' high; flag is 4' x 6' with flag mast 20' high or more.
	www.fotw.net /flags/in^armc.html (1283 words)

	United Kingdom
		The UK flag consists of three elements: the cross of St. George (red on white) for England, the cross of St. Andrew (white diagonal on blue) for Scotland, and the so-called cross of St. Patrick (red diagonal on white) for Ireland.
		The Pantone colours (186 for the red and 280 for blue) are the official ones for the Union Flag and all UK derivatives (Bartram 2004).
		This flag seems to be used not as a replacement for the Rainbow flag which remains popular but as an additional emblem.
	www.fotw.net /flags/gb.html (3441 words)

	Flags and banners. The Flag Shop - Canada's leading flag retailer. Flags, banners, Canadian, provincial flags and ...
		The distinguishing flag of a commercial firm, flown especially at sea; sometimes used in reference to the personal flag of the owner of a yacht or home.
		A method of hoisting a flag by means of a rope sewn into its heading, which has a wooden toggle at the top and a loop of rope at the bottom that fasten to their opposites at the ends of the halyard.
		A tube of material along the hoist of a flag through which the staff is inserted, used especially for a parade flag or colour.
	www.flagshop.com /flag_gloss.html (685 words)

	Colour Animations for Colour Mobile Phones
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	www.polyphonic-ringtones-ring-tones.co.uk /colour-animations-flags.html (218 words)

	The World Flag Database: What's New
		Our new USA flag shop is operational and if you live in the USA the buy buttons under certain flags will now take you to the US-based flag shop, as will the flag shop button on the left-hand bar.
		The flag images are now larger and where relevant the FIAV flag code is given beside each flag.
		Initially some of the sub-national regions that were covered in the old version, and the flags from history, are not in the new version, but rest assured that these will be added back in.
	www.flags.net /whatsnew.htm (858 words)

	Girl Guides Singapore :: Unit Management :: Tips & FAQs
		For the Enrolment, the two Colours may be marched on separately, each with its own party of three Guides, but if two Colours are taken for a Parade and are marched with the World Flag or Company Flag, the Colour Party of five is used.
		The Colours rest on the shoulder, a corner of the "fly" being held to the pike; the end of the pike should be as near the ground as possible.
		The Colour is carried vertically, with the end of the pike in the carrier, the right hand holding the pike and the corner of the "fly".
	www.girlguides.org.sg /unit_management/tips_n_faqs/guides/flag.html (1381 words)

	Rashtra Sevika Samiti - Chapter 4 - BHAGAWAD-DHWAJA
		This flag is still flying on the temples throughout the country and is carried by the thousands and lakhs of pilgrims of Pandharpur, preaching human values of life disregarding untouchability and all other outward differences.
		The flag of her making had three horizontal parallel stripes, the top stripe being green with eight lotus flowers, the middle was of saffron colour with Vande Mataram inscribed on it and tower stripe was red with the Sun and the Moon the symbols drawn on it.
		She chose a flag of nine stripes, four of the nine stripes being green, to represent the Muslim Community and five red to represent the Hindu Community because by that time, communal differences were deeprooted by the British administrators in the minds of the people here.
	www.hindubooks.org /rssw/ch4.htm (2608 words)

	Saint Lucia Flag
		The design of the Flag is in a similar vein expressing the dominance of the Negro Culture associated with that of Europe against a background of sunshine and ever blue sea coupled with the Island's famous twin Pitons rising sheer out of the sea - symbolic of the new Nation's hope.
		The dimensions of the National Flag shall be in portions of six feet by three feet (6' x 3') and nine inches by four and a half inches (9" x 4 1/2").
		When carried with another flag or flags, the flag of Saint Lucia should be held on the marching right or in front of the centre of the line of flags.
	www.un.int /stlucia/Flag.htm (740 words)

	Rashtra Sevika Samiti - Chapter 4 - BHAGAWAD-DHWAJA
		This flag is still flying on the temples throughout the country and is carried by the thousands and lakhs of pilgrims of Pandharpur, preaching human values of life disregarding untouchability and all other outward differences.
		The flag of her making had three horizontal parallel stripes, the top stripe being green with eight lotus flowers, the middle was of saffron colour with Vande Mataram inscribed on it and tower stripe was red with the Sun and the Moon the symbols drawn on it.
		She chose a flag of nine stripes, four of the nine stripes being green, to represent the Muslim Community and five red to represent the Hindu Community because by that time, communal differences were deeprooted by the British administrators in the minds of the people here.
	hindubooks.org /rssw/ch4.htm (2608 words)

	Dictionary of Vexillology: O (Obverse - Overall) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Please note however, that in Arabic tradition the flag is generally depicted with the hoist to the observer’s right — the sinister in heraldry (see also ‘sinister’; ‘dexter’ and ‘reverse’).
		In German, Central European and some other usage, the term which covers a vertically orientated commercial flag that is fixed both along its hoist to the flagpole and along the top edge to a horizontal arm (but see also ‘framed flag’).
		Please note that this type of flag is also a framed flag, that the term used here is a direct translation of the German plural auslegerflaggen, and should not be confused with a flag hung from an outrigger pole.
	www.atlasgeo.net /fotw/flags/vxt-dv-o.html (549 words)

	The French flag - Website of the Office of the French President
		The "tricolour" (three-colour) flag is an emblem of the Fifth Republic.
		The white flag was re-introduced under the Restoration, but Louis-Philippe reinstated the "tricolour," surmounting it with the Gallic rooster.
		From 1880 onwards, the presentation of the colours to the armed forces, each July 14, came to be a moment of high patriotic fervour.
	www.elysee.fr /elysee/anglais/the_symbols_of_the_republic/the_french_flag/the_french_flag.20357.html (435 words)

	Heraldry and Flags: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A popular and widely-flown flag in Newfoundland for much of the 19th century, and well into the 20th, was the "Pink, White and Green." Sometimes known as the "Native Flag," it originated in St. John's in the early 1840s.
		The new flag was adopted by the Natives' Society, and soon became Newfoundland's unofficial flag.
		It was adopted as the country's official flag by the National Flag Act of 1931, and re-adopted as the provincial flag in 1952.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /facts3.html (898 words)

	The BJP flag
		When the BJP was founded, a new flag was devised: "two vertical colours, saffron and green, in the ratio of 2:1, with the election symbol of the Party [lotus flower] in blue colour in the middle of the saffron portion equal to half its size.
		This way, the Congress/Republic flag at least satisfies certain patterns of universal symbolism; by contrast, the imposition of a green part on the BJP flag admits of no interpretation except as a kow-tow to Islam.
		Moreover, thirdly, the Congress had to devise a national flag somehow representative of a nation which it conceived as "composite" and "multi‑religious", not the symbol of a party representing a single ideology.
	koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /books/bjp/section4.html (1025 words)

	Benedikt (Municipality, Slovenia) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The flag and arms are prescribed by decision Odlok o grbu in zastavi Obcine Benedikt, adopted on 29 March 2000, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, nr.
		The flag is rectangular in ratio 1:2 "as a rule", horizontally divided white-green-white with a yellow fimbriation.
		The coat of arms is a shield in ratio 20:21, vertically divided in white and green fields of relative widths of 2:3, separated by a golden stripe 1/20 of the whole width.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/si-148.html (353 words)

	The BJP flag
		When the BJP was founded, a new flag was devised: "two vertical colours, saffron and green, in the ratio of 2:1, with the election symbol of the Party [lotus flower] in blue colour in the middle of the saffron portion equal to half its size.
		The dark colour can vary between different Indo‑European cultures, and may be fl, brown, blue or even green; in which case, green has a natural non‑communal symbol value in a Vedic cosmological scheme.
		This way, the Congress/Republic flag at least satisfies certain patterns of universal symbolism; by contrast, the imposition of a green part on the BJP flag admits of no interpretation except as a kow-tow to Islam.
	koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com /books/bjp/section4.html (1025 words)

	About government - National flag
		Individual colours, or colour combinations represent different meanings for different people and therefore no universal symbolism should be attached to any of the colours.
		The central design of the flag, beginning at the flagpost in a 'V' form and flowing into a single horizontal band to the outer edge of the fly, can be interpreted as the convergence of diverse elements within South African society, taking the road ahead in unity.
		When the flag is displayed vertically against a wall, the red band should be to the left of the viewer with the hoist or the cord seam at the top.
	www.info.gov.za /aboutgovt/symbols/flag.htm (329 words)

	Ukraine - Military Flags
		Viktor Karpov: Boyovyi prapor suchasnoyi Ukrayinskoyi armiyi [The battle flag of contemporary Ukrainian Army], in Viyskovo-istorychnyi almanakh.- Kyiv, 2001.
		Flag of Armed Forces of Ukraine ("Zbroyny syly Ukrayiny" in Ukrainian).
		Colour for military units - The motto on the anverse side (right side on this image): "For Ukraine, for her liberty".
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/ua-army.html (383 words)

	Flags of the World
		Flags of the World (FOTW) is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags).
		FOTW (Flags of the World) is a site originally established by Giuseppe Bottasini, and devoted to vexillology.
		Flags of the World is produced and maintained by an Editorial Staff of unpaid volunteers and the contents of these pages are offered freely to the Internet community.
	flagspot.net /flags (0 words)

	Ericsson T68 Colour Backgrounds :: The latest Ericsson Backgrounds for colour handsets.
		As the first ever phone to support MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) via its superior ericsson colour backgrounds and polyphonic ringtones, it's the most expressive way to communicate on the move.
		As well as an impressive colour backgrounds capability, the Ericsson T68i has GPRS for fast mobile Internet access, great personalization features and organizational tools.
		First, it displays an Ericsson Colour Backgrounds of your choice and then an impressive floating digital clock appears on the screen after the colour background.
	www.ericsson-t68-colour-backgrounds.co.uk (0 words)

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