Physical Characteristics and Flag Anatomy

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And after the final point lands Lightweight layers mean your day isn't done Cool down, hit the clubhouse, and relive each play tennis gear in stores and online at lululemon. com. Plag is a piece of fabric most often rectangular Cors and designs and flown from a pole and used for symbolic signaling or decorative purposes The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed on such pieces of fabric The study of flags is known as vexilology from the Latin vexilum Meaning flag or banner The first flags were used to aid military coordination on the battlefield And flags have since evolved into a common tool for basic signaling and identification. Especially in environments where communication is challenging such as maritime environments. where semaphore is used The national flag is a common patriotic symbol of a country. And any national or other flags may be assigned to flag families based on similarities in their designs, had demonstrated shared history. culture or influence Flags are also used in messages, advertising or for other decorative purposes The origin of the flag is unknown And it remains unclear when the first flag was raised Ships with vexloids were represented on pre dynastic Egyptian pottery CirCa three thousand five hundred BC In antiquity field signs it can be categorized as vexeloid or flag likeke were used in warfare originating in ancient Egypt or Assyria. Examples include the Sassanid battle standard Tj Kavvani and the standards of the Roman legions such as the Eagle of Augustus Caesar's the tent Legion and the dragon standard of the Sarmatians. The latter was allowed to fly freely in the wind carried by a horseman A depiction suggests that it bore more similarity to an elongated dragon kindite in a simple flag While the origin of the flag remains a mystery, The oldest flag discovered is made of bronze. a Darash or flag like Shaddad which was found in Shadad in Iran and dates back to Circa two thousand four hundred BC It features a seated man and a kneeling woman facing each other with a star in between The iconography was found in other Iranian Bronze age pieces of art Flags made of cloth were almost certainly the invention of the ancient peoples of the Indian subcontinent or the Zhou dynasty of ancient China Chinese flags had iconography such as a red bird A white tiger or a blue dragon and royal flags were to be treated with a level of respect similar to that given to the ruler Indian flags were often triangular and decorated with attachments such as a Yak's tail and the state umbrella. Silk flags either spread to the near East from China or it was just the silk itself later fashioned by people who had independently conceptualized a rectangular cloth. attached to a pole They are often mentioned in the early history of Islam and may have been copied from India European flags are an independent invention In the Roman world The vexilum was a cloth military flag Merger describes it as the only Roman cloth flag used as a calvry flag. Detachment flag Sal flag Imperial standard religious flag. provincial symbol and as the root of the modern European flag tradition The Christian Roman Yabarum First used by Constantine in the fourth century was a version of the Vvexon Although usually suspended from a horizontal bar It was also sometimes displayed by fastening one side of the staff In medieval Europe, flags developed in connection with warfare Christianity Heraldry Monarchy cities Gilds and maritime identification Heraldic flags included penons, banners standards Royal standards Ezymes military standards and colors In English herodic usage, penons were personal landflags. Banners bore the arms of the owner and standards displayed livery colors and badges modern national flags in the strict political sense are associated with early modern and modern state formation citizenship Revolution. and nationalism He genius describes national flags as markers of nation building In the modern period Eespecially after the political changes associated with seventeen eighty nine during the peak of the sailing age beginning in the early seventeenth century. It was customary and later a legal requirement for ships to fly flags designating their nationality These flags eventually evolved into the national flags and maritime flags of today flags also became the preferred means of communications at sea resulting in various systems of flag signals Use of flags beyond a military or naval context Began with the rise of nationalism by the end of the eighteenth century although some flags date back earlier The flags of countries such as Austria, Denmark, or Turkey have legendary origins Wh many others, including those of Poland and Switzerland grew out of the heralic emblems of the Middle Ages The seventeenth century saw the birth of several national flags through revolutionary struggle. One of these was the flag of the Netherlands feared during the eighty year Dutch rebellion which began in fifteen sixty eight against Spanish domination Political change and social reform allied with a growing sense of nationhood among ordinary people led to the creation of new nations and flags all over the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries One of the most popular uses of a flag is to symbolize a nation or country Some national flags have been particularly inspirational to other nations, countries, or subnational entities in the design of their own flags Some prominent examples include The flag of Denmark The Denembro tested in fourteen seventy eight. And is the oldest national flag still in use It inspired the cross design of the other Nordic countries Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and several regional Scandinavian flags including the Faroe Islands and Oland. as well as flags from the non Scandinavian Shetland. and orrkney. The flag of the Netherlands is the oldest tricolor. Its three colors of red, white and blue go back to Charlemagne's time, the ninth century The coastal region of what today is the Netherlands was then known for its cloth in these colors Maps from the early sixteenth century already put flags in these colors next to this region, like Teshera's map of fifteen twenty. A century before that during the fifteenth century The three colors were mentioned as the coastal signals for this area W the three bend straight or diagonal, single or doubled as state flag It first appeared around fifteen seventy two as the Prince's flag in orange, white blue Soon, the more famous red white blue began appearing. becoming the prevalent version from around sixteen thirty Orange made a comeback during the Civil War of the late eighteenth century. signifying the orangest or pro stockholder party This use of orange comes from Nassau which today uses orange blue. not from orange which today uses red blue However, the usual way to show the link with the house of Orange Nassau is the orange pennant above the red white blue It is said that the Dutch tricolor has inspired many flags but most notably those of Russia, New York City in South Africa as the probable inspiration for the Russian flag It is the source too for the pen Slavic colors, red, white and blue adopted by many Slavic states and peoples as their symbols Examples are Slovakia, Serbia and Slovenia. The National flag of France was designed in seventeen ninety four. as a forerunner of evolution France's tricolor flag style has been adopted by other nations. examxamples Italy, Belgium Ireland, Romania in Mexico The Union flag, Union Jack of the United Kingdom is the most commonly used. British colonies typically flew a flag based on one of the enzymes based on this flag And many former colonies have retained the design to acknowledge their cultural history examples Australia PiG, New Zealand Tualu and also the Canadian provinces of Manitoba Ontario and British Columbia. and the American state of Hawaii The flag of the United States is nicknamed the Stars and Stripes W old glory Some nations imitated this flag to symbolize their similarity to the United States or the American Revolution examples Liberia, Chile Taiwan, RO he and the French region of Brittany Ethiopia was seen as a model by emerging African states of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. as it was one of the oldest independent states in Africa. Accordingly, its flag became the source of the Pan African colors, or Rasta colors Examples Pen in Too Senegal Gononna Molly. Guiny The flag of Turkey, which is very similar to the last flag of the oldld Ottoman Empire has been an inspiration for the flag designs of many other Muslim nations. During the time of the Ottomans The crescent began to be associated with Islam And this is reflected in the flags of Algeria Azerbaijan. Camoros Libya Mauritana. Pakistan Tunisia and Malives Pan Arab colors, green, white, red and black are derived from the flag of the Great Arab Revolt As seen on the flags of Jordan, Libya Kwaade Sudan Syria the United Arab Emirates. Western Sahara. Egypt Iraq Yemen Palestine The Soviet flag with its golden symbols of the hammer and sickle on a red field was an inspiration to flags of other communist states such as East Germany, China, Vietnam. Angola, Afghanistan. nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty and Mz andb. The flag of Venezuela created by Francisco Di Miranda, to represent the independence movement of Venezuela that later gave birth to the Gran Colombia. inspired the flags of Colombia Ecuador and the federal territories in Malaysia all sharing three bands of yellow, blue, and red with the flag of Venezuela The flag of Argentina, created by Manuel Belgrano during the War of Independence. was the inspiration for the United provinces of Central America's flag which in turn was the origin of the flags of Guatemala Honduras. of Salvador in Nicaragua National flag designs are often used to signify nationality in other forms such as flag patches A civil flag is a version of the national flag that is flown by civilians on non government installations or craft The use of civil flags was more common in the past in order to denote buildings or ships that were not crewed by the military. In some countries, the civil flag is the same as the war flag or state flag but without the coat of arms such as in the case of Spain And in others it is an alteration of the warfag Several countries, including the Royal Air Force, British Army, and the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, have had unique flags flown by their armed forces separately rather than the national flag. Other countries' armed forces, such as those of the United States or Switzerland, use their standard national flag. In addition, the U.S has, alongside flags and seals designed from long tradition for each of its six uniformed military services, military sub departments in the Department of Defense Department of Homeland Security The Philippines Armed Forces may use their standard national flag during times of war, the flag is turned upside down. Bulgaria's flag is also turned upside down during times of war. These are also considered war flags So the terminology only applies to the flag's military usage Large versions of the war flag flown on the warship of country navies are known as battle enzymes In addition, besides flying the National standard or a military services emblem flag at a military fort Pase station or post and at sea at the stern or main top mast of a worship A naval jack flag and other maritime flags Penants and emblems are flown at the bow In times of war, Waving a white flag is a banner of truce. negotiations or surrender Flags are particularly important at sea where they can mean the difference between life and death. and consequently where the rules and regulations for the flying of flags are strictly enforced A national flag flown at sea is known as an enzyme A courteous, peaceable merchant ship or yacht customarily flies its enzyme in the usual enzyme position togetherher with the flag of whatever nation it is currently visiting at the mast. known as a courtesy flag To fly one's enzyme alone in form waters F p. or in the face of a foreign worship traditionally indicates a willingness to findight Canon for the right to do so As of two thousand nine, this custom is still taken seriously by many naval and port authorities and is readily enforced in many parts of the world by boarding confiscation and other civil penalties. In some countries, yacht enzymes are different from merchant enzymes in order to signal that the yacht is not carrying cargo that requires a customs decoration carrying commercial cargo on a boat. was a yacht enzyme deemed to be smuggling in many jurisdictions Traditionally, a vessel flying under the courtesy flag of a specific nation Regardless of the vessel's country of registry is considered to be operating under the law of her host nation There is a system of international maritime signal flags for numerals and letters of the alphabet Each flag or pennon has a specific meaning when flown individually As well, sem of four flags can be used to communicate on an ad hoc basis from ship to ship over short distances Another category of maritime flag flown by some United States government ships is the distinctive mark Although the United States Coast Guard has its own service enzye, All other U S. government ships fly the national enzyme as their service enzyme following United States Navy practice. to distinguish themselves from ships of the Navy Such ships historically have flown their parent organization's flag from a forward mast as a distinctive mark Today, for example, commissionships of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Apply the NOAA flag as a distinctive mark Flags are usually rectangular in shape ofen in the ratio two to three one to two or three to five. but may be of any shape or size that is practical for flying including square triangular or swallow tailed A more unusual flag shape is that of the flag of Nepal which is in the shape of two stacked triangles Other unusually shaped flags include the civil flags of Ohio A swallow tail Tampa, Florida ide County Ohio. Many flags are dyed through and through to be inexpensive to manufacture such that the reverse side is the mirror image of the observe side Generally the side displayed when from the observer's point of view The flag flies from pole side left to right presents two possibilities onene If the design is symmetrical in an axis parallel to the flagpole Observe and reverse will be identical by the mirror reversal such as the Indian flag or Canadian flag T If not The Observe and reverse will present two variants of the same design One was a hoist on the left ussually considered the observe side The other was the hoist on the right usually considered the reverse side of the flag This is very common and usually not disturbing if there is no text in the design Some complex flag designs are not intended to be shown on both sides requiring separate observe and reverse sides if made correctly In these cases, there is a design element, usually text, which is not symmetric. and should be read in the same direction regardless of whether the hoist is to the viewer's left or right These cases can be divided into two types One The same asymmetric design may be duplicated in both sides Such flags can be manufactured by creating two identicals through and through flags and then sewing them back to back So this can affect the resulting combination's responsiveness to the wind Deppictions of such flags may be marked with a symbol indicating the reverse is congruent to rather than a mirror image of the observed. two. Rarerely, the reverse design may differ in whole or in part from that of the observe Examples of flags whose reverse differs from the observe e the flag of Paraguay The flag of Oregon and the historical flag of the Soviet Union Common designs on flags include crosses, stripes, and divisions of the surface or field into bands or quarters Patterns and principles mainly derived from heraldry A Heraldic coat of arms may also be flown as a banner of arms As is done on both the state flag of Maryland and the flag of Kiribati The Dejur flag of Libya, under Mmuammar Gaddafi which consisted of a rectangular field of green was for a long period the only national flag using a single color and no design or insignia However, other historical states have also used flags without designs or insignia such as the short lived Soviet Republic of Hungary, and the more recent Sultanate of Muskat in Oman whose flags were both a plain field of red Colors are normally described with common names such as red but may be further specified using color imagery The largest flag flown from a flagple worldwide According to Guinness World Records is the flag of the United Arab Emirates, blown in Sarja. This flag was two thousand four hundred and forty eight point five six square meters. The largest flag ever made was the flag of Qatar a flag which measures at one hundred and one thousand nine hundred and seventy eight square meters was completed in december twenty thirteen, and DoOA The general parts of a flag are Canton, the upper inner section of the flag Faled or ground The entire flag except the Cton The hoist the edge used to attach the flag to the hoist and the fly the furthest edge from the hoist end Verttical flags are sometimes used in lieu of the standard horizontal flag in central and Eastern Europe particularly in the German speaking countries this came about because the relatively brisk wind needed to display horizontal flags is not common in these countries The vertical flag is a vertical form of the standard flag The flag's design may remain unchanged O may change eG by changing horizontal stripes to vertical ones If the flag carries an emblem, It may remain centered or may be shifted slightly upwards The vertical flag for hoisting from a beam is additionally attached to a horizontal beam using that it is fully displayed even if there is no wind. The vertical flag for hoisting from a horizontal pole is hoisted from a horizontal pole normally attached to a building The topmost stripe on the horizontal version of the flag faces away from the building The vertical flag for hoisting from a cross bar or banner is firmly attached to a horizontal cross bar from which it is hoisted either by a vertical pole or a horizontal one The topmost stripe on the horizontal version of the flag normally faces to the left