• One features the silhouette of a man sporting the colours of the German flag, the second those of the French flag.

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  • Many mourners at Sunday's funeral waved the light blue flag of the Sunni-based opposition Future Party, while others carried Lebanon's national flag.

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  • "That's why the New York Yacht Club kept the Cup for 130 years, " says Koch, who competed under the flag of the San Diego Yacht Club.

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  • It seems that these mammoth structures are considered ships, and this one was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, a country of roughly 70, 000 people.

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  • Meanwhile in Downing Street the official flag of the 2012 Paralympic Games has been raised - replacing the Olympic rings that have been flying over Number 10.

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  • The flag of the People's Republic of China is red with four small yellow stars surrounding one larger star on the upper corner near the flag pole.

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  • Even the original flag of the United States, first raised in 1775 was "a jack with the union flag, and striped red and white in the field".

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  • What are you doing to challenge conventional wisdom and ensure that your operational practices are being done in way that is optimized for today rather than blindly saluting the flag of the past?

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  • Tensions between Jakarta and Aceh have been running high recently over the decision by Aceh's parliament to use the flag of the now defunct separatist Free Aceh Movement as its official symbol, the BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta reports.

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  • "I don't know what happened there but I'm shocked, I'm really shocked, because somehow he really carries the flag of the Paralympic Games and Paralympians, " Eduard Novak, a Romanian para-cyclist who won a gold medal in the London games, said in a phone interview Thursday.

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  • Horn-blaring cars draped in the colours of the Ghanaian flag filled the streets of the capital, Accra, and the second city of Kumasi.

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  • Goldman Sachs (GS) led the charge, breaking out of its flag ahead of the market.

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  • The United States and the flag state of the seized ship would have input into the selection of some of these arbitrators.

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  • Notably, Hawaii retains the union flag in the canton of its flag - the only state to do so.

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  • It was only 10 years ago, when Euro 96 saw England host a major tournament for the first time in 30 years, that the flag of England replaced its British equivalent as the supporters' flag of choice.

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  • The compass was also invented in China, and records exist of how a great fleet was sent under the command of Admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century to show the Chinese imperial flag in the ports of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, a fleet said to be the largest seen in the world up to that time.

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  • Chart Analysis : The weekly chart of the gold futures shows the completion of the flag formation (lines a and b) in the latter part of January.

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  • But Richard Berg Rust, chairman of the Northumbrian Association, thinks that the flag of Bernicia is only really popular north of the Tyne.

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  • They may have moved to DC from somewhere else, but today, many sport the two bars and three stars flag tattoo of the city.

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  • There were tears in the foyer as hotel staff queued up to take pictures of the press corps - then sent a couple of brave porters on to the bullet train platform to pursue us out of the station waving the flag of St George.

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  • Emirates has also thrived by entering markets in the rest of the Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, India and Latin America that had hitherto been poorly connected to the global air-transport network because of over-regulation, the absence of a strong local flag carrier and the indifference of established airlines.

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  • Most kites have a wrist leash that releases one side of the kite when the surfer lets go of the control bar, so the kite flaps uselessly like a flag instead of dragging the surfer underwater (it can happen).

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  • The flag formation (line a and b) was not complete until prices reached the apex of the flag-but the rally was still quite dramatic.

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  • But his rivals point out derisively that the maroon-and-white colours of his posters match those of the flag of Qatar, generally seen as his chief sponsor.

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  • MPs have been debating the Northern Ireland Secretary of State's proposals to deal with the contentious issue of flag flying in the province.

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  • Bob Burns, another champion of the new flag, accuses the Cornish of "distorting history" in a bid to carve out a separate identity from their neighbours.

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  • Alliance, Sinn Fein and SDLP councillors voted to limit the flying of the flag while the DUP and Ulster Unionists opposed the move.

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  • "Pledging allegiance to the flag was one of the proudest moments of my life, " remembers Stephen Park, who attended his own naturalization ceremony in 2005.

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  • The flag of Rocamadour flew over the battle of Navas de Tolosa, when the Moors were routed by the army of Alfonso VIII of Castile.

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