That does not mean, incidentally, that brandishing the saltire is purely a Nationalist act.
The Scottish government has backed the plan for what it calls a "Saltire Card".
The five options are Caledonia Bridge, Firth of Forth Crossing, St Margaret's Crossing, Queensferry Crossing and Saltire Crossing.
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Properties on the site have been placed on the short-list for the 2011 Saltire Society Housing Design Awards.
Last year, Skye's Rural Design was the first recipient of the Saltire Medal.
Categories of the Saltire Society Housing Design Awards were won by architect practices on Skye and in Perthshire and Aberdeen last year.
To complicate matters the union flag flies every day on the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh alongside the Saltire, and the European flag.
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Mr Salmond also announced that Terry Garcia, executive vice president of National Geographic Society, has agreed to chair the Scottish government Saltire Prize challenge committee.
As Scots increasingly clutched the saltire, urging a political response to their sense of Scottish identity, the Tories were brandishing the Union Flag and disowning devolution.
Mr Reid said in the letter that the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the authority on such matters, had declined to prescribe a precise shade of blue for the Saltire, a view accepted by Scottish ministers.
As well as announcing the doctorate and the companies vying for the Saltire Prize, Ms Sturgeon also launched a junior Saltire Prize photography competition called The Power of the Sea, with renowned Scots photographer David Eustace among the judges.
"Fearful of the outcome, King Angus led prayers for deliverance and was rewarded by seeing a cloud formation of a white Saltire - the diagonal cross against which Saint Andrew had been martyred - against a clear blue sky, " writes Mr Reid.
Jocky Wilson flew the flag that way for more than 15 years. (He sometimes did so literally, pushing his grinning way through the crowds with the Saltire clasped in one plump hand.) He became the first Scot to win the Embassy World Professional Championship in 1982, repeated the feat in 1989, and between 1979 and 1991 he always reached at least the quarter-finals.
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