The veteran Brazilian is still looking for his first win of the season, while team-mate Jenson Button has taken the chequered flag six times.

BBC: Barrichello turns on Brawn team

He made sculptures from life of three of the six men raising the flag.

ECONOMIST: Felix de Weldon

These six young men raising the flag came to symbolize all of America coming together to beat back a totalitarian aggressor.

CNN: Transcript: Bachmann's response to State of the Union

Over six feet, he wore a Jordan flag as a bandana across his brow.

FORBES: Remembering the Road to Baghdad

Aston Martin completed the top six, with Andre Piccini taking the flag for second in the GT1 class in the car he shared with Oxford-based Darren Turner and Tomas Enge.

BBC: [an error occurred while processing this directive]

Webster moved alongside Manassero with a seven-under 64 which included a spectacular eagle at the par-five 13th, which saw his second shot from a fairway bunker strike the flag, leaving him with a six-foot putt for his three.

BBC: Jimenez maintains three-shot lead at European Masters

With the Enyimba defence waiting in vain for the offside flag, Zitouni found himself unmarked in the six-yard area but headed over the bar from close range.

BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Esperance hold Enyimba

Six years later a Russian submersible was to plant a titanium flag on the seabed 4km below the North Pole.

ECONOMIST: The scramble for the seabed

Toivonen was picked out from a right-hand cross to head home from six yards only to see his goal controversially disallowed by an offside flag.

BBC: Wales 0-1 Sweden

His six-iron came off the club like a bullet, landed past the flag and hopped into the water behind.

BBC: Monty tames Le Golf National