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According to one account, Kelly climbed his first pole at the age of seven, and at nine he performed a "human fly" trick, climbing up the side of a building. [1]He is credited with popularizing the pole-sitting fad after sitting atop a flagpole in 1924, either in response to a dare from a friend [7] or as a publicity stunt to draw customers to a Philadelphia department store. [8]
Wigwag (more formally, aerial telegraphy) is an historical form of flag signaling that passes messages by waving a single flag. It differs from flag semaphore in that it uses one flag rather than two, and the symbols for each letter are represented by the motion of the flag rather than its position.
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A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The flag is fixed to one lower end of the cord, and is then raised by pulling on the other end.
Used to repeat the third flag of a hoist later within the same hoist. Code/Answer Pennant: At the dip (about half-way up the halyard): Ready to receive message Close up: Message has been received and understood (the flag is then hauled back at the dip to receive the next hoist) Hauled down: Signals end of message. With numerals: Decimal point
size 1 from 5.75 feet (1.75 m) to 10.25 feet (3.12 m), size 2 from 6.5 feet (2.0 m) to 11 feet (3.4 m), size 3 from 8 feet (2.4 m) to 13 feet (4.0 m), size 4 from 10.5 feet (3.2 m) to 16 feet (4.9 m). The safe load for each prop depends upon the size and extension of the prop. Size 1, 2 and 3 props can take about 34 kN unextended, dropping ...
Members of the French military raised the flag with its five Olympic rings at the Place du Trocadero near the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately, it was askew with the symbol's two bottom rings flipped ...
It is often recommended that a flag at half-mast be lowered only as much as the hoist, or width, of the flag. [4] [5] British flag protocol is that a flag should be flown no less than two-thirds of the way up the flagpole, with at least the height of the flag between the top of the flag and the top of the pole. [6]