Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first year out, an assistant engineer had died. They wrapped him in a Norwegian flag and laid him in a gigantic mausoleum, a cave carved into an iceberg...
...spirit in startling contrast to the tardy efforts in the Reichstag ceremony. But even at this an observer was moved to remark: "One wonders, gazing upward, at the black, white and red standard of the German Army sharing honors on the historic Konigsplatz with the black, red and gold flag of the republic whether it was not the soldiers' fatherland and their wartime leader who were being cheered instead of the Republican Constitution...
...ceremony took place at Long-year Valley, on Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, the principal settlement of the island. Minister Berg read a notification of annexation declaring the archipelago to be Norwegian territory and subject to Norwegian law. Up went the Norwegian flag, sailors from the patrol boat Heimdal presented arms, the guns of the Heimdal boomed salutes, the people sang the national anthem and a prayer for Norway was offered. One Lassen of the Ministry of Justice became Prefect of the Territory...
...colonial costume rode horseback. Three girls in colonial costume rode in a carriage. One white-robed marcher waved a flag and shouted to spectators; his face much resembled that of Charles Evans Hughes. One contingent bore a banner : "If you want to know what God thinks of us, read Revelations, 7th chapter, 9th to 17th verses...
...feature of the giant procession, which fortunately led to no untoward incidents, was the carrying of the colors of Imperial Germany. Not an Austrian flag was seen in the whole funeral procession, which of course made of it a demonstration for the union of Austria with Germany...