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Toronto __ 19/6 All j';AVA members and friends are invited to atie!1d a.nd participate in the Annual

l"'eeting to be held in Toronto, October 8-10, 1976. Full particulars regarding hotel reservations, etc. will be forthcoming shortly. Questions may be addressed to !.'r. Frank Ranlewt, c/o Annin (..; Co., Ltd., 93 Felham Ave., Toronto, Onto N6N lA5.

RELIGIOUS PENXANTS - D.S. Navy Ships are expected to begin flyinEj a Jewish pen!1ant from masts while Jewish services are in progress. It has been a Navy

tradition for a long time to fly a triangular Christirul pennant while Frotestant' or Catholic services are being held. The initiative for using the Jewish pennant was made by the Navy Chief of Chaplains, Rear Admiral John J. O'Connor, who is a Roman Catholic chaplain. Worship Ilennants, the only ensigns permitted to be flmm above the United States flag on Navy ships, are unique to the Navy; the Arr

Rad Iy the lanners HIS YEAR Leningrad, hich probably pOssesses as any art treasures as any ty in the world, set up ecial INOrkshops to survey d restore such things as d fortresses, all-wooden urches and ancient clocks. \lOt the least important rt of their work is on rtoric revolutionary and de union banners. n this picture you see Irk in progress on banners j posters dating from the 18-20 civil war.

from: The Soviet Weekly

Bicentennial Logo used by the Salvation Army in the United States

from: The ~-lar Cry 10 January ''?6

London, England - 7 December 1974

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South Carolina colonials can claim . the honor of flying' the first flag flouting the authority of King George m, according to researchers at the College of Charleston.

The discovery that a blu~ pennant with three silver crescents was flown over Ft. Johnson at the en-trance to the Port of Charleston in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act was made by a researcher at the school library gathering material for a scheduled founders' day.

Dr. L. Wayne Jordan, assistant professor of bistory at the 206-year-old scbool, reported the event, whicb be said is significant because it occurred 10 years before tbe more famous Battle of Concord and the Boston Tea Party.

The writings of the son of William Henry Drayton, whose raiding party seized the fort and flew the flag, de-

tailed the event, Jordan said.

Gen. William Moultrie, a colonial hero for South Carolina in the Revo-lutionary War, flew a similar flag over the fort in 1775, bilt it con~ained only one crescent and eventu~lly was used as the basis for the current state flag.

Both men borrowed tbe Idea of the crescents and blue background from Francis Marion,tbe famed "Swamp Fox," whose men wore a silver crescent on their caps when they operated out of the nearby Hell Hole Swamp. Their uniforms were blue. . -

The Stamp Act, which required the affixing of excise tax stamps to newspapers and other legal docu-ments as a means of gaining more money for the crown, raised the ire of Charlestonians and Drayton capi-talized on it.

from: The Cleveland Fress 6 ,1 an uary 1976

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Q Can you explain the history and signifi-cance of the regimental guidon flag? H.E. Saunders, Sherbrooke, Que.

A Guidons have been in existence at least since the Middle Ages, and have been used by cavalry regiments for hundreds of years.

The name was apparently coined around the 16th century and is a cor-ruption of the old French guyd-homme, which meant "guider of men."

GUIOONOF LORD STRA THeON A'S HORSE'

In the hierarchy of military flags, the guidon - wbich is cleft at the end opposite the staff side, having rounded ends, swallow-tails or fISh-tails - ranks beneath the square standard. During the medieval period, junior-grade knights carried guidons into battle; and when they distinguished themselves suffi-ciently, the tails of their guidons were cut off to produce a square standard-like flag.

From the 17th century on, superior European cavalry corps (known as Regi-ments of Horse) were given square or oblong standards to carry. Lower-ranked British dragoons carried guidons, as did Napoleonic French dragoons tater on. Britisb hussars and lancers had no flag at all.

Armorial shield of the Kingdom of Kongo

Kongo: rrlle Dream Tllat Failed

The great kingdom that Diogo Gio visited was one of the most illustrious ever created by the Bantu-speaking peoples. And its centuries of close contact with Portugal, launched by Cao's mission, provide one of the m.ost poignant examples of destructive European influence in African history.

The kingdom of Kongo was centered in the northern part of what is today the Portuguese col-ony of Angola. At its zenith it stretched more than 200 miles from north to south, between the mod-ern Congo (Brazzaville) and the modern Angolan capital of Luanda, and roughly the same distance east to west, between the Atlantic Ocean and mod-ern Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire.

from: "Tbe Bantu Civilization of So;]tnern Africa" by E. Jefferson Eurpby (:'iew Yorh, Thomas Y. Crowell Co" 197h)

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NAVA 10 Toronto ...1976Religious PennantsEnglish Crest Source of U.S. Flag DesignNow, Bicentennial TrashHectic Day for the Flag RaisersPresidential & Bicentennial Flags Taken to Top of Mt. McKinleyRed Fly the BannersThis Busy World: S. Carolina Flag Was U.S. FirstGuidon of Lord Strathcona's HorseKongo: The Dream That Failed