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unusual facts about The Badge


Jarreau, Louisiana

Several local businesses (including Parrot's Bar and Horseshoe Auto Parts) were featured in scenes in the Billy Bob Thornton film "The Badge" (2002).



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Badge Man

In 1982 Gary Mack, the longtime curator and archivist for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (the former Texas School Book Depository) first claimed to discover the "Badge Man" figure.

Badge of Honour

The Badge of Honour or Queen's Certificate and Badge of Honour is a civil award presented by the governments of British Overseas Territories.

British ensign

Merchant vessels from British overseas territories and Crown dependencies are entitled to red ensigns defaced with the badge of their territory.

Canadian Special Operations Forces Command

With operational uniforms, all members of CANSOFCOM wear the tan beret, regardless of their environment (navy, army or air force), with the badge of their personnel branch or, for Royal Canadian Armoured Corps and Royal Canadian Infantry Corps members, the badge of their former regiment.

Coventry United F.C.

The badge also features the name of the club at the top of the badge, while at the bottom it features the St George's Cross with the year 2013, the year which the club formed.

The Badge features Lady Godiva on a horse in the center of a shield shaped badge.

Daihatsu Terios

In China it is known by two ways: one of them as under the badge as Zotye 2008 and 5008 propelled with a 1.5-litre engine provided by Mitsubishi (first series body); as an unauthorized copy of the car, which caused some controversy, and the FAW badged it as the Huali Terios.

Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand

The flag in its present form was adopted in 2008 and is a blue flag with the badge of the New Zealand coat of arms royally crowned.

Free Foresters Cricket Club

The badge consists of two capital Fs wrapped in a Hastings knot, with the motto 'United though Untied', signifying that players are free to play for other clubs, and even play against Free Foresters.

Gilliflower

The rose and gillyflower appear on the station badge of RAF Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, and subsequently on the badge of 39 Engineer Regiment based at Waterbeach Barracks.

Girls' Brigade

The badge incorporates symbols from the three original organizations and is, therefore, in itself a symbol of union, as well as faith and allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Hilda Gibson

Gibson received the badge of recognition in 2008 during a Prime Ministerial reception at Downing Street.

Hungary national rugby union team

The badge on the shirt derives from the Csodaszarvas, a mythological stag that led the ancient Hungarian people to the Pannonian Basin.

Margaret Rhea Seddon

It was on this mission that Dr. Seddon took the badge of her sorority Sigma Kappa into space.

New Jersey State Police

The badge has stars in each of its three corners and was created by New York jeweler Julius George Schwarzkopf, the father of founder Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf.

Order of George I

The badge of the Order was a white-enamelled Latin cross pattée, in silver for the Silver Cross class, in gold for the higher classes, with a wreath of laurels between the arms of the cross.

Pershing Professionals Badge

The 3rd Ordnance Battalion, 59th Ordnance Brigade allowed some soldiers to wear the badge for supporting the missile launches performed at Cape Canaveral.

Pingat Perkhidmatan Setia

After the cession of Sarawak to Britain in 1946, the medal was renamed as 'Long Service Badge'; however the purpose of the presentation of the badge remained the same.

Ram's Head Device

The badge is authorized for wear on the uniform of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Colorado and Vermont National Guard soldiers --these states have units that are aligned with the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain)-- but is widely worn unofficially by other graduates of the Army Mountain Warfare School.

Robert Totten

His last directing work was in 1990 in a segment of "The Man Behind the Badge" of ABC's The Young Riders, loosely based on the Pony Express.

Royal Corps of Signals

According to one explanation, the badge is referred to as "Jimmy" because the image of Mercury was based on the late mediaeval bronze statue by the Italian sculptor Giambologna, and shortening over time reduced the name Giambologna to "Jimmy".

Space and Missile Badge

On January 2014, General William L. Shelton (USAF) ordered the renaming of the Space Badge to Space Operations Badge and changed the rules associated with how Airman are eligible to earn the badge.

Wehrmacht mountain troops badge

Circa 2005 the badge began reappearing when a Chinese factory made chrome-plated pot-metal purse buttons and clasps in the same shape, leading to some fashion customers unknowingly sporting an emblem associated with Nazi Germany.