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2 unusual facts about white flag


White flag

In conventional vexillology, a white flag is linked to surrender, a reference to the Biblical description Jesus' non-violence and surrender to God's will.

Its use may have expanded across continents, e.g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia (writing in the 1550s), claims that in 1502, an Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a "white cloth tied to a stick", "as a sign of peace", to his enemy Vasco da Gama.


Dennis Taylor

As with all other first-time world champions so far, Taylor succumbed to the "Crucible Curse" on his return to the Crucible Theatre the following year and lost 10–6 to Mike Hallett in the opening match, humorously acknowledging defeat by putting his handkerchief on the end of his cue to resemble a white flag.

Matthew Felker

He has been seen in Britney Spears' hit "Toxic" music video, directed by Joseph Kahn He also appeared in the music video for Fountains of Wayne's Stacy's Mom directed by Chris Applenbaum, Dido's "White Flag" again directed by Kahn, as well as Celine Dion's "Have You Ever Been In Love" video.


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Battle of Churubusco

U.S. Captain James Milton Smith mounted the convent wall and raised the white flag of surrender.

Charles Hale Hoyt

His 10th play, A Trip to Chinatown (1891), with its hit tune "The Bowery" and its then-record 657 performance run, and his 1883 play, A Milk-White Flag, were the most successful.

Diver down flag

Rock band Van Halen used the red and white flag as the cover art of their 1982 album Diver Down.

Flag of Belarus

Between 1921 and 1939 the white-red-white flag was used by the Belarusian national movement in West Belarus (part of the Second Polish Republic), both by political organizations like the Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union or the Belarusian Christian Democracy, and non-political organizations like the Belarusian Schools Society.

The Electric Co.

Six days prior to the Red Rocks performance, 23-year-old Bono scaled a 50-foot lighting rig holding a white flag during "The Electric Co." at the US Festival near San Bernardino, California on Memorial Day 1983, broadcast on MTV.

White Flag Trade

The White Flag Trade was a trade made between two Major League Baseball teams in 1997.