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Guidon Games Games
Guidon may refer to: __NOTOC__ Flags * Guidon, a type of heraldic flag * Guidon, a military flag – see Colours, standards and guidons ** Guidon (United States) In the United States Armed Forces, a guidon is a Military colours, standards and guidons, military standard or flag that company (military unit), company/battery/troop or platoon-sized detachments carry to signify their unit designation and bran ..., a military standard or flag in the United States military and Coast Guard People * Giachem Guidon (born 1961), Swiss former cross-country skier * Niède Guidon (1933–2025), Brazilian archaeologist * Shimiray Mwissa Guidon, leader of Nduma Defense of Congo-Renovated, a militia group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from 2014 to 2021 Other uses * Guidon (music), a music notation symbol that is similar to a catchword in literature * Guidon (rank), a military rank equivalent to ensign * '' The GUIDON'', the student newspaper of Ateneo de Manila University, Quez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heraldic Flag
In heraldry and vexillology, a heraldic flag is a flag containing coat of arms, coats of arms, heraldic badges, or other devices used for personal identification. Heraldic flags include banners, standards, pennons and their variants, gonfalons, guidons, and pinsels. Specifications governing heraldic flags vary from country to country, and have varied over time. Types Pennon The pennon is a small elongated flag, either pointed or swallow-tailed (when swallow-tailed it may be described as a banderole). It was charged with the heraldic badge or some other armorial ensign of the owner, and displayed on his own lance, as a personal ensign. The ''pennoncelle'' was a modification of the pennon. In contemporary Scots usage, the pennon is 120 cm (four feet) in length. It tapers either to a point or to a rounded end as the owner chooses. It is assigned by the Lord Lyon King of Arms to any armiger who wishes to apply for it. Banner The banner of arms (also simply called ''banner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colours, Standards And Guidons
In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours, standards, flags, or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt some 5,000 years ago. The Roman Empire also made battle Vexillum, standards reading SPQR a part of their vast armies. It was formalized in the armies of Europe in the High Middle Ages, with standards being emblazoned with the commander's coat of arms. General use Military colours originally had a practical use in battle. As armies became trained and adopted set formations, each regiment's ability to keep its formation was potentially critical to its success, and therefore its entire army's success. In the chaos of battle, due to the amount of dust and smoke on a battlefield, soldiers needed to be able to determine where their regiment was. Regimental flags are generally awarded to a regiment by a head of state during a ceremony. They were therefore t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guidon (United States)
In the United States Armed Forces, a guidon is a Military colours, standards and guidons, military standard or flag that company (military unit), company/battery/troop or platoon-sized detachments carry to signify their unit designation and branch/corps affiliation or the title of the individual who carries it. A basic guidon can be rectangular, but sometimes has a triangular portion removed from the fly (known as "Swallowtail (flag), swallow-tailed"). Significance The significance and importance of the guidon is that it represents the unit and its commanding officer. When the commander is in service, his or her guidon is displayed for everyone to see. When the commander leaves for the day, the guidon is taken down. It is an honor to be the guidon carrier for a unit, known as a "guidon bearer" or "guide". He or she stands in front of the unit alongside the commander (or the commander's representative), and is the rallying point for troops to fall into Tactical formation, format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giachem Guidon
Giachem Guidon (born 4 September 1961 in Bever) is a Swiss cross-country skier who competed from 1982 to 1994. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he earned his best career finish of fourth in the 4 × 10 km relay at Calgary in 1988 and his best individual finish of 12th in the 15 km event at Sarajevo in 1984. Guidon's best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was eighth twice (30 km: 1985, 15 km: 1989). His best World Cup finish was second in a 30 km event in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ... in 1985. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games World Championships World Cup Season standings Individual podiums * 2 podiums Team pod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niède Guidon
Niède Guidon () (12 March 1933 – 4 June 2025) was a Brazilian archaeologist known for her work in pre-historic archeology of South American civilizations and her efforts to secure the conservation of the World Heritage Site Serra da Capivara National Park. Educated in Brazil and France, she worked in Paris for most of her career. Since the early 1970s, Guidon had conducted archeological research in Southeast Piauí, where thousands of archeological sites have been discovered. Her dates from those sites indicate that human settlement preceded North America's Clovis culture, Clovis people by tens of thousands of years. In the late 1980s, these findings challenged the mainstream theory of Clovis culture, Clovis First and have generated debate in the academic archeology community. She was the founding president of the Fundação Museu do Homem Americano (American Man Museum Foundation), a non-profit organization created to support the Serra da Capivara National Park, a World Heri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nduma Defense Of Congo-Renovated
Nduma Defense of Congo—Renovated () is a Congolese rebel group operating in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a splinter faction of the Nduma Defense of Congo (NDC) and controls large parts of the North Kivu province, and has been a major participant of the Kivu conflict since its split from the NDC in 2014. History Creation and split from the NDC In September 2014, Guidon split from Nduma Defense of Congo (NDC) and created a rival faction called the NDC–Rénové along with other NDC commanders, in particular the movement’s head of intelligence, Gilbert Bwira Chuo, who became his deputy. Its creation was due to internal disagreements over the sharing of revenues and leadership in the original group of the NDC. Sheka who was the leader at the time of the NDC kept annoying his associates over his alleged tendency to take sole credit for their exploits and over the uneven sharing of funds. This along with his tendency to not pay his soldiers led a lot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guidon (music)
A direct, also referred to by some English speaking musicians by its Italian name guida, its French name guidon, its German name wächter, or its Latin name custos, is a musical symbol used in music notation to indicate the first note on the next staff of the following page. Similar to a catchword in literary works, the direct symbol assists musicians with knowing which note is coming next during a page turn. The symbol was first used in the 11th century; sometime in place of a clef on the next line. It was later adopted into mensural notation of the 13th through 17th centuries. Though a less commonly seen symbol in modern notation, it is still used by some composers today. Some contemporary publications utilize the direct symbol to indicate a continuation rather than as a reference to a specific upcoming pitch. In these cases the symbol's meaning is comparable to an et cetera in writing. When a mordent In music, a mordent is an ornament indicating that the note is to be playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guidon (rank)
Ensign (; Late Middle English, from Old French ["mark", "symbol", "signal"; "flag", "standard", "pennant"], from Latin [plural]) is a junior rank of a Officer (armed forces)#Commissioned officers, commissioned officer in the armed forces of some countries, normally in the infantry or navy. As the junior officer in an infantry regiment was traditionally the carrier of the regimental colors, the rank acquired the name "ensign". This rank has generally been replaced in army ranks by second lieutenant. An ensign was generally the lowest-ranking commissioned officer, except where the rank of subaltern existed. In contrast, the Arab rank of ensign, لواء, ''liwa''', derives from the command of a unit with an ensign, not from the carrier of the unit's ensign, and is today the equivalent of major general. According to Thomas Venn's 1672 ''Military and Maritime Discipline in Three Books'', an ensign's duties included not only carrying the colors but assisting the captain and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Kendrick Johnson
Helen Kendrick Johnson (January 4, 1844 – January 3, 1917) was an American writer, poet, and prominent activist opposing the women's suffrage movement. Early life Helen Kendrick was born in Hamilton, New York to Asahel Clark Kendrick, a professor in Greek at University of Rochester and Anne Elizabeth Kendrick (born Hopkins) who died in 1851 after the birth of Helen's third sister. After the death of her mother, Helen aged 7 spent much of her childhood living with her aunt in Clinton, New York until 1860 when she spent time in Savannah, Georgia with her father's brothers leaving in 1861 due to the outbreak of the American Civil War. In 1863 she enrolled as a student in the Oread Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts and studied there until June, 1864. After the end of the Civil War she briefly returned to Savannah and spent the rest of her childhood between there, an aunt's house in Utica, New York and her father's house in Rochester, New York where she remained until her m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guidon Games
Guidon Games produced board games and rulebooks for wargaming with miniatures, and in doing so influenced Tactical Studies Rules (later TSR, Inc.), the publisher of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. The ''Guidon Games'' publishing imprint was the property of Lowrys Hobbies (later Lowry Enterprises), a mail-order business owned by Don and Julie Lowry. About a dozen titles were released under the imprint from 1971 to 1973. History By the late 1960s the miniature wargaming hobby had grown large enough that there was a demand for rulebooks dedicated to a single historical period. Don Featherstone of the UK produced booklets for eight different periods in 1966.*http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/timeline2.html Courier Magazine History of Wargaming A few years later the Wargames Research Group began producing rulesets with an emphasis on historical accuracy.http://www.phil-barker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/WRG/wrg.html History of the Wargames Research Group With this trend in mind Lowry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
