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Pennant Numbers
Pennant may refer to: Flag or banner * Pennon (or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag ** Commissioning pennant, the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission ** Broad pennant, flown from the masthead of a British Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board ** Pennant (church), flown by navies during services on board ships * Pennant number, a number used to identify ships by the British Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth * Pennant (sports), a commemorative flag displayed or flown by a league-winning team ** Pennant race, the race to clinch the division title in a regular baseball season * Pennant (military), a tapering flag historically carried for identification purposes by cavalry detachments, attached to lances or standard poles. * Pennant, a reference to Flag and pennant patterns in technical analysis of a stock market chart Places * Pennant, Ceredigion, Wales * Pennant, Powys, Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennon
A pennon, also known as a pennant or pendant, is a long narrow flag which is larger at the Hoist (flag), hoist than at the Fly (flag), fly, i.e., the flag narrows as it moves away from the flagpole. It can have several shapes, such as triangular, tapering (square tail) or triangular swallowtail (forked tail), etc. In Maritime flag, maritime use, pennants are to be hung from the Truck (rigging), main truck. Pennon-style flags were one of the principal three varieties of flags carried during the Middle Ages (the other two were the banner and the Heraldic flag#Standard, standard). The pennon is a flag resembling the guidon (heraldic flag), guidon in shape, but only half the size. It does not contain any coat of arms, but only Crest (heraldry), crests, mottos and heraldic and ornamental devices. Pennoncell, streamer and wimpel are minor varieties of this style of flag (see #Variant types, variant types). Etymology Pennon comes from the Latin ''penna'', meaning "a wing" or "a feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafydd Pennant
Dafydd Pennant was a late 16th-century Welsh poet. Two surviving works are known, a cywydd The cywydd (; plural ) is one of the most important metrical forms in traditional Welsh poetry ( cerdd dafod). There are a variety of forms of the cywydd, but the word on its own is generally used to refer to the ("long-lined couplet") as it is ... (written in praise of ‘William of Penrhyn’), and a love poem. References Welsh male poets 16th-century Welsh poets Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Wales-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vympel
Directorate "V" of the FSB Special Purpose Center, often referred to as Spetsgruppa "V" Vympel ( pennant in Russian, originated from German , and having the same meaning), but also known as KGB Directorate "V", Vega Group, is a stand-alone sub-unit of Russia's special forces within the Russian Special Forces Center of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Vympel is the sister unit of Spetsgruppa "A" (Alpha Group), an FSB unit. Origins KUOS As most of the training in the KGB academy concentrated on plainclothes operational work focused on espionage and counter-espionage, in 1955 the First Chief Directorate of the service established the Development Courses for Officer Personnel ( (), Latinized abbreviation KUOS) – a training cadre with the purpose of training general duty KGB officers in irregular warfare and combat tactics for clandestine operations overseas or as a stay-behind cadre and backbone for the formation of partisan units in case of a foreign invasion. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pennant
''The Pennant'' is a weekly newspaper published in Penola, South Australia, from July 1946. Along with '' The Border Watch'', it was most recently owned by the Scott Group of Companies. After 74 years of publishing, however, the newspaper (along with sister publication the '' South Eastern Times'') was discontinued on 21 August 2020. However, in March 2022 the newspaper was relaunched with funding after an 18-month hiatus. History ''The Pennant'' was founded by W. Erwin Thiele, who felt that a publication to service the town and local areas was needed after a "lack of communication from Mount Gambier and Naracoorte was evident". It was first published on Thursday, 25 July 1946, leading with a story about plans to upgrade Penola's Memorial Hospital. Kenneth Victor Dohnt (a New Zealander), assumed control of the paper in 1950 and maintained it until his death in 1971. It was then controlled by Lyle Shurdington, a local and long-time employee, and in October 1978, it was taken ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennant (automobile)
The Pennant was an automobile marque of the Barley Motor Car Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan (1924–25) for taxicabs. Barley also made the Roamer (1916–29) and the Barley automobiles (1922–24). The Pennant was a continuation of the Barley configured for taxi service. History Albert C. Barley sold his interest in Roamer in 1924 and the Kalamazoo factory remained the Barley Motor Car Co. and continued to manufacture the Barley. When sales were disappointing, the Pennant taxicab was phased in. It was a Barley with a Buda 4-cylinder engine and targeted at the taxicab market. Its main competitor was the Checker, also built in Kalamazoo. The Pennant trade dress was a maroon upper body and ivory lower body. Both the Barley and Pennant were discontinued by 1926. After the 1924 reorganization, the Roamer Motor Car Co. was incorporated at Toronto, Ontario Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celithemis
''Celithemis'' is a genus of dragonfly, dragonflies in the family Libellulidae. They are known commonly as pennants. There are eight species in this monophyly, monophyletic genus. They are mainly distributed in eastern North America. Species Species include: Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Notes References * * *External links ''Celithemis''. Discover Life. * * Libellulidae Anisoptera genera Taxa named by Hermann August Hagen {{Libellulidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
