How a white flag come to mean submission?
A white flag is, I think, universally recognized as a sign of surrender. What is the origin This use of a white flag please? Yahoo! I wanted to put this in the Gay, Lesbian, section Trannie! Cool 3 responses directly to the court exactly the same information and paste! lol I'm not necessarily "the" contempt "cut and paste, but I find it funny that 3 people in a row hit the same thing.
Flag of surrender or truce The white flag is internationally recognized protective sign of truce or ceasefire, and request for negotiation. Also used to symbolize the transfer, as is often the weakest military group calling for negotiation. A white flag signifies to all who approached, arms negotiator with the intention to surrender or a desire to communicate. The persons carrying or waving a white flag should not be made up? are not allowed to open fire. The use of the flag of delivery is included in the Geneva Conventions. The misuse of a white flag is forbidden by the rules of war is a crime war of perfidy. There have been many cases of such conduct in the conflict as fighters using white flags as a ruse to approach and attack their enemies, or killings fighters trying to surrender, waving white flags. On several occasions since the weaker party in a state of decrepitude, a white flag would make everything available, like a shirt or a handkerchief. The most common way of making a white flag is to get a pole and tie two corners of a sheet of cloth on top of the mast and some in the middle. The first mention of the origin of the use of white flags to surrender is made during the dynasty of the Eastern Han (25-220 AD). In the Roman Empire, the historian Tacitus mentions a white flag of surrender in 109. Before that time, Roman armies would take their shields above their heads. Using the white flag has spread worldwide.
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