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    The Good Luck Flag (寄せ書き日の丸, yosegaki hinomaru) was a traditional gift for Japanese servicemen deployed during the military campaigns of the Empire of...
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    making "good luck blankets". Good Luck Flag – Traditional gift for Japanese servicemen Michael A. Bortner, DDS Imperial Japanese Good Luck Flags and One-Thousand...
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    culture, hachimaki are stereotypically associated with martial artists. Good Luck Flag – Traditional gift for Japanese servicemen Kerchief – Cloth tied around...
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    and are also considered symbols of good luck. Until the mid-18th century, the design and significance of maritime flags flying on ships in Tunis are unknown...
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    Sarashi Belly band Cummerbund Michael A. Bortner, Imperial Japanese Good Luck Flags and One-Thousand Stitch Belts, 2008, Schiffer Military Books Uleshka...
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  • an agent on the ground with bonfires or bicycle lamps, but this required good visibility, as the pilot or navigator of a plane had not only to spot the...
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    and was used to encourage Imperial troops in combat. Flag of Japan Rising Sun Flag Good Luck Flag (signed war banner) Five-point star badge (Imperial Japanese...
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    the Imperial War Museum London. Among the collection are a Japanese Good Luck Flag, operational map (numbered 11), photographs of Force 136 personnel and...
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    is the traditional Uzbek symbol of peace and good luck. Green is a symbol of nature, new life, and good harvest. The red fimbriations represent the power...
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    Rikishi (category Good articles)
    restaurants, putting to good use the techniques they had learned while preparing meals in the stables. Some former sumo wrestlers tried their luck competing in mixed...
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    division's 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, display a Japanese Good Luck Flag captured on Mount Popa during the mop-up operations that took place...
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  • takes place in spring and "the green in the Irish flag symbolizes the luck of the Irish." Hard Luck sold 1.3 million its first week. It was the number...
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    the band announced on social media and their website their new album Good Luck, Kid would be released September 13, 2019. The first single, Fighter,...
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    The flag of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს სახელმწიფო დროშა, romanized: sakartvelos sakhelmts'ipo drosha), also known as the Five-Cross Flag (ხუთჯვრიანი...
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    dragon's head. The pearl is associated with wealth, good luck, and prosperity. The design of the flag was largely based on the Plain Yellow Banner, one...
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    Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet, returns a hinomaru yosegaki, or a good luck flag, to Consul General of Japan Toyoei Shigeeda during a ceremony at the...
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    deploying soldier to sign a Hinomaru and present it to him. The flag was also used as a good luck charm and a prayer to wish the soldier back safely from battle...
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    Flag of Cologne, Germany Flag of Gyumri, Armenia Flag of Hamburg, Germany Flag of Kazan, Russia Flag of Kharkiv, Ukraine Flag of Kraków, Poland Flag of...
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  • Retrieved 9 August 2022. "Flag Days: Good Luck, True South". 99% Invisible. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2022. "Antarctica's first flag gives the uninhabited...
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    early 20th century it was used worldwide and was regarded as a symbol of good luck. The swastika's worldwide use was well documented in an 1894 publication...
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    fingers spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed together to bring good luck. Similarly, it can be portrayed with the fingers pointing up in warding...
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    2009. Mikkelson, Barbara & David P. "Good luck, Mr Gorsky!" at Snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages. "Good Luck, Mr. Gorski". Torino Film Fest. Retrieved...
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    in order to sweep away any ill fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Another practised custom is the decoration of windows and doors with...
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    the mid-20th century, the Fairy Flag was said to have extinguished a fire at Dunvegan Castle, and to have given luck to servicemen flying bombing missions...
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    (clockwise) (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya ('sun'), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (counter-clockwise) (卍) is called sauvastika...
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  • 13 (number) (section Luck)
    France prior to the First World War, and was used in numerical form as a good luck symbol on postcards and charms. Italy: 13 was the lucky number in the...
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  • Machine, May 2011. Littleton, Cynthia (December 12, 2013). "'Good Wife': Carrying Kudos Flag for Big 4 Dramas". Variety. Archived from the original on December...
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  • after the appetizer) Kathleen O'Brien-Price, winner of Episode 36.10 - "Luck of the Irish" (eliminated after the entrée) Demetrio Zavala, winner of Episode...
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    in West Africa which is believed to protect the wearer from evil or bring luck, and in some West African countries is used as a purported method of birth...
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    Associated with but ranked above brown, yellow signifies neutrality and good luck. Yellow is sometimes paired with red in place of gold.[citation needed]...
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