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Aloysius Anthony Kelly, [1] popularly known as Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly (May 11, 1893 [2] [3] [4] [some accounts say 1885] [5] – October 11, 1952 [1] [6]), was a pole sitter who achieved fame in the 1920s and 1930s, sitting for days at a time on elevated perches throughout the United States.
Johnson's new chart of national emblems, published c. 1868.The large flags shown in the corners are the 37-star flag of the United States (flown 1867–1890), upper left; the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom, upper, right; the Russian Imperial Standard, lower left; and the French tricolore with inset Imperial Eagle, lower right.
The flag of the State of Maryland is the official flag of the U.S. state of Maryland and the 17th-century heraldic banner of arms of Cecil, 2nd Baron Baltimore.It consists of the arms of his father George, 1st Baron Baltimore (1579–1632), quartered with those of his grandmother, heiress of the Crossland family.
A software rendering of a spinning barber pole Barber pole, c. 1938, North Carolina Museum of History Barber shop in Torquay, Devon, England, with red and white pole. A barber's pole is a type of sign used by barbers to signify the place or shop where they perform their craft.
The national flag of Italy (Italian: bandiera d'Italia, pronounced [banˈdjɛːra diˈtaːlja]), often referred to in Italian as il Tricolore (pronounced [il trikoˈloːre]; English: "the Tricolour"), is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical panels of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by article 12 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic. [1]
Pole sitting is predated by the ancient ascetic discipline of stylitism, or column-sitting. St. Simeon Stylites the Elder (c. 388 –459) of Antioch (now Turkey) was a column-sitter who sat on a small platform on a column for 36 years.
Plans to restore the flagpole's original height was proposed in 2011 by the National Parks Development Committee (NPDC) of the Department of Tourism.The renovation project is one of the government body's commemorative projects for the 150th anniversary of Jose Rizal's birth.
