"rattlesnake like the one found on the Gadsden Flag. The song's lyrics refer to political phrases from the American Revolutionary War. ""Don't Tread On Me"" is a song from hard rock supergroup Damn Yankees on their 1992 studio album Don't Tread. In addition, in the hit series The West Wing, Sam Seaborn's office displays the flag hanging above his cabinet. NASCAR driver Carl Edwards displayed the Gadsden Flag next to his facsimile signature on his race car. In WWE, the tag team Real Americans, composed by Jack Swagger, Cesaro and the manager Zeb Colter, used the Gadsden Flag and the"
"Sicilian ports. The letter describes the American flag according to the 1777 Flag Resolution, but also describes a flag of ""South Carolina, a rattlesnake, in the middle of the thirteen stripes."" The rattlesnake had long been a symbol of resistance to the British in Colonial America. The phrase ""Don't tread on me"" may have been coined during the American Revolutionary War, a variant perhaps of the snake severed in segments labelled with the names of the colonies and the legend ""Join, or Die"" which had appeared first in Benjamin Franklin's ""Pennsylvania Gazette"" in 1754, as a political cartoon reflecting on"
"beneath a tree engrossed in meditation, Mucalinda came up from the roots of the tree to shield the Buddha from a tempest that was just beginning to arise. The Gadsden flag of the American Revolution depicts a rattlesnake coiled up and poised to strike. Below the image of the snake is the legend, ""Don't tread on me."" The snake symbolized the dangerousness of colonists willing to fight for their rights and homeland. The motif is repeated in the First Navy Jack of the US Navy. Serpents are connected with poison and medicine. The snake's venom is associated with the chemicals"
"consisting of thirteen red and white stripes charged with an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto ""Dont Tread on Me"" [""sic""]; this tradition dates at least back to 1880, when this design appeared in a color plate in Admiral George Henry Preble's influential ""History of the Flag of the United States"". Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that this inferred design never actually existed but ""was a 19th-century mistake based on an erroneous 1776 engraving"". In 1778, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sicily, thanking him for allowing entry of American ships into"
"served as a line company. Its uniform included blue cloth caps with white plumes; blue frock coats with three rows of brass buttons, silver lace trim, and blue epaulettes. Officers had a single-breasted frock coat. Trousers were also blue, apparently with a white stripe. The company flag, presented to the company a few days before December 11, 1860, was described: ""upon one side is the Coat of Arms of Georgia; on the other a huge rattlesnake, coiled around a tree and the words 'Don't tread on me'"". The flag was issued before Georgia seceded in January 1861, and it was"
"some maintain that it was superimposed by an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto """"Dont tread on me"""" , reminiscent of the Gadsden flag. It was later changed to a blue canton with white stars, the ""union"", and updated as each state entered the Union. However, all warships were directed to fly the First Navy Jack, including the disputed rattlesnake and motto, for the duration of the War on Terror in 2002. A Commissioning or Masthead pennant is flown from the masthead and represents the commission of the captain of the ship (and thus of the ship itself). Additionally, a Church"
"Don't Tread on Me (Metallica song) ""Don't Tread on Me"" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, from their eponymous fifth album. The title is connected with the American Revolutionary War. The words ""Don't Tread on Me"" constitute the motto of the Gadsden flag, and the snake image on the flag is pictured on the cover of the album. The instrumental introduction uses an eight bar phrase from ""America"", a popular song from the musical and film ""West Side Story"". It is in a moderate tempo of 104 bpm in . The lyrics reference American Revolutionary Patrick Henry's"
"the Albany Congress. The rattlesnake (specifically, the Timber Rattlesnake) is especially significant and symbolic to the American Revolution. The rattle has thirteen layers, signifying the original Thirteen Colonies. Additionally, the snake does not strike until provoked, a quality echoed by the phrase ""Don't tread on me."" For more on the origin of the rattlesnake emblem, see the Gadsden flag. The First Navy Jack was first used in recent history during the United States' Bicentennial year, 1976, when all commissioned naval vessels were directed to fly it while moored or anchored for the entire year, this in lieu of the standard"
"list Miller praised it as a ""tribute to the doctrine of peace through strength"". Don't Tread on Me (Metallica song) ""Don't Tread on Me"" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, from their eponymous fifth album. The title is connected with the American Revolutionary War. The words ""Don't Tread on Me"" constitute the motto of the Gadsden flag, and the snake image on the flag is pictured on the cover of the album. The instrumental introduction uses an eight bar phrase from ""America"", a popular song from the musical and film ""West Side Story"". It is in a"
"management, erect a cardinal and gold doghouse around the statue to protect it from possible vandalism. The plaque on the statue reads: The protagonist of the Firesign Theatre album ""Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers"" was named George Leroy Tirebiter, after the dog, and that album's movie-within-a-play, ""High School Madness"" featured a boy named Porgy Tirebiter. George Tirebiter George Tirebiter was the nickname initially given to a dog at the University of Southern California in the 1940s who was the unofficial mascot of the school before becoming the official mascot on October 22, 1947. The nickname was passed"
"the flag of the ""Allied States of America"", which had been flying at the town hall following a federal coup. He replaces the red, white, and blue flag of the central government with a Gadsden Flag which the previous mayor had kept framed in his office. The scene depicts a once-collaborationist character as finally having summoned the courage to be in open defiance against a supreme government. American heavy metal band Metallica recorded a song called ""Don't Tread on Me"" on their self-titled fifth studio album, released in 1991. The album cover features a dark grey picture of a coiled"
"located at Fort Myer, Virginia; the snake symbol can be found in the coat of arms of the 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters. ""Don't tread on me"" is also the motto of No. 103 (Bomber) Squadron, Royal Air Force. The biblical scene of Mary Magdalene's recognizing Jesus Christ after his resurrection became the subject of a long, widespread and continuous iconographic tradition in Christian art from Late Antiquity until today. Pablo Picasso, for example, used the painting ""Noli me tangere"" by Antonio da Correggio, stored in the Museo del Prado, as an iconographic source for his famous"
"on heraldry, a late-13th or early-14th century Anglo-Norman manuscript titled ""De Heraudrie"", mentions the crow, eagle, griffin, heron, leopard, lion, martlet, popinjay, and swan. Citing Bado Aureo, the ""Oxford Guide"" further suggests that the leopard, said to be ""borne of an adulterous union between a lioness and a pard,"" and like a mule incapable of reproducing, may be an appropriate charge for a person born of adultery or barred from reproducing (such as an abbot). As a general rule, English heralds tend to identify ""lions"" as rampant (upright, in profile facing dexter), and ""leopards"" as passant guardant (walking, head turned"
"design. The committee in Whitehorse however kept with the original design. The flag was adopted by the 'Flag Ordinance' assented to on December 1, 1967. The flag is divided into three coloured panels: In the centre of the white panel is the Coat of Arms of Yukon above a wreath of fireweed, the floral emblem of the Yukon. The crest of the Coat of Arms is a Malamute sled dog, a common work dog in the Yukon, standing on a mound of snow. The shield of the Coat of Arms contains at the top, a cross of St. George for"
"In October, the Latino Victory Fund, which supports Northam, released an ad in which a pickup truck, adorned with a Gillespie bumper sticker, a ""Don't tread on me"" license plate, and a Confederate flag, chases down minority children and corners them in an alley—one of the children in the ad then wakes up, revealing the scene to have been a nightmare. Although Northam and his campaign were not involved with the ad, Northam initially defended it, saying Gillespie's own ads ""have promoted fearmongering, hatred, bigotry, racial divisiveness,"" and adding, ""I mean, it's upset a lot of communities, and they have"
"kangaroo and an emu using its foot to help the kangaroo to support the shield, all on a bed of green grass with a scroll containing the motto ""Advance Australia"". The selection of the kangaroo, the emu and the words, ""Advance Australia"" was tied together symbolically. The shield had a white background, with a red cross of Saint George, blue lines outside the cross, and a blue border containing six inescutcheons featuring a red chevron on white, representing the six states. The Scottish Patriotic Association was vocally opposed to the shield's design, noting that it should display the Union Jack"
"blocked. It contains mainly hinds, some stags, various cattle and a pair of horses, and also there is a goat. There are other symbols difficult to identify, some seeming to be animals, others anthropomorphs, and there is a positive hand impression colored black, dotted signs, rod signs, and other ideomorphs, among which stands out the so-called ""Trampa"" (a kind of column which encloses, behind a symbol, a bison and a hind (more will be said of this anon). The arrangement of this group seems to correspond to a threefold or ternary structure with variations: bos-equus-cervus with various signs or bos-equus-anthropomorph"
"the red cross represents England, the disk surmounting it is in a pattern called ""vair,"" a type of heraldic fur (literally squirrel fur), and representing the territory's wealth of fur-bearing animals. The crest is an Alaskan Malamute dog standing on a mound of snow. Shield: ""Azure, on a pallet wavy Argent, a like pallet of the field, issuant from base two piles reversed Gules, fimbriated also Argent, each charged with two bezants in pale, on a chief Argent a cross Gules, surmounted of a roundel vair."" Crest: ""On a wreath Or and Gules, standing on a mound of snow Proper,"
"Flag of the Isle of Man The flag of the Isle of Man or flag of Mann () is a triskelion, composed of three armoured legs with golden spurs, upon a red background. It has been the official flag of Mann since 1 December 1932 and is based on the Manx coat of arms, which dates back to the 13th century. The three legs are known in Manx as """" (""the three legs""). The triskelion is an ancient symbol, used by the Mycenaeans and the Lycians. It is not known for certain why the symbol was originally adopted on the"
"José Rizal's book criticizing the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. The phrase evokes a cancer of the eyelids, for which ophthalmologists used the phrase; it symbolizes the people's blindness to the ruling government, which Rizal deemed the social cancer that people were too afraid to touch. Historically, the phrase was used by Revolutionary-Era Americans in reference to the Gadsden flag—with its derivation ""don't tread on me""—and other representations dating to the American War for Independence. In the United States military, the phrase is the motto of the US Army's oldest infantry regiment, the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard),"
"rampant with a riband bearing the motto of the Order of the Thistle, ""Nemo me impune lacessit"". Above there was a crest showing helmet surmounted by a crown; the supporters were unicorns. This was slightly modified in August 1866 and from September 1888 a further riband was added below the motto; this bore the words ""Caledonian Railway Company"". From the base of the shield hung a medallion of St Andrew. A lion sejant affronted was superimposed on the crest above which was the inscription ""In Defence"" [sic]. The motto was now worded ""Nemo me impune lacesset"" but this was corrected"
"of the Dutch Republic) Johan de Witt protecting the country from its enemies. Three inscriptions had been added: the words ""de raad-pensionaris"" (the grand pensionary) between the swan's legs, the words ""de viand van de staat"" (the enemy of the state) above the head of the dog on the left, and the name ""Holland"" on the egg on the right. In the 1790s this painting was in the collection of Jan Gildemeester and was included in the 1800 catalog of paintings (ordered alphabetically by artist) produced for his estate sale, though it was not included in Adriaan de Lelie's 1794"
"Victory Fund, which supports Northam, released an ad in which a pickup truck, adorned with a Gillespie bumper sticker, a ""Don't tread on me"" license plate, and a Confederate flag, chases down minority children and corners them in an alley—one of the children in the ad then wakes up, revealing the scene to have been a nightmare. Although Northam and his campaign were not involved with the ad, Northam initially defended it, saying Gillespie's own ads ""have promoted fearmongering, hatred, bigotry, racial divisiveness,"" and adding, ""I mean, it's upset a lot of communities, and they have the right to express"
"considered off limits. Any personnel other than chief petty officers (Sinbad's rank while he was a crewmember onboard) who touch the statue and his bone are said to be stricken with bad luck... you just don't touch it."" Sinbad died on 30 December 1951 and was buried beneath a granite monument at the base of the light station's flagpole. The decommissioned station has since become the emergency operations center for the Borough of Barnegat Light, New Jersey. Sinbad (dog) Sinbad (c. 1937 – 30 December 1951) was a mixed-breed dog that was one of two animals to be classified as"
"12-10-3, the design now widely known as the United Tribes Flag was chosen. British, American, and French representatives witnessed the ceremony, which included a 21-gun salute from the ""Alligator"". The flag was based in part on the St George's Cross that was already used by the Church Missionary Society, with a canton featuring a smaller red cross on a blue background fimbriated in black, and with a white eight-pointed star in each quarter of the canton. When officially gazetted in New South Wales in August 1835, the description did not mention the fimbriation or the number of points on the"
"flag, only an image by English artist Thomas Hart in the background of a portrait of Commodore Esek Hopkins. In that same painting is a round ""tree flag"". The triangular Liberty Tree flag is derived from the only surviving tree flag from the Revolution, found in an old trunk in 1993 on Long Island, the 5th Regt. Connecticut Militia. The Snake on Stripes flag was included in a book of flags by Admiral Preble, but later Preble determined the flag not valid, so he removed it from his text. However, the book publisher used the old color plates, so the"
"on a silver shield, treading on a green snake surrounded by eight green trefoils. The correct heraldic description is ""Field argent a lion rampant sable treading on a serpent in fess proper between eight trefoils vert"". The crest which surmounts the helmet over the shield depicts a red crescent surrounding a green snake or, to give its heraldic definition, ""A crescent gules out of the horns a serpent erect proper"". The motto of the clan in Latin is ""Mea Gloria Fides"" (""The Faith is My Glory""). While in Irish it is ""Buaidh nó Bás"" (""Victory or death""). Gallagher (surname) Gallagher"
"Patrick Henry as the prime agitators for American independence by historians. Gadsden designed the ""Don't Tread on Me"" flag, first used on December 3, 1775, on the ""Alfred"", featuring a rattlesnake with 13 rattles representing each colony. In 1767, the Townsend Acts levied new taxes on glass, oil, wine, tea, paper, and other goods. Gadsden led the opposition and although Britain removed the taxes on everything except tea, Charlestonians mirrored the Boston Tea Party by dumping a shipment of tea into the Cooper River. Other shipments were allowed to land, but they rotted in Charles Town storehouses. Delegates from twelve"
"brass fleur-de-lis badges, the first use of the Scout emblem. They also wore a coloured knot on their shoulder indicating their patrol: green for Bulls, blue for Wolves, yellow for Curlews, and red for Ravens. The patrol leader carried a staff with a flag depicting the patrol animal. After passing tests on knots, tracking, and the national flag, they were given another brass badge, a scroll with the words Be Prepared, to wear below the fleur-de-lis. Each patrol camped in an army bell tent. The camp began each day with a blast from a kudu horn that Baden-Powell had found"
"of one of the songs, but eventually chose an eponym because they ""wanted to keep it simple."" The album's cover depicts the band's logo angled against the upper left corner and a coiled snake derived from the Gadsden flag in the bottom right corner. Both emblems are dark gray so they stand out against the black background, giving ""Metallica"" the nickname """"The Black Album"""". These emblems also appear on the back cover of the album. The motto of the Gadsden flag, ""Don't Tread on Me"", is also the title of a song on the album. A folded, pageless booklet depicts"
"the United Kingdom and discovery, together with two golden estoiles from the arms of James Cook who discovered the islands. The background of the shield is blue and white lozenges. The supporters are an Antarctic fur seal standing on a mountain, and a macaroni penguin standing on ice, both animals native to the islands. The crest is a reindeer, from the two herds of reindeer found on South Georgia Island. The motto is ""Leo Terram Propriam Protegat"" (Latin: “[Let the] Lion protect his own land”). The coat of arms is used in the fly of the flag of South Georgia"
"U.S. Army training command. The drill sergeant identification badge is worn by all qualified drill sergeants. Each element of the badge has a specific meaning. It consists of 13 stars representing the original colonies. The torch, burning brightly, in the center symbolizes liberty. The snake is derived from the original ”Don’t Tread On Me” serpent on the Gadsden flag, a symbol of American independence during the 18th century. Together with the torch and breastplate, it indicated readiness to defend. The breastplate is a symbol of strength. The green background is a vestment worn under the breastplate. It's called a Jupon,"
"furs, multiple crests, inseparability of the crest, and repetition of charges in the shield and the crest. Mullets have six points (rather than five as in Gallo-British heraldry), and beasts may be colored with patterns, (barry, bendy, paly, chequy, ""etc.""). As in other European heraldic traditions, the most prominent among the birds and beasts are the eagle and lion. These two charges in particular had a special significance in Germany, where the eagle became symbolic of the Holy Roman Empire, and the lion came to represent certain feudal lords. As the political divide between these groups grew in the late"