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That answers that.


In the February February: see month.  27 issue Mr. Dalrymple wonders where one would get a Danish flag to burn in Damascus. And an editorial asks, "How many Danish flags are normally available in Gaza, or Jakarta?" The answer: As many as you can make.

The Dannebrog ("banner of the Danes"), the oldest national flag in Europe, is a simple white cross on a red field. Looking closely at the photo in Mr. Dalrymple's article of such a flag being burned, one can see that the burner A drive that writes write-once optical discs such as CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. A "burner" implies a one-time recording, but the term is erroneously used to refer to drives that "write" to re-recordable CD-RW and DVD-RW/+RW media as well. See burn, CD-R and DVD-R.  has merely stuck two strips of white tape on a piece of red cardboard Cardboard is a generic non-specific term for a heavy duty paper based product. Paperboard

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Paperboard is a paper based material. It is often used for folding cartons, set-up boxes, carded packaging, etc.
. The "flag" burner is holding it by the edge and it is standing stiffly upright upright

said of limb joints and bones, especially in the horse. Indicates a lack of angulation in the joint, e.g. upright hock, or slope in a bone, e.g. upright pastern. In horses, often associated with a bumpy ride and a tendency to joint injury and lameness.
. Try that with an actual cloth flag.

Dick Eney

Bladensburg, Md.
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