Signal flag "Lima": Difference between revisions

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Signal flag "Lima" (called the "Yellow Jack") indicating a ship is under quarantine

Signal flag "Lima"

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 [[Image:Signal_flag_lima.jpg|thumb|Signal flag "Lima" (called the "Yellow Jack") indicating a ship is under quarantine]]
-'''Signal flag "Lima"''' called the "Yellow Jack" which when flown in harbor means ship is under quarantine
+'''Signal flag "Lima"'''
-'''Quarantine''' is compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian (seventeenth century Venetian) quarantena, meaning '''forty-day period'''. Quarantine can be applied to humans, but also to animals of various kinds.
-The yellow and black design connote "disease and death"
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