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Semaphore Flags is the system for conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands. Information is encoded by the position of the flags; it is read when the flag is in a fixed position. So each letter of the alphabet was formed by positioning the two flags; then the next letter was formed; and on and on.

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