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Vexillum

(1) An obsolete name for a military banner.

(2) A small unit in an army of knights in medieval Poland and Lithuania; from the 16th to 18th centuries, a small unit in the Polish-Lithuanian Army, corresponding to a company.

(3) A rectangular or triangular piece of cloth bearing the image of Christ or a saint, attached to a long staff by means of a crosspiece ; a religious banner carried during processions.

Table 1. Planted area, grain production, and state grain purchases in the primary regions of development of virgin and barren lands
	Planted area (million hectares)			Grain yield (million tons)			State grain purchases (million tons)
	1950	1960	1976	1950	1960	1976	1950	1960	1976
USSR ...............	32.4	60.3	64.3	25.6	58.7	82.6	11.3	29.0	43.9
RSFSR ...............	26.4	38.4	38.8	20.9	40.0	52.8	9.2	18.5	24.3
Siberia and the Far East ...............	12.1	19.1	18.0	9.9	19.4	18.5	4.7	8.8	5.2
Urals ...............	6.1	8.6	9.3	6.0	10.5	14.5	2.4	5.0	7.6
Volga region ...............	8.2	10.7	11.5	5.0	10.1	19.8	2.1	4.7	11.5
Kazakh SSR ...............	6.0	21.0	25.5	4.7	18.7	29.8	2.1	10.5	19.6

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No references found	A 1947 watercolor, Vexilla Regis, for example, is crowded with a checklist of Roman and Christian symbols and does not quite work to convey any living symbolic heritage. David Jones & the sacrament of art by Russello, Gerald J. / New Criterion Juvenal's Otho seems a good military commander: he gives orders to his troops, arms himself in a mighty armor, and courageously rides into battle--but not before making sure that his armor looks impeccable (ille tenet speculum, pathici gestamen Othonis, / Actoris Aurunci spolium, quo ille se videbat / armatum, cum iam tolli vexilla iuberet; 2,99-101). Roman fever: Petronius' Satyricon and Gore Vidal's The City and the ... by Endres, Nikolai / Ancient Narrative 37) Grassaille: "Supra vexilla invictissimi Regis Franciae, nemo praesumat honorem: sua enim umbra, totum orbem regit . On the evolution of toads in the French Renaissance* by Randall, Michael / Renaissance Quarterly	Veterinary Sanitary Plant Veterinary Sanitation Institute Veterinary Science Veterinary Service Veterinary Station Veterinary Statistics veterinary surgeon Veterinary-Sanitary Inspection vetiver oil Vetiveria vetivert Vetka Vetluga Vetluga Series Vetluzhskii Veto Vetoshkin, Mikhail Kuzmich Vetranovic-Cavcic, Nikola Vetrenyi Zone Vetrova, Mariia Vetrova, Mariia Fedoseevna Veuster, Damien de Vevey Vevis vexatious vexilla Vexillum Vexin Vezhev, Aleksandr Vezhev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vezhinov, Pavel Vezire Nadr Vezirov, Mir Gasan Kiazim Ogly VF VFAT VFR VFR between layers VFR on top VFR terminal minimums VFR weather VFX VG VGA VGA card VGA feature connector VGA HC VGA monitor VGA pass-through VGA port VGC Vgik	vexatious vexatious Vexatious litigant Vexatious litigant vexatious litigation vexatious litigation vexatious litigation Vexatious suit Vexatious suits vexatiously vexatiously vexatiously vexatiousness vexatiousness vexatiousness VEXE VEXE vexed vexed Vexed question vexedly vexedly vexer vexer vexers vexers vexes vexes Vexil Vexilary aestivation vexilla Vexillar vexillaries vexillary vexillate Vexillatio Vexillation Vexillographer Vexillography Vexillogy vexillological Vexillological Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina Vexillological Association of the State of Texas vexillologist vexillologists vexillology vexillum vexillum vexillum Vexilology Vexin Véxin Vexin français Vexin Normand vexing vexing vexingly vexingly Vexio

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A 1947 watercolor, Vexilla Regis, for example, is crowded with a checklist of Roman and Christian symbols and does not quite work to convey any living symbolic heritage.

David Jones & the sacrament of art by Russello, Gerald J. / New Criterion

Juvenal's Otho seems a good military commander: he gives orders to his troops, arms himself in a mighty armor, and courageously rides into battle--but not before making sure that his armor looks impeccable (ille tenet speculum, pathici gestamen Othonis, / Actoris Aurunci spolium, quo ille se videbat / armatum, cum iam tolli vexilla iuberet; 2,99-101).

Roman fever: Petronius' Satyricon and Gore Vidal's The City and the ... by Endres, Nikolai / Ancient Narrative

37) Grassaille: "Supra vexilla invictissimi Regis Franciae, nemo praesumat honorem: sua enim umbra, totum orbem regit .

On the evolution of toads in the French Renaissance* by Randall, Michael / Renaissance Quarterly

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