Over-coats were strewn over chairs and gloves and leather flag pole holsters lay around the floor.

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Run these up your flag pole Mr. and Mrs.

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The last driver to earn the Daytona 500 pole and take the checkered flag was Dale Jarrett in 2000.

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Patrick became the first woman to win a pole and lead green-flag laps during NASCAR's season opener, sending her popularity to a new level.

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It was 70 years ago, in 1937, that Ivan Papanin first landed on drifting ice floes and raised the Soviet flag over the North Pole-1 station.

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It plans to send two mini-submarines under the North Pole to scoop samples and deposit the Russian flag.

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There are Hawaiian leis in the colours of the German flag, life-size porcelain dogs and alarm clocks topped with pole-dancing dolls.

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Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.

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Starting from pole, Lorenzo retook the lead after losing it to Dani Pedrosa and was unchallenged to the flag.

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