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honor guard

organization, usually military in nature, appointed to receive or guard a head of state or other dignitary, the fallen in war, or to attend at state ceremonies, especially funerals
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honor guard

Summary

honor guard is a military unit type class[1]. It draws 276 Wikipedia views per month (military_unit_type_class category, ranking #9 of 41).[2]

Key Facts

  • honor guard's instance of is recorded as military unit type class[3].
  • honor guard's GND ID is recorded as 4405218-2[4].
  • honor guard's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2002004237[5].
  • honor guard's subclass of is recorded as military unit[6].
  • honor guard's Commons category is recorded as Honour guards[7].
  • honor guard's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 72810[8].
  • honor guard's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c48dn[9].
  • honor guard's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Guards of honour[10].
  • honor guard's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10647091[11].
  • honor guard's Iconclass notation is recorded as 45B55[12].
  • honor guard's FAST ID is recorded as 960013[13].
  • honor guard's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00042057n[14].
  • honor guard's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm005094[15].
  • honor guard's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007537472505171[16].
  • honor guard's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 242541[17].
  • honor guard's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 23750[18].
  • honor guard's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/0718e074-4393-4087-bcac-c89805cf0682[19].

Why It Matters

honor guard draws 276 Wikipedia views per month (military_unit_type_class category, ranking #9 of 41).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Library of Congress Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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