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Today is a major holiday for Flag Nerds in England. It is National Historic County Flag Day. You’ve never heard of that one…too bad, it is a Biggie. Surrounding the Parliament Building in downtown London they are flying flags of Historic Counties. I have most of them in my collection and have flown them on…

An American flag older that the ‘Stars and Stripes‘. The continental flag sometimes referred to as The 3rd New England Flag. The story goes it was a flag carried into the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War.…

Today is my sister Bonnie’s, (the one with her eyes closed-dreaming again,) birthday. It is an easy date to recall if you have reached ‘geezerdom’ because something happened on this date in 1969. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the truth can now be told, in true Nostradamus form, my little sister at age 10 began seeing…

The Kingdom of Belgium. A country in Western Europe bordered by The Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest and the North Sea to the northwest. It is divided into three autonomous regions: Flanders in the north, Wallonia in the south and Brussels-Capital region. The flag…

The Kingdom of Norway (the official name of Norway.). This familiar Nordic country in the north of Europe is bordered by Sweden on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. The country was established in 872 so it has been a continuous country for 1,153 years. It is where the Vikings come from.…

Today at 1:00 pm, Mountain Time the final match of the 2026 World Cup begins. “It makes it back-to-back finals for the best player in the sport, Lionel Messi, who won his first in Qatar in 2022, and a first appearance for Spain’s prodigy Lamine Yamal.” The world’s most popular sport has been closely watched…

The Continental Union Flag (often referred to as the first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) was the flag of the United Colonies from 1775 to 1776, and the de factoflag of the United States until 1777, when the 13-star flag was adopted by the Continental Congress. The flag of Great Britain, often referred to as the King’s Colour, Union Flag, Union Jack, and British flag (retroactively prefixed as being…

Today, July 17, is the birthday of the Queen of the United Kingdom/Northern Ireland, Camilla. Camilla Rosemary Shand was born and raised in East Sussex. She is no stranger to the spotlight and controversies. In 1973 she married British Army officer, Andrew Parker Bowles, becoming Camilla Parker Bowles. They divorced in 1995. In 1986, Camilla…

From our dear friend Erin Major, who wrote, directed and supervised the entire production. It is well worth a look see. https://youtu.be/9NmfduGp-dA?is=bwKosLZAgjP4z-CU

Kent (Ancient Greek: Κάντιον, romanized: Kántion) is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surreyto the west, and Greater London to the north-west. The county has an area of 3,544 square kilometres (1,368 sq mi) and had population of 1,875,893 in 2022, making it the fifth most populous county in England.…