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The flag of the County of Norfolk in England. It is the top tier of government of Norfolk County, of which Norwich is the main city. The flag is a bi-color, gold and black field with a white ‘bend’ bearing 9 black ermine spots in alternating pairs of singles and doubles. (Yes Ermine – the…

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of 1,104,300 square kilometres (426,400 sq mi). As of 2024, it has around 128 million inhabitants, making it…

County Kerry (Irish: Contae Chiarraí) is a county on the southwest coast of Ireland, within the province of Munster and the Southern Region. It is bordered by two other counties; Limerick to the east, and Cork to the south and east. It is separated from Clare to the north by the Shannon Estuary. The county is named after the Cíarraige people, who were the region’s dominant pre-historic sept. (A sept is an Irish Clan.).…

The flag that has become known as ‘The Star Spangled Banner’. It is most likely close to the original flag that Betsy Ross finally completed. Our flag has been changed 27 times since its first ideation. It has been the official flag for 61 years. *It was designed by a musician who wrote satirical songs,…

Life is so enjoyable once you no longer need to be cool.  Garrison Keillor 

“If we asked you what you thought Mandy Patinkin’s favorite line from The Princess Bride, you would probably say it starts with, “Hello, my name is…” but it’s actually,  “I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.”…

“If we are to leave a beautiful world for you and your grandchildren, we have to take seriously the fact that creation does not belong to us; we are part of creation. “  Ghanaian theologian Mercy Oduyoye

A flag the North American Vexillological Association ranks as the number 1 in the USA. The state flag of New Mexico. (In Navajo: Yooto’ Hahoodzo) New Mexico was founded in 1610, long before the US. It is a mountain state that is part of the area called the “Four Corners’, an amazingly magnificent land. First…

Saint Helena is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory. The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) or alternatively referred to as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are the fourteen territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its…

Scotland Football Club. Our granddaughter Haley taught us to love soccer – Everywhere else in the world it is called ‘Football’ . The word ‘soccer’ was most likely derived as an abbreviation for the formal title ‘association football’. “Modern football originated in Britain in the 19th century. Though “folk football” had been played since medieval…