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On this Memorial Day, 2025 I fly the ‘Lest We Forget’ flag. The phrase comes from a poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1897. It is repeated at the end of each of the five stanzas. Stanza one: “God of our fathers, known of old,    Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we…

The Comoros,officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The religion of the majority of the population, and the official state religion, is Sunni Islam. Comoros proclaimed its independence from France on 6 July 1975.  A very…

The Republic of Ecuador (aka Ecuador). A country in the northwest corner of South America. The Galápagos Islands are a part of this country. It is bordered by Columbia to the north, Peru to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Amerindians have inhabited this area of South America for thousands of years.…

“Brittany is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as a separate nation under the crown. Brittany is the traditional homeland of the Breton peopleand is one of the six Celtic nations, retaining a…

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. Host…

Pays de Leon (The County of Leon) “a feudal state  [Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange…

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 times…

It is Victoria day in Canada. Victoria Day (French: Fête de la Reine, lit. ‘Celebration of the Queen’) is a federal Canadian public holiday observed on the last Monday preceding May 25 to honour Queen Victoria, who is known as the “Mother of Confederation“. The holiday has existed in Canada since at least 1845, originally on Victoria’s natural birthday, May 24. It…

Wrexham AFC (Associated Football Club). A professional association football club based in Wrexham, Wales. Formed in 1864, it is the oldest club in Wales and the third-oldest professional association football team in the world. The club will compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system in the 2025–26 season following three promotions in the past three seasons. The Welsh…

The Flag of Palestine. A tricolor of three equal horizontal stripes (black, white, and green from top to bottom) overlaid by a red triangle issuing from the hoist. This flag is derived from the Pan-Arab colors and is used to represent the State of Palestine and the Palestinian people. It was first adopted on 28…