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OOOOk-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet, When the wind comes right behind the rain.OOOOk-lahoma, Ev’ry night my honey lamb and I, Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk makin’ lazy circles in the sky. We know we belong to the land (yo-ho)And the land…

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…

“Somerset is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorsetto the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. The largest settlement is the city of Bath, and the county town is Taunton. Somerset is full of the ancient history of England. There are many artifacts in the Natural History Museum in London including the…

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.).…

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…