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An unusual symbol on a flag with a fascinating history : The Isle of Man. “Isle of Man, one of the British Isles, located in the Irish Sea off the northwest coast of England. The island lies roughly equidistant between England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom but rather is a crown possession (since 1828) that is…

“Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, island country lying within the Lesser Antilles, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It consists of the island of Saint Vincent and the northern Grenadine Islands, which stretch southward toward Grenada. The island of Saint Vincent lies about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Saint Lucia and 100 miles (160 km) west of Barbados. It is 18 miles (30 km) long and…

Birmingham colloquially known as Brum, is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands metropolitan county, and approximately 4.3 million in the wider metropolitan…

The Kingdom Of Bhutan. A landlocked country in the Eastern Himalaya’s. China is to the north and India is to the south. Bhutia, Himalayan people who are believed to have emigrated southward from Tibet in the 8th or 9th century CE. The Bhutia constitute a majority of the population of Bhutan, where they live mainly in the western and central regions…

A fun fiction flag: The Vulcan Flag from the TV/Movies program, Star Trek “Out of the many races and cultures present within the Star Trek universe, one of the most stable and memorable has to be the Vulcans. Sure, the hive-minded Borg and the honor-bound, forehead ridged Klingons play important roles throughout the franchise, but it is the steady…

A fun fictional flag, The United Federation of Planets. The planetary government agency that launched the most famous vehicle of Starfleet: The Enterprise. Onboard this interstellar ship was Captain James T Kirk and his Chief Science Officer: The Vulcan, Mr. Spock. Star Trek, American television science-fiction series that ran on NBC for only three seasons (1966–69) but that became…

The Refugee Nation. A 2015 proposal to begin to solve the global refugee crisis. The United Nations estimates there are 122.6 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, of which 43.7 million are refugees. The number sadly continues to grow. The number of refugees has actually tripled over the last decade. The Refugee Nation is an idea…

The Co-operative Republic of Guyana. A country on the northern mainland of South America the capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Brazil to the south and southwest, Venezuela to the west, and Suriname to the east. Both Christopher Columbus and Sir Walter Raleigh visited Guyana. There are…

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, established in 1885 commonly known as CAL FIRE, is the state fire department responsible for protecting over 31 million acres of California’s privately-owned wildlands. In addition to wildfire suppression and prevention, CAL FIRE provides various emergency services in 36 of the state’s 58 counties through contracts with…

The greatest realm of Men in the West of Middle-earth at the end of the third age: Gondor. J.R.R Tolkien named it Gondor which translates in his fictional language as ‘Land of Stone’. Gondor was founded by the brothers Isildur and Anarion. From a once powerful place it fell into ruins due to allies of…