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The National Women’s Rights Flag. It is closely associated with the Women’s Suffrage Movement of the early 1900s, leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920. The colors began to take shape early in the movement. Purple, White, and Gold became the symbols and appeared on various designs throughout the…

When I first started collecting flags I decided to fly the flag of the home state of whichever family member’s birthday it was. Today is my girlfriend/wife’s birthday. “The area was first occupied by a succession of Native American tribes over thousands of years. Inhabited by Natives, Métis, and French explorers in the 17th century,…

The Republic of Kiribati, an independent island nation composed of islands, atolls and coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Kiribati is another place where despite there being humans there for thousands of years, once England found it to be of strategic importance it well…took it. It was a good port to stop at while in…

Malaysia. A Federal Constitutional Monarchy in Southeast Asia. Another country colonized first by Portugal, then The Dutch and finally ‘stolen’ by Great Britain. After it gained it’s independence from the English in 1957, it reorganized as The Federation of Malay. The name “Malaysia” is a combination of the word “Malays” and the Latin-Greek suffix “-ia“/”-ία“which…

The Refugee Nation. A 2015 proposal to begin to solve the global refugee crisis. The United Nations estimates there are 80 Million people who have been displaced from their homes by various situations. The Refugee Nation is the idea to create a new nation to voluntarily resettle the world’s displaced people. Refugee Nation was launched…

A friend sent me this poem. A Word on Statistics (trs. by Joanna Trzeciak) BY WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA TRANSLATED BY JOANNA TRZECIAK Out of every hundred people those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: almost all the rest. Ready to help, if it doesn’t take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they cannot be otherwise: four—well,…

The Pride Progress flag was designed by Daniel Quasar in 2018. The flag places 5 half sized stripes in an arrow shape to represent Trans and non-binary individuals, marginalized people of color communities as well as those living with AIDS. The arrow shape is placed on top of the traditional rainbow LGBTQ flag on the…

On this Memorial Day, 2024 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 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,…

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…