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What Flag Is That 12.23.21
The Republic Of Fiji, an island country in the Melanesia part of Oceania in the South Pacific. It is composed of an archipelago of 330 islands, 110 of which are inhabited. The indigenous people are the Austronesians then Melanesians with some Polynesian influence. Family clans or tribes ruled various islands for most of the early…
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What Flag Is That 12.22.21
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Known as the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean.’ Located at the bottom of the continent of India, due to it’s unique location it has always been a major trading hub. It is on the ‘Maritime Silk Road’. Human settlements have been found dating back 125,000 years. It is…
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What Flag Is That 12.21.21
The Commonwealth of Dominica. [Not to be confused with The Dominican Republic]. It is an island country in the Caribbean. It’s ‘nickname’ is ‘Nature Isle of the Caribbean’ for it’s lush vegetation and rare plants and animals. It was formed by geothermal volcanic activity. It contains the second largest hot spring in the world called…
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What Flag Is That 12.20.21
An excellent example of the process of flag redesign: ‘The Peoples Milwaukee Flag’. Individuals decided that the flag of the city of Milwaukee needed a radical ‘do-over’. They went about designing a modern good flag for the city. In 1954 the city adopted the city flag. They threw everything they could think of onto a…
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What Flag Is That 12.18.21
The ‘Resist’ flag from my friends at Flags For Good. It is a perfect example of the concept and logic of flag design. To have a symbol of something you want to emphasize and have it be a ‘good flag’ takes some thought. The idea of resisting the wrong – standing for the right is…
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What Flag Is That 12.16.21
The Hellenic Republic (the official name of Greece.) A country located in southeast Europe. The largest city is Athens with the second largest being Thessaloniki. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia…
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What Flag Is that 12.15.21
The Republic of Zimbabwe, a land locked country in Southern Africa. It is a relatively new country with 16 official languages. The land has a long and unfortunate history and was the area that saw the worst of the British system of colonization. In 1890 a British Trading Company owned by Cecil Rhodes walked onto…
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What Flag Is That 12.13.21
The city of St Louis, Missouri. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. Once the White European businesses discovered the rich potential of the land, especially the fur trade, they brought people to populate the area. At first it was the French. The French ‘lost’ the area to the Spanish…
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What Flag Is that 12.12.21
The largest state, by area, in the United States: Alaska. The US ‘purchased’ the territory from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre). Of course it had been the home of indigenous people for thousands of years. Proportionally it has the highest indigenous population in the country. Alaska is larger than Texas,…
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What Flag is That 12.11.21
The most populous and third largest by land area state: California. If it was a separate nation, it would have the fifth richest economy in the world. It is a place of unsurpassed natural beauty. California is situated on an amazing plot of land with a unique geographic feature and climate that produces a huge…
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