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What Flag is that. 01.16.2025
“Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean. Metropolitan Denmark, also called “continental Denmark” or “Denmark proper”, consists of the northern Jutlandpeninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying…
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What flag is that 01.15.2025
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,…
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What Flag Is That 01.14.2025
The Royal Banner of Scotland. Also called the Red Rampant Lion Flag. It represents the Royal (Monarchy) Family of Scotland. Scotland is a country within the United Kingdom, covering the northern third of Great Britain. It is a difficult concept for us in the US to think about a country within a country. The name…
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What Flag That. 01.13.2025.
The State of Illinois. A midwestern state, one of the many states we have lived in. The word Illinois most likely was borrowed from the Ojibwe language by French Missionaries. The word irenwe-wa is something they heard the Indigenous people say, the French added their transliterative ‘ois’ and came up with Illinois. (The Ojibwe word…
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What Flag Is That 01.12.2025
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…
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What Flag Is That 01.11.2025
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…
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What Flag Is that 01.10.2025
NOAA: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The American scientific agency that is a part of the Department of Commerce. It was formed in October of 1970 to improve the stewardship of the environment. NOAA has five fundamental activities: One of NOAA’s most prominent services is The National Weather Service. They are the ones with…
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What Flag Is That 01.09.2025
New York (City) Police Department. NYPD is the largest and one of the oldest municipal police departments in the United States, with approximately 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees. The NYPD was established in 1845, and today, is responsible for policing an 8.5-million-person city, by performing a wide variety of public safety, law enforcement, traffic…
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