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What Flag is that 10.09.2025 Leif Erikson Day
Iceland, island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean. Lying on the constantly active geologic border between North America and Europe, Iceland is a land of vivid contrasts of climate, geography, and culture. Sparkling glaciers, such as Vatna Glacier (Vatnajökull), Europe’s largest, lie across its ruggedly beautiful mountain ranges; abundant hot geysers provide heat for many of the country’s homes and buildings…
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What flag is that, 10.08.2025
“London (/ˈlʌndən/LUN-dən) is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 8,866,180 in 2022. The wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its…
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What flag is that 10.07.2025
Essex (/ˈɛsɪks/ⓘESS-iks) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. It is borderedby Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the south, Greater London to the south-west, and Hertfordshire to the west. Essex is a low-lying county with a flat coastline. It contains pockets of ancient woodland, including Epping Forest in the south-west, and in the north-east shares Dedham Valearea of outstanding natural…
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What Flag Is That 10.06.2025
Ireland. An island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George’s Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. With a human history dating back to 10,500 BC, it…
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What Flag Is That 10.05.2025
Kvalsund (NorthernSami: Fálesnuorri and Kven: Valasnuora) is a former municipality in the old Finnmark county in Norway. The municipality is now part of Hammerfest Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county. The municipality existed from 1869 until its dissolution in 2020. Fishing and historically Whaling were major ‘industries’ of the village. The name comes from old…
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What flag is that 10.04.2025
The Dannebrog (Danish: Dannebrog, pronounced [ˈtænəˌpʁoˀ]) is the flag of Denmark. The flag is red with a white Nordic cross, which means that the cross extends to the edges of the flag and that the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side. In the official calendar of Denmark, there are over twenty flag-flying days. They include national holidays, certain religious holidays,…
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Quote #16
“Just when you think it can’t get nobetter, then it does.” John Hartford, ‘Joseph’s Dream’
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Quote #16
“You are the place where I stand when my feet are sore”. Pádraig Ó Tuama [From 2014 to 2019, Ó Tuama was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization, which works with over ten thousand people a year to transform division through human encounters, with focuses on sectarianism, marginalization, public…
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What flag is that 10.01.2025
In honor of World Vexillology Day, 2024 VEXILLOLOGY: The scientific study of the history, symbolism, and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general. — Whitney Smith, Flags Through the Ages and Across the World, 1975 I have met with and talked to ‘Flag People’ from all over the world. I…
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