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I've always found the history and meaning of flags to be quite fascinating. Let's start off with the island of Sicily. The flag is characterized by the presence of the triskelion (trinacria) in its middle, the (winged) head of Medusa (Gorgon) and three wheat ears. The three bent legs allegedly represent the three points of the triangular shape of the island of Sicily, or the historical three valli of the island.




The Isle of Man has a very similar flag but the man is absent.The flag of the Isle of Man or flag of Mann (Manx: brattagh Vannin) is a triskelion, composed of three armoured legs with golden spurs, upon a red background. It has been the official flag of Mann since 1 December 1932 and is based on the Manx coat of arms, which dates back to the 13th century.




Does anyone have any other flags that they would like to share?

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Obviously not a county but I've always liked the official Washington D.C. flag. The design was taken from the coat of arms of the family of George Washington.

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(07-17-2017 03:04 PM)numanist Wrote:  Does anyone have any other flags that they would like to share?

Tokyo Joe lays claim to an amputee flag - shared with the forum here:
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Finland Flag and Description. The off-centered blue cross is based on the Scandinavian Cross, a cross widely used on Scandinavian country flags. The blue color is symbolic of blue skies, and the thousands of lakes in Finland. The white represents the winter snows.



The Greek flag has nine horizontal blue and white stripes, with a white cross on a blue square field in the canton position (upper left corner by the flagpole). The white cross symbolizes Greek Orthodoxy, the established religion of Greece.

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For the Greek flag, what do the horizontal lines represent?

There is a science behind the perfect flag. Of course history can play refrence but certain design elements are classic and will make the difference between something that may last 1000 years and one that will be forgotten in a generation.

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How does one resize an image?

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Another notable flag is Mozambique, which features a Kalashnikov assault rifle:



(It's obviously an ugly commie flag...)

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Ukraine explained in the bottom image:

   

   

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I thought this thread was going to be about the meaning or importance of notch counts a man gets when he bangs girls from different countries.

Now that I see it's about actual real literal fabric flags on flagpoles I'm all like..

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ah haha and I thought it was about the flag memes I've seen around lately



the Taoist influence on the South Korean flag



and the DC one is interesting when I ended up in youtube world claiming the three stars represent the city states of DC, London, and Vatican City.

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Well, seeing as Vatican City got mentioned...



The coat of arms on the right is essentially that of the Pope's office (as opposed to a particular Pope's coat of arms; they each get their own as they're elected. As a point of interest, if you go look at any given Pope's coat of arms, the placement of St. Peter's keys on his coat of arms is always reversed - gold on the right, silver on the left - to distinguish the arms of the office itself from the holder of that office.)

The two keys refer to the Biblical passage in which Jesus says he grants the keys of heaven to St. Peter: "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on Earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven." The colours are different to represent spiritual and temporal power: gold for spiritual, silver for temporal. Above both of them is the Papal crown, which no Pope has used since Paul VI back in 1963.

The red cord is a reference to Rome. Prior to about 1800, the Papal colours were yellow and red, those being the traditional colours of the Roman Senate and the Roman people. (One of the Pope's own titles, Pontifex Maximus, comes from the Latin and dates back to the Roman Empire.) Compare - though it may not be specifically connected - the Spanish flag with its Latin influence and similar colours of red/yellow/red. Around 1800 the Pope started using the alternative colours, but the red cord remains signifying Rome's influence in the history of the Catholic Church.

God save us from people who mean well. -storm

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(07-17-2017 08:39 PM)Mercenary Wrote:  I thought this thread was going to be about the meaning or importance of notch counts a man gets when he bangs girls from different countries.

Now that I see it's about actual real literal fabric flags on flagpoles I'm all like..

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And to double post...



Adopted 1903. Until then we essentially fought under the Union Jack, which remains in the upper left corner; I'll leave someone else to analyse the three saints who go into that.

The Commonwealth Star under the Jack is seven pointed to represent the six states and the seventh for any future territories of Australia. Before about 1908 the star had (((six))) points for the six states, take from that what you will.

The collection of stars on the right is the Southern Cross, or the Crux as it's called in the northern hemisphere. Per Wikipedia:

Quote:The Southern Cross is one of the most distinctive constellations visible in the Southern Hemisphere,[6] and has been used to represent Australia since the early days of British settlement.[6] Ivor Evans, one of the flag's designers, intended the Southern Cross to also refer to the four moral virtues ascribed to the four main stars by Dante: justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude.[14] The number of points on the stars of the Southern Cross on the modern Australian flag differs from the original competition-winning design, in which they ranged between five and nine points each, representing their relative brightness in the night sky.[6] The stars are named after the first five letters of the Greek alphabet, in decreasing order of brightness in the sky.[15] In order to simplify manufacture, the British Admiralty standardised the four larger outer stars at seven points each, leaving the smaller, more central star with five points. This change was officially gazetted on 23 February 1903.

This is a fucking boring flag.

I somewhat prefer this one:



The Eureka flag, the one raised by miners rebelling against the government over exorbitant mining licences, and arguably the first really Australian flag, still raised from time to time by the resident prisoners here. Again the Southern Cross, but you'll notice something distinctive missing from it.

And I have to give our native population Harold Thomas some grudging admiration for being able to design a (fairly recent) flag for Aboriginal Australians that's a bit simpler and meaningful:



Red for the land, black for the skin of the people, yellow for the sun. There was a smileworthy moment in the film Event Horizon -- blink and you'll miss it -- where Sam Neill, one of the astronauts, is wearing a uniform with a shoulder patch that has the Aboriginal flag in place of the Union Jack on the Australian national flag. Nice touch.

God save us from people who mean well. -storm

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Flag of the Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish Armed Forces. The flag of Turkey (Turkish: Türk bayrağı) is a red flag featuring a white star and crescent. The flag is often called al bayrak (the red flag), and is referred to as al sancak (the red banner) in the Turkish national anthem.



The Nation of Islam is a Islamist group. It was founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1930 by Wallace Fard Muhammad. The main goal of the Nation of Islam is to bring back the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of blacks in the United States. Since 1978, the group has been led by Louis Farrakhan.

Notice the star is facing in the opposite direction.

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The white banner at the top of the flag reads: “There is no god but Allah [God]. Mohammad is the messenger of Allah.” This phrase is a declaration of faith used across Islam, and is known as the shahada.

Underneath is a white circle emblazoned with black writing reading "Mohammed is the messenger of God", which is meant to resemble the Prophet’s seal, similar to that used to close an envelope.

Source: The Independent

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They have a name for this. It is called vexillology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexillology

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(07-17-2017 07:32 PM)numanist Wrote:  How does one resize an image?

like this: {img=600x400}url{/img} replacing {} with brackets.