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@NeoDemocrat- Because the Swiss call their nation Confoederatio Helvetica.
The evolution of flags in your country.
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Mongoloid Cow
Great Khan
And IIRC during the Napoleonic period, it was known in English as the Helvetian Republic too (like the Netherlands were called the Batavian Republic).
The Swedish flag has a much lighter blue since about a hundred years. They just found a new fashionable colour they liked more...
Lord_Sidious
No Fun At All
This colour change happen in all the Portuguese flags that I saw in the Internet
mrmitchell
Chieftain
...Switzerland?
mrmitchell
Chieftain
The State Flag of Arkansas.
The large diamond represents the state being the only in North America where diamonds have been mined.
The stars in the blue outline of the diamond represent that Arkansas was the 25th state to join the Union.
The star above "ARKANSAS" represents our being in the Confederate States of America. The three stars under mean France, Spain, and the United States--three over nations that have ruled here.
Lord_Sidious
No Fun At All
And the flag has ARKANSAS writen?
Sims2789
Fool me once...
NeoDemocrat said:
Bismark fought over Schleswig and Holstein after the year this map is representing.
Adso de Fimnu
Prince
Tada. The Iowa State flag. The French tricolor, because of the Louisiana purchase. The eagle, 'cause that's American. Motto: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain. And it has "IOWA" written on it so we can remember the name of the state.
Sims2789
Fool me once...
Info about the US Naval Jack:
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/United_States_Navy#Naval_jack
Personally, I don't know why we ever changed our naval jack the first time. The snake one looks better than the blue field with stars.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/United_States_Navy#Naval_jack
Personally, I don't know why we ever changed our naval jack the first time. The snake one looks better than the blue field with stars.
Vasileius
Warlord
The Byzantine Empire ( sssssh ! there is another thread for that !)
Palaeologus Dynasty ( the last Emperor ... he was a Greek 100% from Mystras )
Revolutionary flag of the Society of Friends
Sacred Band ( First revolutionary division )
Indepedence war flag (1)
Indepedence war flag (2)
Indepedence war flag (3)
First flag of the free Greek state
Greek Flag ( 1918?-today )
Palaeologus Dynasty ( the last Emperor ... he was a Greek 100% from Mystras )
Revolutionary flag of the Society of Friends
Sacred Band ( First revolutionary division )
Indepedence war flag (1)
Indepedence war flag (2)
Indepedence war flag (3)
First flag of the free Greek state
Greek Flag ( 1918?-today )
Marla_Singer
United in diversity
It's rather funny to use the tricolor flag, the French revolutionary flag, to represent Louisianna, a land named after a French King.Adso de Fimnu said:
Not really, as it was sold by Napoleon, at a time when the tricolor was already in used.
Lord_Sidious
No Fun At All
How much did Louisiana cost?
15 000 000 $ of the time (1803)
The Louisiana Purchase was a great thing for the United States because this DOUBLED the size of the country. This is also about 1/3 of United States today. The present day states that were part of the Louisiana Purchase are: Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming
That is 15 states. If they didn't have this area, probably wouldn't have gotten California and the states on the west.
The Louisiana Purchase was a great thing for the United States because this DOUBLED the size of the country. This is also about 1/3 of United States today. The present day states that were part of the Louisiana Purchase are: Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming
That is 15 states. If they didn't have this area, probably wouldn't have gotten California and the states on the west.
Sims2789
Fool me once...
That map is incorrect. There was no part of nodern-day Texas in the Lousiana Purchase, and it does not show the Gadsen Purchase or the anexation of the Republic of Texas. But it does give one a general idea of how we expanded.
Kyborgi
Warlord
http://www.presidentti.fi/eng/institution/ensign.html
http://www.uta.fi/suomi80/art4.htm
the first one has the official ones and is in english, the second is in finnish but has pics of all the suggestions and unofficial national flags.
http://www.uta.fi/suomi80/art4.htm
the first one has the official ones and is in english, the second is in finnish but has pics of all the suggestions and unofficial national flags.
Cuivienen
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Since we already have the whole American flag saga up here:
New Jersey isn't quite so dumb as to need its name on its flag to remember which state it is
The two women are named (you guessed it!) Liberty and Prosperity and the plow represents the fact that New Jersey was the most important farming state in 1776.
The horsehead was the symbol of the Dutch portion of New Jersey and became the symbol of East Jersey Colony once the English annexed New Netherlands and New Sweden. West Jersey Colony, which had been Swedish before the annexation, was Quaker and had no flag, so when the two were united the horsehead became the colonial symbol. (The "New" was not added to the name of the colony until they two were united.)
New Jersey isn't quite so dumb as to need its name on its flag to remember which state it is
The two women are named (you guessed it!) Liberty and Prosperity and the plow represents the fact that New Jersey was the most important farming state in 1776.
The horsehead was the symbol of the Dutch portion of New Jersey and became the symbol of East Jersey Colony once the English annexed New Netherlands and New Sweden. West Jersey Colony, which had been Swedish before the annexation, was Quaker and had no flag, so when the two were united the horsehead became the colonial symbol. (The "New" was not added to the name of the colony until they two were united.)
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