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The Grand Union Flag (also the Continental Colors, the Congress Flag, the Cambridge Flag, and the First Navy Ensign) is considered to be the first national flag of the United States. This flag consisted of 13 red and white stripes with the British Union Flag of the time (prior to the inclusion of St. Patrick's cross of Ireland) in the canton.
In the first year of the American War for Independence, the Continental Congress authorized the creation of a navy. A new flag was required representing the Congress and fledgling nation, and distinguishing from the Red Ensign flying from British vessels.
Plaque dates flag to January 2, 1776
historic American flags, always flown at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza
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The Republic of Peru is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico civilization, one of the oldest in the world, and to the Inca Empire, the largest state in Pre-Columbian America. The Spanish Empire conquered the region in the 16th century and established a Viceroyalty, which included most of its South American colonies. After achieving independence in 1821, Peru has undergone periods of political unrest and fiscal crisis as well as periods of stability and economic upswing.
Peru is a representative democratic republic divided into 25 regions. Its geography varies from the arid plains of the Pacific coast to the peaks of the Andes mountains and the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. It is a developing country with a medium Human Development Index score and a poverty level around 40%. Its main economic activities include agriculture, fishing, mining, and manufacturing of products such as textiles.
The Peruvian population, estimated at 28 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Europeans, Africans and Asians. The main spoken language is Spanish, although a significant number of Peruvians speak Quechua or other native languages. This mixture of cultural traditions has resulted in a wide diversity of expressions in fields such as art, cuisine, literature, and music.
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Capital (and largest city): Lima
Official language: Spanish
Demonym: Peruvian
Government: Presidential republic
Independence from Spain
- Declared July 28, 1821
- Recognized December 9, 1824
Area
- Total 1,285,220 km² (20th), 496,222 sq mi
- Water (%) 8.80
Population
- 2007 census 28,220,764
- Density 22/km² (193rd), 57/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2007 estimate
- Total $207.985 billion (51st)
- Per capita $7,410 (79th)
GDP (nominal) 2007 estimate
- Total $101.504 billion (55th)
- Per capita $3,616 (87th)
HDI (2005): ▲0.773 (medium) (87th)
Currency: Nuevo Sol (PEN)
Time zone: PET (UTC-5)
Internet TLD: .pe
Calling code: +51
Indonesian flag hoisting at Jakarta's Art Gallery. I'm waiting for the winds to blow off, and this is what i can get.
The flag of Germany is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red and gold.
The Black tricolour first appeared in the early 19th century and achieved prominence during the 1848 revolution. The short-lived Frankfurt Parliament of 1848–50 proposed the tricolour as a flag for a united and democratic German state. With the formation of the Weimar Republic after World War I, the tricolour was adopted as the national flag of Germany. Following World War II, the tricolour was designated as the flag of both West and East Germany. The two flags were identical until 1959, when communist symbols were added to the East German flag. Since reunification on 3 October 1990, the black-red-gold tricolour has remained the flag of Germany.
The flag of Germany has not always used black, red and gold as its colours. After the Austro–Prussian War in 1866, the Prussian-dominated North German Confederation adopted a tricolour of black-white-red as its flag. This flag later became the flag of the German Empire, formed following the unification of Germany in 1871, and was used until 1918. Black, white and red were reintroduced as the German national colours with the establishment of Nazi Germany in 1933.
The colour schemes of black-red-gold and black-white-red have played an important role in the history of Germany and have had various meanings. The colours of the modern flag are associated with the republican democracy formed after World War II, and represent German unity and freedom: not only the freedom of Germany, but also the personal freedom of the German people.
In June 2017, the largest rainbow flag in North America was hoisted above the Avenue Building in downtown Saskatoon. It flew during Saskatoon's annual pride festival and for several weeks afterward.
In the presence of a huge crowd, independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898 between four and five in the afternoon in Cavite in this balcony of the ancestral home of General Emilio Aguinaldo some 30 kilometers South of Manila . The event saw the unfurling of the National Flag of the Philippines, made in Hong Kong by Marcela Agoncillo, Lorenza Agoncillo, and Delfina Herboza, and the performance of the Marcha Filipina Magdalo, as the Nation's National Anthem, now known as Lupang Hinirang, which was composed by Julián Felipe and played by the San Francisco de Malabon marching band.
Bandeiras do ponto de onibus de Blumenau, perto da Prefeitura.
Flags of the Blumenau bus stop, near the City Hall.
Left to right: Flag of Rio Grande do Sul - Flag of Brazil - Flag of Canela
da esquerda pra direita: Bandeira do estado RS - do Brasil - de Canela
左から右へ: リオグランデ・ド・スル州旗 - ブラジル国旗 - カネラ市旗
Canela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
ブラジル リオグランデ・ド・スル州 カネラ市
Project 52, week 9, 4/5. Triangle.
St. Andrew's cross provides convenient blue triangles!
And my sweetie provides convenient UK heraldry!
Montréal, QC.
Three historic (?) flags fly from homes on Pinckney Street in Annapolis.
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP
The phrase "Don't give up the ship," uttered by Captain James Lawrence after being mortally wounded by enemy fire aboard the gunboat Chesapeake on June 1, 1813, became the battle cry of naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry who later used a blue battle flag emblazoned with the words.
JOHN SHAW FLAG
To prepare for the period when the United States Congress would meet in the Maryland State House, from November 26, 1783 to June 3, 1784, the Governor of Maryland commissioned local cabinetmaker John Shaw to create a U.S. flag. The flag was slightly different from other designs of the time, with the blue field extending over the entire height of the hoist. Shaw created two versions of the flag: one which started with a red stripe and another that started with a white stripe. One of the flags flew on the Maryland State House for nine months from November 1783 to August 1784 while Annapolis was used as the National Capital, and the United States Congress met there. The other flew over the governor's house.
CALVERT ARMS / KING'S COLORS
Often mistakenly called the "Maryland Colonial" flag, there is no historic or documentary proof that this blend of the black and gold diamonds from the Calvert family colors (The Calverts were the Lords Baltimore, lords proprietors of the Royal Colony of Maryland), with the the King's Colors of 1606 as the canton, was ever used during the colonial period. Rather it was first ordered by the governor of Maryland in 1976 for the bi-centennial as the design he liked with no historical proof that it was ever flown in Maryland. The only documentation or mention of a Maryland flag during the revolutionary period and earlier almost always refers solely to the Black and Gold Calvert arms.
The American flag is sometimes called the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, or The Red White and Blue. Whatever the nickname, it is one of the most recognized symbols in the world.
The original flag, adapted by the Continental Congress in 1777, had thirteen stripes, 7 red and 6 white, and a "New Constellation" of 13 stars in a field of blue. Both the stars and the stripes represented the 13 original colonies which declared their independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, and established themselves as the United States of America. Over the years the 13 red and white stripes have remained constant, but as new states have been added to the Union another star was placed on the flag for each of them, until today there are 50 stars.
I am old enough to remember when the 48th and 49th states, Alaska and Hawaii, were added to the Union. I was in elementary school then, and the teachers made a big production out of introducing the new flags, first going from 48 to 49 stars, and then again from 49 to 50.