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This flag shows the Tokugawa Mon (Clan Symbol). The Tokugawa shogunate ruled japan for almost 300 years. In this city (Okazaki) Ieyasu Tokugawa was born, the first Shogun who ruled over whole japan
Inspired by Stephen Shore's gorgeous photo; U.S.10 Post Falls, Idaho and it's lyrical beauty and acceptance of the world around us I went this morning searching for just such a scene.
I looked for a location with minimal expression and inherent beauty, yet without drama. Found it 16 miles away.
Some photos are created in a snap or two. this one took me 10 minutes to compose and click.
Full of elements, yet those puddles are the most important ones.
They give your eyes a runway to take off and escape this place.
Green, white and red - perfect colours for the Italian Flag - perfect colours for a great pasta sauce!
First responders showed off their equipment at Saturday's Huckleberry Harvest Festival in Montpelier, Idaho. My favorite display was this big flag flown by the Bear Lake Fire Department.
Made the explore page, March 18, 2007!
New York Firefighters? Doug correct me if I'm wrong. The sun came out and these guys were the biggest group I've seen. The waving flags and their uniforms will really catch your attention.
Birth of the National Flag of Canada
At the time of Confederation, Canada's national flag remained the Royal Union Flag (Union Jack). However, Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister, flew the Canadian Red Ensign as a distinctive flag of Canada. Following the Second World War, in 1945, an Order in Council authorized the flying of the Canadian Red Ensign from federal government buildings, in Canada and abroad.
In 1964, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson made the creation of a new Canadian flag a priority. John Matheson, Member of Parliament, was Prime Minister Pearson's key advisor and supporter in this objective. On June 15, 1964, the Prime Minister presented his proposed flag to the House of Commons, launching a divisive Canadian flag debate. After three months without resolution, the question of a national flag was referred to an all-party committee.
In October 1964, after eliminating thousands of proposals, the Special Committee on a Canadian Flag was left with three possible designs: one incorporating three red maple leaves with blue bars (nicknamed the "Pearson Pennant"), a flag with a single stylized red maple leaf on a white square with red bars, and another version that contained both the Union Jack and three fleurs-de-lis.
On October 29, 1964, the committee recommended to the House of Commons that the single-leaf, red and white design be adopted. Debate in Parliament continued, however, and it was only at the early hour of 2:15 a.m. on December 15, 1964, that the motion to adopt the National Flag of Canada was carried by a vote of 163 to 78. Approval by the Senate came on December 17, 1964, and on January 28, 1965, the National Flag of Canada was proclaimed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to take effect on February 15, 1965.
The inspiration for a red and white flag came from Dr. George Stanley, Dean of Arts at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. Impressed by the Commandant's flag at the College (a mailed fist holding three maple leaves on a red and white ground), Dr. Stanley suggested to Mr. John Matheson a similar design with a single red maple leaf at the centre. This red - white - red pattern bore a strong sense of Canadian history: the combination had been used as early as 1899 on the General Service Medal issued by Queen Victoria.
Prayer Flags by Irene Becker © All rights reserved
Bridge covered in prayer flags with Stakna Monastery in the background. Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Ladakh : Day 11
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Over 37,000 flags are placed on Boston Common every year to represent every fallen soldier in Massachusetts.
LEGO Flags of the World. How many do you recognize?
At some point in 2006 I built the Canadian flag. A little while later I built the Swiss flag. Then I suddenly found myself on a flag building bender.
I ended up with 28 in total. I was going to display them with my world map at Brickfest 2006, but since I forgot the map at home, I never bothered taking them out of the car.
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At Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom on Saturday 3rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
I was attending a speed hill climbing motorsport event, during a hot sunny day, at the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in the village of Shelsely Walsh in Worcestershire. I was there to take photos of the of the event.
They had four different nation flags of the British Isles on flagpoles alongside the track.
NOTE: British Isles is different from British Islands. British Islands refer to England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the small islands like Jersey, Guernsey, and Isle of Man, all together. Whereabouts British Isles is same as British Islands, but includes the Republic of Ireland.
Here, I took a series of photographs of the flag of Ireland, flying in the wind, along with the flags of England, Scotland, and Wales.
I’m not sure those flags are of official sizes and specifications, but still, it was a chance for me to take some shots of the flags.
By this time, I had already taken photos of the Union Flag, the Wales flag, and the American Stars and Strips from somewhere else. I thought to grab a chance to take photo of flags belonging to Scotland and Ireland that were flying at the grounds.
For details about the flag of Ireland, see About the overall subject.
About the overall subject.
About the flag.
This is the national flag for the Republic of Ireland. In the Irish language: bratach na hÉireann.
It is frequently referred in Ireland as the tricolour (an tridhathach).
The flag is a vertical tricolour of green, white, and orange bands of equal width, in the proportion of 1:2. That mean an aspect ratio where the width (2) is twice the size of the height (1).
Note: It is important to remember that the colour order from left to right, is green, white, and orange. Not to be confused with the flag of Ivory Coast which is very similar but theirs is in the order of orange, white, and green.
The two flags can often be confused, specially when using the reverse side of the flags.
The flag of Ireland had been adopted in 1922, however like with any other national flags all around the world, the history of the Irish tricolour can date back further from the date of adoption.
According to various history, it was presented as a gift by a small group of French women sympathetic to the Irish nationalism. The colours were intended to symbolise the hoped-for union between the Roman Catholics (green colour) and Protestants (white colour). The white in the middle signifies a lasting truce between the two. It was also based on the French tricolour.
The exact colours, like with any other flags in history, were never actually specified until modern times. Today, the Irish government, the Department of the Taoiseach is responsibility for the flag design and use, had set the actual colours which was in use since 2001.
About Shelsley Walsh.
Shelsley Walsh is a motorsports speed hill climb track in Worcestershire, and organised by the Midland Automobile Club (MAC).
It is one of the oldest motorsports event, having started in 1905, and held events every year, except for the two World Wars.
It is also a notably steep course by today’s hill climb standards, rising 328ft / 100m over its 1000 yards / 914 metres length.
The track and course do not belong to MAC, it is leased from the local landowner. The original lease ran for 99 years, and in 2005, a new lease was signed for the next 99 years.
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Every year for Memorial Day, a local bank and our mall display a field of flags. I admire their show of respect for the sacrifice each and every member of the United States military makes for our country each day. I was lucky enough to capture a great shot of Old Glory waving in the sunshine.
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The problem with flags is, well, as you'll appreciate, they have a nasty habit of moving which makes them decidedly less than an ideal subject for a HDR shot, let alone a held-held HDR or so I used to think.
Of destroyed tenement.DISCLAIMER: This creation does not endorse or beatify nor try to endorse or beatify Nazi ideology, it's leaders and it is not any kind of Nazi propaganda whatsoever!!
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Looking back 100 years.
Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel, France.
During the First World War, Newfoundland was a largely rural Dominion of the British Empire with a population of 240,000, and not yet part of Canada. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 led the Government of Newfoundland to recruit a force for service with the British Army. Even though the island had not possessed any formal military organization since 1870, enough men soon volunteered that an entire battalion was formed, and later maintained throughout the war. The regiment trained at various locations in the United Kingdom and increased from an initial contingent of 500 men to full battalion strength of 1,000 men, before being deployed.
01/07/1916 The Somme.
At 8:45 a.m. the Newfoundland Regiment and 1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment received orders to move forward. The Newfoundland Regiment was situated at St. John's Road, a support trench 250 yards (230 m) behind the British forward line and out of sight of the enemy. Movement forward through the communication trenches was not possible because they were congested with dead and wounded men and under shell fire.
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Lovell Hadow, the battalion commander, decided to move immediately into attack formation and advance across the surface, which involved first navigating through the British barbed wire defences. As they breasted the skyline behind the British first line, they were effectively the only troops moving on the battlefield and clearly visible to the German defenders.
Subjected to the full force of the 119th (Reserve) Infantry Regiment, most of the Newfoundland Regiment who had started forward were dead, dying or wounded within 15 to 20 minutes of leaving St. John's Road trench. Most reached no further than the Danger Tree, a skeleton of a tree that lay in No Man's Land that was being utilized as a landmark.
So far as can be ascertained, 22 officers and 758 other ranks were directly involved in the advance. Of these, all the officers and slightly under 658 other ranks became casualties. Of the 780 men who went forward only about 110 survived unscathed, of whom only 68 were available for roll call the following day. For all intents and purposes the Newfoundland Regiment had been wiped out, the unit as a whole having suffered a casualty rate of approximately 80%. The only unit to suffer greater casualties during the attack was the 10th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, attacking west of Fricourt village.
L'homme et les drapeaux rouge de la Place Tiananmen.
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The man and the red flags of Tiananmen Square.
I didn't know whether to post this. Tried several times and changed my mind. I went online and researched flag etiquette. This image is not intended to be disrespectful to the American Flag. I found this little flag washed up on my favourite beach after a recent storm. It is my most interesting beach find yet. We live 20 miles from Washington State, across the Juan de Fuca Strait. I gazed at this flag for awhile and wondered what story it could tell. Where did it originate? How far did it come? After this shot I rescued it and it now occupies a place in my photo room.
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I see more state flags flown in Texas than any other state that I've visited. That's pretty cool. This US Flag and Texas Flag are both very large. They're located in front of the Taste of Texas Restaurant next to the Katy Freeway (I-10) in Houston. To gain some perspective, those are the tops of trees at the bottom of the frame. (Excellent restaurant, by the way).
Edinburgh, 2009
Douglas Foulis 1926-2016
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1960 Pontiac Bonneville in Senoia, Georgia
Leica II (1933) camera with Elmar 50mm f/3.5 collapsible lens.
Cinestill 400D film.
Flag flying high over Amelia Island, Florida back on a sunny afternoon in October 2012.
I'm always hopeful that my country can get back on its feet again and stand united as we did back in those first horrible weeks in September 2001.
We've drifted away from democracy since that day - we need to embrace the things that make America strong, not the things that divide us.
Peace
Photo from last night, March 30.
(WARNING: Don’t scroll to the comments unless you want to see my other half)
First question is, can I call myself trans?
For “regular” people I’m weird and maybe gay. Why would I want to be a woman?
For some extreme trans women I am not “good enough” You know, you gotta do hormones….
from those trans women… really?
Didn’t we run away from stereotypes and w? Weren’t we looking for understanding for our own very unique situation regarding gender expression?
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So being primarily a crossdresser , can I use the flag or not️⚧️?
#transdayofvisibility
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.
Explored: March 25, 2009 thank you :)
Arc de Triumphe, Paris France
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