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Each year for the Golowan Festival the town of Penzance is rigged with colourful flags and banners, produced in craft workshops by local people in the run up to the event. Some of the best ones are to be enjoyed on the seafront promenade. This is the view from the Wherrytown end of the prom, looking in the direction of Marazion and St Michael's Mount. You can see the famous Jubilee Pool lido in the background, and on Mazey Day and the following Quay Fair day there is a funfair set up along here too.
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.
Bandeiras do ponto de onibus de Blumenau, perto da Prefeitura.
Flags of the Blumenau bus stop, near the City Hall.
The national flag of Chile, consists of two unequal horizontal bands of white and red and a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center. It was adopted on 18 October 1817. The Chilean flag is also known in Spanish as La Estrella Solitaria (The Lone Star).
One of the participating nations at the International Mosaiculture, Montréal Botanical Garden.
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.
"Blue Flag" 2019
"Blue-Flag” 2019 is a biannual international aerial training exercise hosted by the IAF. Air forces from the United States, Italy, Greece and Germany simulated extreme combat scenarios in realistic settings with the IAF.
The current exercise was the first exercise in which the "Adir" (F-35I) aircraft participated.
Photography: Amit Agronov
״בלו-פלאג״ 2019 הוא תרגיל אווירי בין-לאומי שנערך על ידי חיל האוויר הישראלי. לאורך התרגיל, חילות האוויר של ארה״ב, איטליה, יוון, וגרמניה דימו תרחישי לחימה קיצוניים וטיסה בקואליציה באופן המציאותי ביותר עם חיל-האוויר הישראלי.
התרגיל הנוכחי היה הראשון שבו השתתפו מטוסי ה"אדיר" (F-35I).
צילום: עמית אגרונוב
Coombe Hill in the Chiltern Hills provides the backdrop to Ellesborough Church's tower. Open a number of Sundays the tower provides wide ranging views of the Chilterns and the Vale of Aylesbury. The Coombe Hill Monument to the Second Boer War Memorial is just visible on the skyline.
Project 52, week 9, 4/5. Triangle.
St. Andrew's cross provides convenient blue triangles!
And my sweetie provides convenient UK heraldry!
Montréal, QC.
Serfs Up ! (Flag photo courtesy of From Sovereign to Serf "Serfs Up" Author Roger Sayles and the Serfs Up Blog.) Roger Sayles' book, "From Sovereign to Serf" is available at www.serfs-up.net.
From Sovereign to Serf - Serfs Up ! - Roger Sayles - (serfs-up.net)