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Photo: Reinier van Oorsouw
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To celebrate Flag Day, the U.S. Embassy’s Public Diplomacy Section brought nearly 300 high school students to the Ambassador’s residence to exhibit the displays they created to illustrate various representative elements for a particular U.S. state – and the District of Columbia. Although the high schools participating this year were at their first experience, the tradition of elaborate projects was very well kept.
At this 7th edition on June 14 (the actual Flag Day celebration!), Embassy judges awarded prizes in the following categories: Best Overall – Rhode Island (Colegiul National de Informatica “Tudor Vianu”); Runner Up Best Overall – Ohio (Liceul “George Calinescu”); Most Creative/Original – Maine (Grup Scolar Constructii Montaj “Elie Radu”); Represents the State Best – Florida (Grup Scolar Constructii Montaj “Elie Radu”); Most Informative/Educational – Virginia (Grup Scolar Constructii Montaj “Elie Radu”); Most Fun – West Virginia (Colegiul German Goethe); Most Detailed – Iowa (Scoala Superioara Comerciala “N. Kretzulescu”); Best Presentation – Kansas (Colegiul National de Informatica “Tudor Vianu”); Most Attractive – Arkansas (Colegiul National de Informatica “Tudor Vianu”) and People’s Choice, in which the participants voted Maine (Grup Scolar Constructii Montaj “Elie Radu”) as their favorite.
The winners received American books, music and movies. All students then enjoyed pizza and sodas on the residence lawn.
Lucian Crusoveanu / Public Diplomacy Office
from left to right: the US flag (what's it doing in Wales?), the Marriott Hotel flag, the Union Jack of Great Britain, and the Welsh flag
A line of prayer flags, near the entrance to Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Dumfries & Galloway.
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Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre is a Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Karma Kagyu school located at Eskdalemuir, near Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagyu_Samye_Ling_Monastery_and_Tibe...
Sculpture designed by Horace W. Peaslee, sculpted by Felix de Weldon, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning photo by Joseph Rosenthal. I loved the movie about the planting of the flag: (http://www.flagsofourfathers.com/) and so was keen to visit the Iwo Jima Marine Memorial in Arlington. The sun was against us, but I loved the movement of the flag, so took rather a lot of pictures.
The weird thing you notice about rural Iowa (or rural anywhere, really) is the way they aren't shy about waving around a confederate flag. In the city, people seem to shun it due to its racist connotations...
Anti-Flag
13 juillet 2015
Impérial Bell, présenté par Groupe Voyages Québec
Crédit photo: Sébastien Dion
Anti-Flag performing at Credit Union Center on January 27, 2007. Anti-Flag is opening for Billy Talent during their cross-Canada tour.
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This graphic is based on the american national flag design, it incorporates the internationally recognised CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) antiwar symbol. The CND symbol was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional artist and graduate of the Royal College of Arts in Britain.
The symbol is a mix of the military semaphore signals N - representing nuclear - and D - representing disarmament. Holtom, a conscientious objector during the Second World War, subverted this use of semaphores by placing the D over the N, the “upside down logo” signifying his anti-military principles.
The “peace symbol”, as it is usually dubbed outside Britain, was first brought over to the United States by Bayard Rustin, a key figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a protestor at the 1958 Aldermaston march. Consequently, the symbol was used in civil rights marches and later spread to anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. Since then it has appeared around the world not only as a sign for nuclear disarmament but also as the international hallmark of peace.
Quote by Paul P. Harris:
"The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness".