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Third National, US, NC
The third national flag was adopted March 4, 1865, just before the fall of the Confederacy. The red vertical stripe was proposed by Major Arthur L. Rogers, who argued that the pure white field of the second national flag could be mistaken as a flag of truce. When hanging limp in no wind, the flag's Southern Cross canton could accidentally stay hidden, so the flag could mistakenly appear all white.
Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), along with service members from the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Coast Guard, place U.S. flags at every gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery as part of Flags-In, Arlington, Va., May 26, 2022.
On this day, over 1,000 service members placed flags at more than 250,000 headstones and at the bottom of about 7,000 niche rows at Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery.
(U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery/released)
119 flags to represent all the nations who have a diplomatic presence in the Qatari Capital.
Flag Plaza - Doha, Qatar.
The green flag drops and Carl Edwards pushes ahead of the pack! I loved where our seats were located. They were right by the "restart box" and you could truly feel it when they got on it. What a feeling!
2013 AdvoCare 500
Atlanta Motor Speedway
September 1st 2013
i thought this an interesting combination of textures and colours:
a little snow on the hills, autumn yellows on the trees and green grass on a rather windy day unfurling the flags near the yukon river waterfront (out front of the visitor's centre) in whitehorse, yukon.
Location: Tiananmen Square (Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng, 天安门广场), Beijing (Běijīng Shì (北京市), People’s Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó, 中华人民共和国)
Flag Day, or Dia de la Bandera, in Mexico symbolizes the pride that Mexicans have in their flag. Although they were colonized by Spain in the 1500s, the deep running pride for their country remains the same. The origin of the flag comes from the Aztecs, who believed that when they found the eagle perched on a nopal (prickly pear cactus) with a serpent in his talons that is where they were supposed to settle. That’s exactly what they did! The flags colors are green, white, and red. The green stands for hope and victory, and white stands for purity, and the red band represents the blood that was shed by their ancestors. The eagle on the cactus with the snake sits in the middle of the white band. Flag day is a day that Mexicans take to remember their country and how it came into being. In the schools, they teach the children about the origins of the flag and the nation anthem, and they often focus on the subject via TV shows and special programs.
Artist: Penny Robson
as a child, the artist loved the bright colours of the paper flags she used to decorate sand castles. This gorilla features the flags of the ten nations of Africa where gorillas can be found.
Hag says: I can only discover nine of those nations (and I don't know which are their flags!): Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda and Zaire.
Victoria Road, Paignton, Torbay
