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The rainbow flag flying above the Castro district. You can't really tell from the photo, but it's an enormous flag, almost but not quite as big as the American flag that flies on Ithaca's south hill near Rogan's Corner.
The flag of Brittany is the unofficial flag of Brittany, a region in the northwest of France. It is called the Gwenn-ha-du, which means white and black in Breton. It is also unofficially used in the department of Loire-Atlantique although this now belongs to the Pays de la Loire and not to the region of Brittany, as the territory of Loire-Atlantique is historically part of the province of Brittany. Nantes (Naoned), its prefecture, was once one of the two capital cities of Brittany.
The flag was created in 1923 by Morvan Marchal.
At Creperie bretonne Ty-Breiz inc. Montréal (Plateau Mont Royal), Québec.
Tarmac across from 441 Tactical Fighter Squadron. Technicians are carrying out before flight checks on CF-18 aircraft participating in the morning's Maple Flag 39 mission. Exercise Maple Flag, which emphasizes air operations involving large package coalition air forces, provides aircrews with realistic training in a modern simulated air combat environment.
Prayer flags such as these are a common sight in the northern state of Sikkim in India. The styles of flags change as you go northwards and eastwards to more dominant Buddhist states and countries. The prayers are written for souls and for the well being of others.
The Picture This! assignment for this week was Clouds. All week, we had either all gray skies or clear skies with no clouds. So finally today the clouds showed up and I had to scramble to grab the photos. I had pretty much resigned myself to taking a photo of the blue skies to show the very rare Cumulus Invisabus clouds that we only see in the NE Ohio area an average of 30 days per year. LOL! Anyway, when I was looking for an interesting way to shoot the clouds, I noticed these flags and thought they would make a dramatic point of interest.
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This is a pic of some BECC cotton model ship flags that I got from modelflags.com for use on LEGO ships... Pictured are their size "B" and size "C" flags (confederate "Stars and Bars and Confederate Battle Flag), along with the standard LEGO flag sizes for comparrison
Scouts and veterans served as flag bearers at the 10th Anniversary tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
9.11.2011 Iowa State Capitol - Des Moines, Iowa.
More images from the tribute to the 9/11 victims at the Iowa Capitol.
Prayer flags lined the entire road from Paro, where the airport is, to Thimphu, the capital. They were installed to welcome dignitaries, included Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for the 70th birthday celebration of the former king. Modi was due to arrive the day after us.
Flags of Simon Fraser University, Canada and British Columbia, at the Transportation Centre at Simon Fraser University. (Burnaby, BC, Canada)
Flag Day is already a well-known and beloved competition among students from five high schools in Bucharest, organized by the Public Diplomacy Section. Participating for the first time, this year’s high schools (Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga, C.A. Rosetti, Mihail Sadoveanu and Dimitrie Paciurea) developed depictions of all 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia.
Held in the Embassy’s courtyard for the first time, the 150 students exhibited the displays they created to illustrate representative elements for each of the states, all related to the history, culture and language of the Native Americans. The winners received American books and stationary and had a fun pizza picnic on the lawn.
Bucharest, June 12, 2014.
Lucian Crusoveanu / Public Diplomacy Office
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As ubiquitous as I'd been given to expect. Actually these big flags do look really impressive against a dramatic sky, and I liked the gold eagle at the top of the flagpole here.
Miscellaneous snapshot from our Colorado holiday.
Royal National Lifeboat Institution flag
The first RNLI flag was designed in 1884 by Leonora Preston, after the rescue of her brother. The flag was formally adopted by the RNLI in 1908.
"In 1953, after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the RNLI changed the crown in the centre of the flag from the Tudor style, as worn by King George VI, to the St Edward’s crown worn by the newly appointed monarch." [the crown is not visible in this photo.]
Source: RNLI website
To celebrate Flag Day on June 13, for the 8th straight year the U.S. Embassy's Public Diplomacy Section organized a competition with high school students to develop depictions of all 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia. Nearly 300 enthusiastic high school students took part in the competition which took place at the Ambassador’s residence where they exhibited the displays they created to illustrate various representative elements of each of the states, in order to convey the message for this year’s theme: “America’s Strength: The Diversity of Its People”. First time participating, this year's high schools were: Gheorghe Lazar (Bucharest), Mihai Viteazul (Bucharest), Nicolae Balcescu (Oltenita), Decebal (Bucharest) and Ion Neculce (Bucharest). The winners received American books, music and movies (Lucian Crusoveanu / Public Diplomacy Office)