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Green, white and red - perfect colours for the Italian Flag - perfect colours for a great pasta sauce!
Le monument aux morts de Tréguier dans les Côtes d'Armor, est appelé "La Pleureuse". Il a été réalisé par Francis Renaud.
Le sculpteur a demandé à Marie-Louise Le Put, devenue veuve au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale, de lui servir de modèle. En effet, elle perdit ses trois fils très jeunes puis son mari...Elle est habillée de la mante de deuil, avec une grande capuche protégeant sa coiffe.
Le monument de Tréguier fut inauguré, le 2 juillet 1922.
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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.
At Mount Rushmore the entry has all the state flags on the pathway to the amphitheater. My state flag is at the top left of this photo and the people traveling with us is on the top right.
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At the Wartime in the Vale 2025 event. Ashdown Camp, at Ashdown Farm, off Badsey Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Sunday 22nd of June 2025.
About the photograph.
I dabble in vexillology, not really a serious interest, just a bit of passing interest in the study of flags.
I was attending a military vehicles re-enactment event when I saw this flag flying at one the camps, so I took a series of shots using high continuous frame rate mode.
This is the national flag of Sweden.
It is consisted of a yellow or gold cross in the shape of a Nordic cross, on a light blue field.
A Nordic cross is a horizontal and vertical cross on a rectangular field, but the vertical cross is slightly shifted to the left, closer to the flag pole or mast. It is commonly found on many different national flags of various Nordic countries.
The proportion of the flag is a ratio of 5:8 meaning 5 units of height by 8 units of width.
Folklore had it that the flag of Sweden dates back to the 12th century when King Eric IX used a golden cross on a blue background as a banner. Another story tells that the flag was created during the reign of King Charles VIII in 1442. There were a few other stories of how the flag was created.
The current form of the Swedish flag started around 1905, and was formally adopted on the 22nd June 1906.
About the event.
Wartime in the Vale is an annual re-enactment event, held at the former Second World War camp, next to the town of Evesham, during the summer. The event is organised by the Military Vehicle Trust – South Midlands Area.
The event is held during the weekend, and believed to have at least more than 500 military vehicles of various eras, but mostly of First and Second World Wars, on display as well as re-enactment events in the main arena, including blank firing of weapons. They even have a flypast over the area.
The Ashdown Camp is a 40 acres site, with some old WWII era buildings, mainly huts, located near the Ashdown Farm, just to the east of Evesham.
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Testing a manual Nikkor 50 mm Æ’1:1.2 on my Nikon Df, post processed in Lightroom using the new VSCO Film Pack 05.
L'homme et les drapeaux rouge de la Place Tiananmen.
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The man and the red flags of Tiananmen Square.
Edinburgh, 2009
Douglas Foulis 1926-2016
www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-douglas-foulis-...
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).
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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Northbank lighthouse-Dublin In 1800, a survey of Dublin Bay conducted by Captain William Bligh recommended the construction of the Bull Wall. After the completion of the wall in 1842, North Bull Island slowly formed as sand built up behind it.
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UK Union Flags fluttering in the wind during the London Olympics. Playing with the settings in my new D3200 to try to capture the transparency of these small printed plastic flags.
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-Mussoorie, India
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On the second day of my India adventure, I took a hike up to Flag Hill, where Tibetans have strung flags that have verses from their holy scripture. It was a breathtaking sight to see, the flags gently fluttering in close proximity. I took many great pictures of the flags.
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