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| GlennSprigg:
Under the guise of 'general-chat'... (sorry!)... I recently saw a video about the U.S. flag, having 50 stars for the 50 States, and the 13 Stripes, (7 red, 6 white), as representing the 13 original Colonies! Cool!!! Here in Australia, we actually have 3 flags! Most of Aust. consists of 'States', but we also have a couple of 'Territories', which is depicted in the main star under the Union Jack. We also have a relatively recent and acknowledged Aboriginal flag, and a Northern Territory flag. This goes against some peoples feelings of 'Unity' in our representation, but I won't go into the Politics as such... :phew: Here's a partial screen capture from a small area my brothers Northern Territory website, that I made for him many years ago, where I explained the meaning & details of those flags. (I want to 'modernize' his site, but he won't let me!!)... As this Forum is so diverse across the Globe, I thought it might be interesting if people knew what their flags actually symbolize!! :-+ |
| Just_another_Dave:
The Spanish flag (🇪🇸) is quite curious from an engineering perspective as it was designed to by easily identified from long distances (initially it was just used by boats) and, therefore, it doesn’t have any meaning. For that purpose a contest was organized in 1785, being shown in the photo bellow the rest of the designs that were proposed here: https://images.app.goo.gl/qsQbyhDAaZbcberp8 . Nowadays, it is sometimes a controversial symbol, but that’s way less interesting than the reason why it was chosen. Additionally, each of the autonomous communities (which are something similar to states in other countries) and cities have their own flags (3 flags don’t seem a lot compared to the huge amount of them that we have 😂). In the case of the one of the autonomous community were I’m from, the stars represent the Ursa Major (the symbol of Madrid is a bear and a strawberry tree): And finally, as we belong to the EU, we have yet another flag (🇪🇺) which represents the unity of Europe (https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/symbols/flag_en). I wouldn’t expect to find this topic in an electronics engineering forum (flags can sometimes lead to arguments about politics), but, as in the case of my country it is slightly related to marine engineering, I think it might be interesting to know if that also happens with the ones of other countries too |
| Lord of nothing:
;D well we have here the Austrian Flag but every District, City have there own. Can seen here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterreich#Verwaltungsgliederung |
| tooki:
This is as good a time as any to link to this delightful lampooning of the US state flags. (FYI, most Americans are not familiar with the state flags. You know your own state’s and that’s it, other than perhaps California’s.) Washington Post: Every State Flag is Wrong and Here’s Why |
| jpanhalt:
Most Ohioans consider our "flag" a pennant. It is the only state "flag" that is not rectangular. |
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