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This stylized O is meant to represent both a maple leaf (symbolizing Canada) and the Peace Tower and Centre Block of the parliament buildings (symbolizing Ottawa). It is meant to be simple, but look festive, and to create a feeling of vibrant motion when flying....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1591783...
Here’s the Wikipedia article on the flag, which is quite extensive: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Washington,_D.C....
On a field of blue, the flag displays a yellow emblem of a crown and crossed arrows. This is the emblem attributed to St Edmund, king of East Anglia, shot with arrows and decapitated Vikings in 869. A shrine and cult later developed in Bury St Edmunds, and the emblem gradually came to represent the county as a whole.
Wikipedia page about the Ikurriña
Before this flag, they used this ridiculously long flag with the proportions 1:3...
Proposals taken from Wikipedia article.
Article on the 100th anniversary of the flag of the city of Chicago: www.britannica.com/story/…/3ZAXcHF.jpg)
Originally, they had this flag from 1975-1992:...
Map of members: CARICOM members map...
This was an earlier proposal, but in my opinion the current flag looks better: Proposal PNG flag
When it first became independent, in 1962, it had a sorghum plant and a drum in the middle instead of the stars:...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_Korea
As of today, Angola still uses this flag, with a machete as a fairly unique feature:...
