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Ben Kenobi
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McGregornobi!
Oct 2002
time: 21:28
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http://fraser.cc/FlagsCan/Nation/CanFlag.html
"Le principal, la feuille d'Erable, a été, comme on sait, adopté comme l'emblême du Bas-Canada..."
(Why the Maple leaf is a Canadian symbol)
The stripes, and the design process.
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The first problem was the design. Already Matheson had abandoned any expectation of obtaining acceptance for either his original three-leaf flag or Pearson's favourite blue-bar modification. Each had sunk beneath an overburden of political criticism. Further, he was becoming persuaded of the elegant simplicity of a single leaf design. Extensive conversations with two friends, neither of whom made formal presentations to the committee, strongly influenced Matheson's ultimate choice.
The first was Lt.-Col. George F.G. Stanley, Ph.D., then Dean of Arts at the Royal Military College, at Kingston, and later to be lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick. John Matheson tells of one of their conversations which took place in Kingston earlier that year:
I particularly recall standing beside George Stanley and looking up at the Royal Military College flag.... This flag had three vertical pales, red-white-red, with the college crest (a mailed fist holding three maple leaves) on the white centre pale. Dr. Stanley remarked "There, John, is your flag." Interpreting him literally I remarked that Canadians would not accept a mailed fist symbol. He said, "No, I mean with a red maple leaf in the place of the College Crest."78
Not only was the RMC flag in the national colours, but its striking red-white-red pales were very probably modeled upon the ribbon on Canada's first military medal, the General Service Medal, issued for the defence of Canada between 1866 and 1870. However, the equal pales presented a flag too close to that of Peru, and the centre white pale was too narrow to effectively display a single large maple leaf. So, following the suggestion of Eugène Fiset to the arms committee in 1919, Matheson broadened the central pale to a form a square. The irony of thus presenting the angry Legionnaires with what was their own badge appealed to Matheson's sense of mischief."
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CyberGnu
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of the Virtual Serengeti
Apr 1999
time: 05:28
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Olaf, the colors doesn't really symbolize anything, as far as anyone knows. Before Magnus Eriksson each swedish king devised his own personal heraldic device and used that as the official "state weapon" (riksvapen). Erik Eriksson, for example, had three crowned cheetas.
The three crowns seems to start with Magnus Ladulaas, who had as his device a golden lion surrounded by three golden crowns on a blue background. A hundred or so years later Magnus Eriksson adopted a similar device, with just three golden crowns on a blue background.
When Albrekt of Mecklenburg took over from Eriksson, he elected to cast off his familys crest, and used the Eriksson device instead. Possibly as a political move to make his succession more legitimate, although some claims that he considered the three crowns symbolizing the three realms: sweden denmark and norway.
The use of the "three crowns" as a flag (as the device is known as in swedish) started in 1440, when Karl Knutsson Bonde used the three golden crowns on a blue background in his war against Denmark.
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Q Cubed
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t3h y3ll0w p3ril
Apr 1999
time: 23:28
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the red and blue form the yin-yang circle; more accurately, since it's in korea, the um-yang circle.
it refers to opposites, but not to n/s korea.
the bars are the elements, earth, sky, fire, water.
the white background represents the people.
the flag itself is known as the taegukki, where ki is flag. taeguk literally translates to "great nation", iirc, but is almost never used to refer to korea itself, which is hanguk, taehanminguk, or, in the north, choson.
nobody really uses that except those brainwashed people.
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