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What does the symbol in the center of Kenya's flag mean?
The shield on Kenya's flag (the symbol in the middle) is to represent defense of the 3 colors: The colours symbolize black majority, red for the blood shed during the struggle for freedom, and green for the land of Kenya.
Can any country be self sufficient?
I think the only country in the world that can be self-sufficient is Russia, just because its so massive. Russia doesn't need to import anything; not raw materials, not people, not even knowledge. Of course, little good do the country's advantages do it, given the bad mediterranean cultural legacy. Believe it or not, despite how its brutal winters are associated with the country, Russia is, very much, a mediterranean country. Why is this? The slavic population did not always number in the high millions, way back when during the early middle ages before the fall of the Byzantine empire, the Slavs were a barbarian people, some peaceful, some warlike. The peaceful ones were the victims of the warlike ones, as is always the case in human history across all cultures, so they sought refuge in the Byzantine empire where they were indeed protected by Byzantine cataphracts, the most formidable soldiers in the world, and possibly in human history. The origin of the European Knight, lies with the Cataphracts; they were the first universally trained soldiers, soldiers who could do archery, sword and spear play, on foot or horseback, and at a moment's notice dismount and engage in Phalanx like shield formations, or, drop their shields and spears and go into an archery formation, also at a moment's notice. Because of that adaptability, they were incredibly dangerous to their enemies.To put this into a modern perspective; imagine a soldier told by his commander "I need you to engage in urban warfare, you and your unit, go!" And they do it. But then they get called back and the commander says "we are under attack by sea; I need you and your unit to board that vessel and go sink them!" And they do it. "We are being attacked by air; get in your jets!" and they do it. Imagine soldiers who could, basically, do it all; be a pilot, urban warriors, sailors, anything at all. Consider the fear a modern military would have if they were faced with an enemy like that.Again just putting into perspective, the manner of soldier Byzantine Cataphracts were given the weapons of their day. "But they were using primitive weapons" you're saying "how can you compare swordplay with flying a jet!?" Oh, so hand to hand combat is easy is it? Alright then, if you think hand to hand fighting is easy, I need you to go beat up Chuck Liddell. What's that? You don't want to do it? But I thought you were thinking that hand to hand combat could not be complicated! The point I am trying to make is, that if even a simple martial art can be complex, imagine how much more when you are dealing with sharpened steel. Not just sharpened steel, but formations specific to each weapon in ADDITION to knowing how to ride a horse; more primitive yes, less complex, hardly, men of the middle ages were simply smarter that's all. They did not posses raw knowledge and education smarts like we moderns, BUT, problem solving smarts, learning and mastering stuff quickly smarts, ancient and early midieval man, had that in abundance.As effective as they were though, one nasty cultural legacy of Greco-Roman culture, is political corruption. There is no Greco-Roman daughter culture in the world today, be it Latin America, be it the mediterranean and the middle east, that is not corrupt. Any given country in latin america, is as corrupt as any given country in the Arab world, or, southern Europe. The only exceptions to the rule are France and Spain, but even they only recently have escaped that pattern, and they are still not completely free of it just two years ago there was fear that Spain would collapse into civil war again.Because the ancestors of the Russians lived in Byzantium, they absorbed its culture, and when they moved northward into what would become Russia, they took that culture with them, thus, basically, Russia is a mediterranean country, but far to the north, its a mediterranean country but without the sunshine. Russian machismo, like latin american, is rooted in its Greco-Roman roots. Machismo, the culture of exagerated manliness, sexism and womanizing, had its origins in ancient Greece, from there it spread to Italy, then to Spain, then to Latin America and its practiced in Russia too.Now, don't get me wrong there are things unique to the Russians; the Slavs had their own culture which they BLENDED with mediterranean elements. For example, one thing unique to the Russians, is to never complain. Man or woman, a Russian never complains; ever. No matter how hard things are, if you complain even a little, in the old days in Russia your parents would beat you severely, no matter how small the complaint was. They literally used to beat the tendency to complain out of their kids. That, is a very Slavic cultural characteristic; not just the Russians, but Slavs throughout eastern Europe, and the ones in the Balkans, tell their kids to NEVER, EVER, complain. That attitude has indeed earned them the respect of many people, even their enemies. If you wan to know Fedo Emanialenko's secret to his success in MMA, adopt that Russian mentality.Moving on; yes, its possible, but a country has to be massive, outside of Russia, even the other huge countries, namely Canada, China, the United States and India, are not fully self-sufficient. The medium sized and small countries, exist on the whim of the big ones. The one exception to the rule, regarding medium sized countries is Saudi Arabia, actually size wise its medium large, but anyway; Saudi Arabia has self sufficiency because if they need something, they can just buy it. The stereotypes are largely true; oil wealthy Arabs are a pretty spoiled people. I think in Qatar, you get $30,000 per year, just for being a citizen. If you were born in Qatar, or Kuwait, if you are an Arab from the region, you automatically get a 30k stipend, U.S., every year in ADDITION to your salary doing whatever it is you do for a living. Basically, if you live in an oil rich Arab country you don't have to work; EVER. They hire other people to do stuff for them.In Saudi Arabia, professional office work is done by Koreans, hospital work, is done by Indians working as doctors in hospitals were the head doctor is of course a Saudi, its mandatory that a Saudi male always has to be in charge, hard labor, is done by Malaysians, and, yet more Indians. House work is done by Malaysian women.So..... if they basically don't work, what do the Saudis do all day?I think they watch the news, visit Russian hookers and complain about Israel.Saudi Farmers are hard workers, so are Hebrew Muslims but, regarding Hebrew Muslims, the descendants of Jews who chose to convert to Islam rather than be beheaded by Mohamed (well, beheaded or exhiled), those people do a lot of menial labor. In Saudi Arabia, if you see a maid that happens to be semitic, chances are she's either Hebrew, or possibly Palestinian, OR, from somewhere in North Africa, it could be anywhere from the poorer areas of the Arab world.Yes self-sufficiency is possible, but it requires ridiculous amounts of geographic wealth like Russia has, or, ridiculous resource wealth period like Saudi Arabia. Even possessing those things though you need a group of people who can make the best of it; although Russia is easily the richest country in the world as far as untaped wealth, it is the poorest country, because the politics are so corrupt, the powerful people are so corrupt they can't use it. By contrast, Japan has next to nothing; no oil, no massive land mass and yet they are the second richest country in the world. Hell if the Japanese took over Russia, they'd conquer the world. Not that it would be a good thing; in some ways be thankful Japan and Britain weren't any bigger.
What are some of the messages that MTV has conveyed over the past 25 years?
MTV famously claimed its first casualty with its premiere video, aired August 1, 1981. But since video killed the radio star, what has the network accomplished? You know, besides forever changing youth culture and foisting Carson Daly on the world. Here, on the occasion of MTV's 25th anniversary, we look at some of the more notable accomplishments for which the network can be thanked-or blamed.Gave everyone A.D.D."The MTV style" of quick cuts and whipsaw cameras-known among veteran film editors as "frame-fucking"-is now the de facto visual language of American culture, from Michael Bay summer blockbusters to commercials for Sunny Delight.Made Madonna possibleWithout a medium in which to enact her famous image reinventions, Madonna would have remained just another vocally challenged sexpot leaking from the radio. Instead, she's the quintessential pop star of the age.Made Jessica Simpson possibleBefore MTV's Newlyweds rescued her, Simpson was just another floundering ersatz Britney Spears. MTV allowed her to reinvent herself as a dizzy Gen-Y Charo-and thus become the poster girl for a fizzy culture in which talent and celebrity are permanently cleavaged, er, cleaved.Invented reality TVIn 1992, eight years before Survivor, a do-gooder documentarian (Jonathan Murray) and a soap-opera veteran (Mary-Ellis Bunim) launched a docu-soap called The Real World. By the time the rest of the planet caught up, MTV had already forged ahead, creating hypercompelling pseudo-reality hybrids like Laguna Beach.Showed it was okay to be gayLong before Brokeback, there was the aforementioned Real World, which has featured gay cast members in twelve of its seventeen seasons-from the wacky, alcoholic bisexual Ruthie to the sympathetic AIDS activist Pedro, who married his boyfriend on the show.Enabled StarbucksFrom the September 1991 debut of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," it was a short slide to the national hegemony of flannel shirts, ennui, and a Seattle-born coffee franchise. The flannel's disappeared, the ennui's come and gone (and come again), but the macchiato addiction is holding steady.Put a gag on horny midgetsThe MTV-produced halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII-a fumbled effort to lure "the kids"-led to Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," which led to a national hysteria, which led to the FCC crackdown on Howard Stern, which led him to defect to Sirius. So, in a sense, MTV made the satellite-radio star.Neutered hip-hopWith the Run-DMC-Aerosmith "Walk This Way" video in 1986, rap crossed the color barrier for good, colonizing the suburbs and transmuting the genre from a potent protest movement (Public Enemy, N.W.A) to a Diddy-fied venue for TV-friendly gangsta clichés.Corrupted your daughter and called it empowermentSure, MTV's Spring Break, pimping wasted, bikini-clad girls and their amateur stripper moves since 1985, is merely a ribald update of American Bandstand. Then again, by that logic, Girls Gone Wild is merely a ribald update of MTV's Spring Break.Legitimized talking headsNo, not the Talking Heads-rather, the network's parade of nattering, disposable veejays. MTV almost single-handedly debased the idea that people on TV should have some idea of what they're talking about. Fast-forward to our current cable-news punditocracy, where half the commentators make Regis Philbin sound like Walter Cronkite.Nurtured an art formThe past decade's most visually inventive film directors, from Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) to Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast), all cut their teeth on these strange, rule-busting, three-minute waking dreams-with MTV serving as their 24-hour televised gallery.Defeated communismSatellites started beaming MTV Europe into East Berlin on November 7, 1989; two days later, the Eastern Bloc was history. Coincidence? Okay, maybe. But two decades ago, MTV was as compelling a symbol of Western society as Levi's or Coca-Cola.Killed the music videoTry to find videos on MTV now, and you'll run into a wall of shows like Yo Momma or Date My Mom. But don't bother pining wistfully for bygone days when MTV played Aerosmith's "Love in an Elevator" every hour on the hour. It only makes you seem old. About as old as MTV, actually.
How many Britney Spears impersonators are there?
Thousands probably
What year were spears invented in Medieval Times?
Spears were not invented in medieval times - they had already been around for for tens of thousands of years before that. Neolithic hunters used spears, Bronze Age people used spears, the ancient Egyptians used spears, the ancient Greeks used spears, Iron Age people used spears, the Romans and their enemies used spears and the Byzantines and Carolingians used spears long before the Middle ages.
Is Britney Spears face leagal in any country?
no.
What country did Britney Spears' family come from?
she is English and Maltese.
What female country singer sang soon?
Brittany Spears
Is the movie country strong based on a book?
Britney Spears
What do the spears and shield mean on Kenya's flag?
The spears on Kenya's flag represent defense and protection of the country, while the shield signifies unity and strength as a nation. The Maasai shield and spears are traditional symbols of the country's cultural heritage and history.
What country's two dollar bill features six Eskimos four kayaks and two spears?
What country’s two-dollar bill features six Eskimos, four kayaks, and two spears?
What country and state does Jamie Lynn Spears live in?
U.s and Tennessee
Is jamie Lynn spears a country singer?
Yes, she sings country songs, and she also published a song.
From which country does the surname Spears originate?
The family name Spears dates back to the middle ages in England. It is believed that it was given to manufacturers of the weapons with that name.
When did the inuit use spears?
The Inuit historically used spears primarily for hunting marine mammals, such as seals and whales, as well as for fishing. These spears were often used in conjunction with harpoon heads and were essential for their survival in the Arctic environment. The use of spears dates back thousands of years, reflecting their adaptation to the harsh conditions and reliance on fishing and hunting for sustenance.
