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Flags
The histories, meanings, and descriptions of the flags of the Countries of the World and the etiquette of using them.
6,955 Questions
What is the prettiest flag in the world?
Mexican flag
Answer The "prettiest" flag is entirely a matter of personal opinion, and would be influenced personal feelings and prejucidices, and elements of nationalism.
What is allowed to be on top of a flag pole that displays the American flag?
An American Eagle in flight is placed on the flag post top.
What all the symbols on the cajun flag represents?
the fleur-de-lis represent French heritage...the gold castle represents Spain (which gave Acadians permission to live in LA)...and the star is for the Virgin Mary
What sorority colors are red and white?
Chi O often uses red and white. I think they sometimes use gold trim as well, so their 'official' colors may be red and gold (yellow), technically.
Can there be the same number of flags at 8 location with 196 flags?
No. 196 divided by 8 is 24.5. You would have to have 198 or 194 flags.
What does the red stripe in the flag MEAN?
IT stands for courage and the white stands for purity and the 50 stars stands for 50 states
In what war did Betsy rose nit the American flag?
First of all Betsy Ross sewed the American flag not knitted.
Anyways she sewed the flag in the American Revolution.
What do the 5 olimpic rings stand for?
Black means excellence
Blue means perticaption
Yellow means competition
Red means hope
and Green means unity.
Yes And Its Olympic Not Olimpic...
Why does England's rugby team use a white flag with a red cross in it and not the Union Jack?
Because they are representing England, not the United Kingdom. The Union Flag combines the three flags of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The red cross is St George's Cross, which is the English flag) as opposed to the British flag which combined (hence the word UNION) England, Wales and Scotland. However, it is incorrect to refer to it as a "Union Jack" It should be refered to as a "Union Flag" - it is only called a "Union Jack" when the flag is hung from a JACK pole (on naval ships). == == Actually, the Union flag does include Northern Ireland's St. Patrick's cross, the red saltire, as well as St. Andrew's white saltire, and St. George's red cross. Only Wales is not represented. The political union of Scotland and England happened in 1707. This is why Scotland plays under the flag of St. Andrew and the Welsh under the Dragon. Whereas when playing for Great Britain (as with the Olympics) they play under the Union Flag.
What does a upside down jolly rogers flag mean?
upside down pirate flag was flown to mean No quarter," we're going to kill all aboard".
Why does the flag of New York City look like the French flag?
Its not actually meant to resemble the french flag. The colors are from the Netherlands. The design is popular and present in many other flags. Go here for more information http://www.nyc.gov/html/nyc100/html/classroom/hist_info/nycflag.html
In every flag in the world at least one of the five colors appear what are the five colors?
Red,White,Black,Blue and Yellow
What color represent for clockwise in potentiometer?
There is no color code for potentiometers as it is variable.
When was the french flag adopted?
The blue and red of the flag have been the colours of Paris since 1358 when they were used by the followers of Etienne Marcel, then leader of a Parisian revolt against the King of France and the Dauphin. In 1794, the Convention officially adopted the tricolour, the Commander of the Guard, Lafayette, having reputedly added the royal white between the blue and the red.[1]
What does the commonwealth star represent?
The Commonwealth star, or Federation star is a seven-pointed star unique to Australia. There is one point for each of the six states of Australia, and the seventh point represents all of Australia's mainland and offshore territories.
Where on US soil is the only place a flag may be hung above the Stars and Stripes?
According to the US Flag Code the only flag that may be flown above the US Flag is a religious flag an on US Navy Vessel while a Navy Chaplain is conducting services.
How do you dress a ship with flags and on what occasions would you do it?
Dress Ship, To. To array or rig out a vessel with flags and pennants in honor of a person or event. Formerly, such display was often carried to the extreme "rainbow fashion" of running a line of bunting from waters edge to jib-boom end, thence to fore, main, and mizzeen trucks down to spanker boom, and over the stern to water; also, on special gala occasions flags were displayed in vertical line between each yard-arm, in addition to the rainbow dress. Today, a single vertical line of International Code flags at each mast, with national colors aft, house flag at maintruck, and jack at the fore commonly constitutes dressing ship in the merchant service; rainbow dress, however, often is seen, especially in naval vessels, and now amounts to a display above deck on a line from stem to stern via the mastheads. Ref: Enclopidia of Nautical Knowledge, Cornell maritime Press, Copyright 1953, 1992 ed. page 141 I don't know if the customs have changed, but in the 1970s we "dressed ship" with the rainbow whenever we were anchored in a foreign port.
