Flags

Yes. This happened on Montebello's High School to protest immigration reforms on April, 2006. The student was disciplined.

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The 7 point golden sun of the Antigua & Barbuda flag represents the dawn of a new era. The colour red, the life blood of slave forefathers and the dynamism of the people. Blue represents hope, black, the soil and African heritage and gold, blue & white Antigua's and Barbuda's tourist attractions sun, sea and sand. The "V" formed by the red borders represent: "Victory at last

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A rival suggestion for the origins of much of Santa's paraphernalia-his red and white color scheme, those flying reindeer, and so on-is much more fun, less commercial, more scientific, and somehow more appealing than Coca-Cola's version, because it is so politically incorrect. Patrick Harding of Sheffield University in England argues that the trappings of the traditional Christmas experience owe a great deal to what is probably the most important mushroom in history: fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), the recreational and ritualistic drug of choice in parts of northern Europe before vodka was imported from the East. Each December this mycologist dresses up as Santa and drags a sleigh behind him to deliver seasonal lectures on the toadstool. The garb helps Harding drive home his point, for Santa's robes without doubt honor the red-and-white-dot color scheme of this potent mind-altering mushroom. Commonly found in northern Europe, North America, and New Zealand, fly agaric is fairly poisonous, being a relative of the more lethal death cap (Amanita phalloides) and destroying angel (Amanita virosa). The hallucinogenic principles of fly agaric are due to the presence of the chemicals ibotenic acid and muscimol, according to the International Mycological Institute at Egham, Surrey, England. Ibotenic acid is present only in fresh mushrooms. On drying, it turns into muscimol, which is ten times more potent. In Lapp societies, the village holy man, or shaman, took his mushrooms dried-with good reason. The shaman knew how to prepare the mushroom, removing the more potent toxins so that it was safe enough to eat. During a mushroom-induced trance, he would start to twitch and sweat. His soul was thought to leave the body as an animal and fly to the otherworld to communicate with the spirits. The spirits would, the shaman hoped, help him to deal with pressing problems, such as an outbreak of sickness in the village. With luck, after his hallucinatory flight across the skies, he would return bearing the gifts of medical knowledge from the gods. Santa's jolly "Ho, ho, ho" is the euphoric laugh of someone who has indulged in the mushroom. Harding adds that the big man's fondness for popping down chimneys is an echo of how the shaman would drop into a yurt, an ancient tentlike dwelling made of birch and reindeer hide. "The 'door' and the chimney of the yurt were the same, and the most significant person coming down the chimney would have been a shaman coming to heal a sick person." Harding uses the shaman's urine to link reindeer to the myth. For one thing, reindeer were uncommonly fond of drinking human urine that contained muscimol. The hoi polloi from the village also were partial to mind-expanding yellow snow, because the potency of the muscimol was not greatly weakened-although it was probably safer-once it had passed through the shaman. "There is evidence of the drug passing through five or six people and still being effective," Harding says. "This is almost certainly the derivation of the phrase 'to get pissed,' which has nothing to do with alcohol. It predates inebriation by alcohol by several thousand years."

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The us flag should be folded in a triangle and stored in a glass box!

Stars on a flag help display that country's pride in themselves. This is called patriotism. Google the subject if you want to learn more.

It is a combination of St. George's, St. Andrew's, and St. Patrick's cross.

if you are wandering what the Iroquois flag means it means well the symbols they mean well again the first one means the smallest building is a little House for the Indians to go in so then the second symbol is the biggest house and that has more people inside it and so the middle symbol is a tree where the people hang there things on and the rest of them on the right are just other people who live in other houses.

there are 7 red stripes 6 white stripes and 50 stars on the American flag.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this question, but here are three possible answers: If you are basically asking "Why is the flag of England a red cross on a white field?", then the answer is because it is the St. George's cross, and St. George is the patron saint of England. If you are asking "Why do they use the flag of England for Britain?" then the answer is they don't. The flag of England is as described above, and the flag of Britain is the Union Flag, a composite of the flags of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland If you are asking "Why does the flag of Britain look the way it does?", and are just mistakenly calling Britain "England", (a thing which, incidentally, really infuriates us Scots), then the answer is as above, it is a composite of three of the constituent nations in the state of the UK.

The Bonnie Blue flag was popularly used prior to and during the Civil War by many residents of the Southern states. It is considered the unofficial flag of the South from 1860 to 1861 and was first used as the Flag of the Republic of West Florida on September 11, 1810, the Flag of the Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1839 and the Flag of the Republic of Mississippi in 1861. Today, the "Bonnie Blue" flag is part of the state flags of North Carolina, Texas, and Nevada.

National motto: When the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost, reminding us of our national motto, "In God We Trust." After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it takes on the appearance of a cocked hat, ever reminding us of the soldiers who served under General George Washington and the sailors and marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones who were followed by their comrades and shipmates in the Armed Forces of the United States, preserving for us the rights, privileges, and freedoms we enjoy today.

The "immigrants" or colonists originally came from Spain to St. Augustine, Florida. Which, at the time was not one of the "Thirteen Colonies" and did not become one for awhile. The first place the colonists arrived was Plymouth Massachusetts.

The yellow means "bone of those who sacrified their lives in war"

No. See the related link for Borneo's flag.

The flag of the United States Marine Corps represents freedom and bravery. A dedicated agent will be happy to help you find more information on their official website.

The Russian flag has no symbol superimposed on it.

Previously, the flag of the USSR had the symbol of the Sickle and Hammer, which represented their communist laborer ideals.

Go to Google Image search and type "Greek flag"

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