Vexillology

More Flags:

https://smarthistory.org/asafo-flags/

Which is your favourite?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24082070

lmao rekt

"Through struggle you will attain your rights!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Rebellion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Flag

My favorite flag of all time. It was firstly used in the Arab Revolt, designed by sir Mark Sykes.

After the Arab Revolt, it was used for the Kingdom of Hejaz.

Most famously, the flag went on to inspire most flags in the Arab world, and the legacy of the flag lives on through the flags of Palestine, Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait, and more.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22347419

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22347413

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surrender_flag_of_the_Civil_War_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG

Yes, it's a flag of surrender. And also a literal dishtowel. They used what they had, which wasn't much, apparently, lmao

It's a bit ugly tbqh. Qing dynasty flag was much cooler

Designed by deafblind artist Arnaud Balard in 2013, it was adopted by the National Federation of the Deaf of France (Fédération nationale des sourds de France) in 2014 and by the Word Federation of the Deaf in 2023. It's official symbolism is:

• Hand: The signing deaf community and sign languages

• Fingers: Use of sign languages around the world (over 200 languages) and the 5 continents (in order from top to bottom Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania and Africa)

• Turquoise: World color of sign language, deaf culture, and the signing deaf community

• Yellow: Light, life, the awakened mind, and coexistence

• Navy Blue: Planet Earth, humanity, and the color adopted to represent deafness

To review from my previous post,

• 7 Stripes for 7 Articles instead of 13 for 13 colonies.

• 27 Stars for 27 Amendments instead of 50 for 50 states.

• Colors borrowed from Plains Nations cardinal direction colors as a way to include land recognition in the design.

I originally tried using The Statue of Liberty's Torch as a visual divider between both sides, but some folks opined that it was a bit too hard to discern, so instead I leaned a bit more into the land recognition aspect and borrowed a Northeastern Nations bit of iconography, the broken arrow being a symbol of peace, and a two arrow exchange representing war.

Decided to pull a Venice and include a peacetime and wartime variant of the flag just to be quirky:P.