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45 years ago, on June 25 1978, the original gay pride flag, with eight stripes, was flown at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco.
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Vexillology
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On June 25, 1975, Mozambique gained independence from Portugal, under this flag, which remained in use until 1983.
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Now as then, the Kalashnikov makes Mozambique the only country with a flag featuring a modern firearm.
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Kanaka Maoli flag, a proposed alternative flag for Hawaii without colonial imagery.
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Today is International Olympic Day. Here's the Olympic flag. The five rings represent the five continents, but in no ring is connected to a specific continent.
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Today is the national day of Greenland, and the day that the flag got adopted in 1985!
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The Mali Federation existed briefly as an independent state from June 20-August 20 1961, before splitting into Mali and Senegal. This was its flag.
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Today, Juneteenth is celebrated in USA, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans. Here's an African-American flag.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Flag
Some bastard beat me posting the Juneteenth flag, as I planned for my daily post about today's date. So had to be this flag instead, which is also interesting.
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On June 17 1944, 79 years ago, Iceland became independent under this flag.
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The flag has a website with quite a lot of content:
https://sussexflag.wordpress.com.
Here you can read about the history and symbolism of the flag, and for example see the six rapal flags of Sussex:
Apparently it is driven by some enthusiast, highly engaged in the flag. My favourite part is the page cracking down on incorrectly used flags for Sussex, including images like those below. https://sussexflag.wordpress.com/councilflags/
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The factual accuracy of this legend is somewhat dubious, but it is a fascinating legend which few flags can match.
Even if the flag does not date back to the battle of Lyndanisse, the Danish flag is (arguably) the national flag that has been in continuous use the longest, dating back to the 13th or 14th century.
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Recently on protests in Serbia someone waved with this flag and reminded me how cool it is. I like it more than current Serbian flag.
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Apricot yellow recalls that Vagharshapat was a royal town. Purple symbolizes the Catholicate. The emblem is bordered by a gray ring charged with yellow grapevines, substituted in the emblem's upper part by a castle with brown windows, protruding out of the ring. The inner ring is blue, inscribed on town with the town's name in Armenian capital letters, "ԷՋՄԻԱԾԻՆ", and three crosses. The central, apricot yellow, disc, outlined in orange, is charged with a purple quaterfoil bordered in blue and outlined in orange featuring four white archangels and, in the center, a blue disc bordered in apricot yellow and inscribed with the orange letter "E", "Է", for "Ejmjatsin" and "Essence".
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The ensign of France (the flag used at sea) has some interesting proportions. Allegedly it looks balanced at a distance.
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June 13 seems like a slow day in the history of vexillology, but at least there's this flag.
Info: https://www.roswell-usa.com/city/flag.htm
And yes, it's a UFO in the top left corner.
