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The Flag You've Never Seen: Why Some Countries Fly One Banner on Land and Another at Sea
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Sail into a Swedish naval base and look up at the flagpole. The flag snapping over the base is not the flag printed on Swedish passports or road signs...
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Somalia's Flag Has Five Points. Only Two of Them Are Somalia.
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Somalia's flag has five points on its star. Only two of them have ever belonged to Somalia. That is not a design flaw. It is the point. When Somalia's...
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The Flag North Korea Called Superstition: How One Peninsula Split an Ancient Cosmology in Two
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In August 1948, a Korean Workers' Party theorist named Kim Tu-bong sat down to explain why his country needed a brand new flag. He didn't soften the a...
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