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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Flag of the Caribbean Sea



The flag of the Caribbean Sea uses a white background with four wavy blue lines. Above the wavy lines that represent the water are five five pointed stars. From fly to hoist the stars are coloured black, blue, red, green and yellow. It was first proposed on August 28, 2012 by Julius C.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

White Blood Cell Protein Markers/Plates from Osmosis Jones - 2001

This is the encoded protein marker that fights against disease. All white blood cells have id proteins to allow them access to technologies that protect the body from death. This vexillological like symbol is one of them.













Geographic Flags - Trinity Flag for Kenya, Romania, and Qatar

 Trinity Flags are for nations that reside in the continental overlap between Asia, Africa, and Europe.  In this case Kenya, Romania, and Bahrain have to right to a trinity flag which is divided into three regions that represent Africa, Asia, and Europe.


The Kenya Trinity Flag uses the same national colours of Kenya but the shield of arms is coloured differently.








 Romania is due north of Asia and Africa.  The arms are altered in trinity fashion yet retain the national colours.
Qatar is a peninsular Asian Nation much like Korea yet is in the trinity zone.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Geographic Flags - Trinity Flag for Malawi

Malawi is due to change her flag within the next 50 years, however at least her Trinity Flag shall remain constant.

US Flag in Airplane the Movie - 1980

 The US flag make a small appearance in the movie Airplane 1980.  During a flashback the hero Ted Stryker uses art therapy to heal from his war wounds.  He paints from a real life model where a man is standing on one leg while holding a gun in his left hand and rescuing a baby in the other, while doing yoga as an explosion goes off in the background.
On the right side of the US jeep as small US flag can be seen by his standing foot.










Monday, April 1, 2013

The Tulips that fooled the Greedy Fools!

April is often associated with tulips, but the first of the month is  associated with fools. 

Here is an edited close up of the tulip flag from the painting Wagon of Fools by Hendrik Gerritsz Pot.  Hendrik was from the original Harlem in the Netherlands.The April Fools Tulip Flag has a light blue background with a tulip bulb with four white tulips shoots. 


 Economies often pop or bust, and one most famous accounts of a bubble busted economy is associated with the lovable tulip in the 1600s. 

In 1637, wild trade and speculation in fashionable and novel tulip futures led to one of the first modern economic bubbles.  It was a memorable moment and this unfortunate aspect of 'free' economies was memorialized in the a contemporary painting.

Geographic Flags - Trinity Flags for Bahrain, Cyprus, and Madagascar

 Trinity flags are a class of geographic flag, a marker of sorts, to indicate that a particular nation has part of its national territory in the tri-continental zone where Europe, Asia, and Africa are aligned by longitude. 

Cyprus, Madagascar, and Bahrain are island nations that wholly reside in this geographic zone.

The Cyprus Trinity Flag uses the colours of the national flag of Cyprus.









 The Madagascar Trinity flag is based on the flag of Madagascar.
Bahrain's Trinity flag takes colours and conserves design elements.