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National emblem of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Armiger Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Adopted 15 August 2021 ; 3 years ago (2021-08-15) Motto لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله "There is no god except Allah; Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." (Shahada) The national emblem of Afghanistan is a national symbol of Afghanistan that has appeared in some form on the flag ...
The Lunar Flag Assembly (LFA) was a kit containing a flag of the United States designed to be erected on the Moon during the Apollo program. Six such flag assemblies were planted on the Moon. The nylon flags were hung on telescoping staffs and horizontal bars constructed of one-inch anodized aluminum tubes.
The current flag design often evolved over the years (e.g. the flag of the United States) or can be a re-adoption of an earlier, historic flag (e.g. the flag of Libya). The year the current flag design first came into use is listed in the third column.
A new seal was designed, with a rising sun (a reference to the former name, Khorasan, meaning "Land of the Rising Sun"), a pulpit and a book, ribbons with the national colors, a cogwheel for industry, and a red star for communism. The seal's ribbons and wheat has similarities to the then-East German and Romanian seals.
Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars. Lunar calendars follow the lunar phase while lunisolar calendars follow both the lunar phase and the time of the solar year. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in various ways at diverse dates.
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.
Central African Republic: 1903 1958 Central African Republic: Chad: 1959 Chad: Chile: 1812 1817 1818 Chile: China: 1888 [4] 1912 [4] 1928 [4] 1949 [4] China, People's Republic of: Colombia: 1525 1785 1811 1814 1816 1819 1820 1821 1831 1834 1861 1861 Colombia: Comoros: 1887 1963 1975 1978 1992 1996 2001 Comoros: Congo, Democratic Republic of the ...
The new year is on the new moon closest to Lichun (typically 4 February). The new year is on the first new moon after Dahan (typically 20 January) It has been found that Chinese New Year moves back by either 10, 11, or 12 days in most years. If it falls on or before 31 January, then it moves forward in the next year by either 18, 19, or 20 days ...