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  2. Pennsylvania Dutch - Wikipedia

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    An alternative interpretation commonly found among laypeople and scholars alike is that the Dutch in Pennsylvania Dutch is an anglicization or "corruption" (folk-etymological re-interpretation) of the Pennsylvania German autonym deitsch, which in the Pennsylvania German language refers to the Pennsylvania Dutch or Germans in general.

  3. Pennsylvania Dutch Country - Wikipedia

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    The Greater Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pennsylvania Dutch: Die Breet-Deitscherei (The Broad Dutchery) refers to this Pennsylvania region but also includes smaller enclaves of Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking areas in New York, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Virginia, and the Canadian province ...

  4. List of flags by color combination - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals , coats of arms , and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields.

  5. Why do so many countries have red, white and blue flags? - AOL

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    The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have showcased quite a bit of the red, white and blue colors that many of the national flags have. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...

  6. National colours - Wikipedia

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    Black, red, green and white Blue (Sports) Azerbaijan: Sky blue, red and green Bahrain: Red and white Bangladesh: Red and green White (football) [5] First Flag of Bangladesh (1971) Bhutan: Orange, gold and white Brunei: Yellow, black, white and red Blue and green (football) Cambodia: Red and blue Black (football) China

  7. Flag families - Wikipedia

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    Dutch Prince's Flag from 1575 to 1652. Dutch and pan-Slavic colors are a family of flags, usually with red, white, and blue stripes, inspired by the Dutch and later Russian flags. The first flag of simple stripes were the livery colors of William I, Prince of Orange, used in the mid-16th century.

  8. Hex sign - Wikipedia

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    Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. [1] Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later when commercial ready-mixed paint became readily ...

  9. Flags of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The flag of Turkey is a red flag with a white crescent moon and a star in its centre. The flag is called Ay Yıldız (literally, moon star) or Albayrak (Red flag). It was adopted in 1844 with the Tanzimat reforms; though the shape, placement and shade of the colour [clarification needed] vary. The geometric proportions of the flag were legally ...