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The first Confederate flag and five other nations that have had sovereignty over Texas (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States) appear above one of the side entrances to the Capitol. They also appear on the reverse of the Seal of Texas, which is the subject of a floor mosaic in the Capitol Extension.
The krstaš-barjak is known that Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55) adopted the Byzantine cross flag [3] (divellion, which was purple and had a golden cross in the center). [4] According to Serbian epic poetry, during the Ottoman period, hajduks had war flags with crosses (krstaš-barjak) [citation needed] or icons of saints ...
It was a sea of symbolism that day from American flags to Nazi imagery, Confederate flags, the Gadsden flag. Laura Scofield is a vexillologist, a fancy term for someone who studies flags.
Lightning bolts were a common symbol of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, appearing on uniforms, newspaper mastheads, badges and on the movement's flags. The symbol completely replaced the fasces used from 1932 to 1935 with the adoption of the Flash and Circle.
The Cross of Honor is in the form of a cross pattée suspended from a metal bar with space for engraving. It has no cloth ribbon. The obverse displays the Confederate battle flag placed on the center thereof surrounded by a wreath, with the inscription UNITED DAUGHTERS [of the] CONFEDERACY TO THE U. C. V. (the UCV is the United Confederate Veterans) on the four arms of the cross.
Republican former governor Phil Bryant on Thursday advocated replacing the Confederate symbol in the Mississippi state flag with another design.
South Carolina should remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds, religious and local elected leaders urged on Monday, after a white gunman last week allegedly shot dead ...
Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.