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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.
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Flag of the Central American Integration System: Flags of North American sovereign states. Flag Date Use Description 1967 – ...
This is a list of clock towers by location, including only clock towers based on the following definition: A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall.
Pages in category "Clock towers in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... John McGraw Tower; U. Union Depot (Denver ...
In Song dynasty China, an astronomical clock tower was designed by Su Song and erected at Kaifeng in 1088, featuring a liquid escapement mechanism. [2] In England, a clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben, at Westminster, in 1288; [3] [4] and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral. [3]
The clock tower is a major local landmark, it can be seen on the city's official seal The Simpsonville Clock Tower was built in 1987 and donated by then-mayor Ralph S. Hendricks. It serves as an icon and main symbol of Simpsonville, South Carolina. [ 1 ]
The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it. [9] An urban myth claimed that if the flag touched the ground, it had to be destroyed under the Flag Code; however, it has been affirmed by the American Legion and state governments that this is not the case. [10] [11] The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery.