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Later, a black and white striped hoist called the Dhandimathi (Dhivehi: ދަނޑިމަތި) was added to the flag. [1] [2] This version of the flag was used until early in the 20th century when Abdul Majeed Didi added a crescent to the national flag. At the same time, a distinct state flag was made, which had the crescent on a green rectangle.
The Red Cross symbol. The Red Cross on white background was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention. The ideas to introduce a uniform and neutral protection symbol as well as its specific design originally came from Dr. Louis Appia, a Swiss surgeon, and Swiss General Henri Dufour, founding members of the International Committee.
Consists of white crescent and star on a red background. The crescent and star flag was first adopted in 1844 during the Tanzimat period in the reign of Sultan Abdul Majid, and it was enacted as the national flag of the Republic of Turkey with the Turkish Flag Law No. 2994 on May 29, 1936, in the Republican period. On September 22, 1983, with ...
A crescent shape (/ ˈ k r ɛ s ən t /, UK also / ˈ k r ɛ z ən t /) [1] is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase (as it appears in the northern hemisphere) in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.
English: Astronomical and astrological of the crescent (first quarter) Moon, and alchemical symbol of silver. Also at Unicode U+263D (☽). Also at Unicode U+263D (☽). Français : Symbole astronomique et astrologique de la Lune croissante (premier quartier), et symbole alchimique de l'argent.
The black and white snapper has a wide Indo-Pacific range. It occurs along the eastern coastline of Africa from the Red Sea south as far as South Africa, the Seychelles, islands in the Mozambique Channel, Madagascar and western Mascarenes, east to the Maldives, Laccadives, the Chagos Islands, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island and Sri Lanka.
In this central layer the pictorial elements are equal: birds and fish are alternately foreground or background, depending on whether the eye concentrates on light or dark elements. The birds take on an increasing three-dimensionality in the upward direction, and the fish, in the downward direction.
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