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"With flying colours" ("with flying colors" in American English) is a popular idiom of the English language that is used to describe how well someone has completed a task. For example, a common use of the phrase is to refer to someone having passed a test or other examination " with flying colours ," i.e. passed the test easily or with an ...
Flag of Rio Grande do Norte; Flag of Rio Grande do Sul; Flag of Romania; Flag of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1965–1989) Flag of the City of Rome; Flag of Rondônia; Flag of Roraima; Flag of the Royal Military College of Canada; Presidential Flag of Russia; Flag of Rwanda; Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Flag of Saint Lucia; Flag of ...
A flag divided from top-left to bottom-right by a white line, with a white cuckoo on black in the hoist, and a white tower (defaced with a green key) on green in the fly. 2011: Flag of Kingswinford reg (Town, West Midlands) 2013: Flag of Newbury reg (Town, Berkshire) 2009: Flag of Newton Abbot (Town and civil parish, Devon)
English-speaking Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and English-speaking South Africa (who constitute a very small minority in that country) are also significant populations. The English-speaking Caribbean, English-speaking Oceania and the English-speaking educated populations in Africa and India constitute other important nodes.
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have showcased quite a bit of the red, white and blue colors that many of the national flags have.
A diagonally divided flag between two or more nation states may be used when more than one country is a major user of a language. Examples of this are the flags of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada to indicate the English language, the flags of China and Taiwan to represent Mandarin, the flags of France, Belgium, and Canada to represent the French language, the flags of Spain ...
The Black Banner or Black Standard used by Abu Muslim in his uprising leading to the Abbasid Revolution in 747. During the German Peasants' War in the 16th century, the white, black and pink flag was used by the revolting farmers. Afghanistan flew a solid black flag from 1709 to 1738 and from 1880 to 1901 (see Flag of Afghanistan).
How Black Americans like the Harlem Hellfighters, Ronald McNair, Bessie Coleman, Alexa Canady, and Robert Smalls made history. 11 inspiring Black American heroes whose stories deserve to be celebrated