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Three horizontal bands of green, white and black and three red five-pointed stars that arranged in the horizontal line in the center of the white band. 1827 to present [1] Flag of Tunisia: A red field with the large white disk in the center bearing the red crescent moon nearly encircling the red five-pointed star. 1971 to present
The four colors also derived their potency from a verse by 14th century Arab poet Safi al-Din al-Hilli: "White are our acts, black our battles, green our fields, and red our swords." [ 10 ] Pan-Arab colors, used individually in the past, were first combined in 1916 in the flag of the Arab Revolt or Flag of Hejaz. [ 11 ]
To distinguish its flag from that of the United Arab Republic with two green stars, North Yemen used a single green star in the center. [5] The flag featuring three green stars, used by Iraq from 1963 to 2008 and by Syria from 1963 to 1972, symbolized aspirations for unity between Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, as well as the three core pillars of Ba ...
Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a rectangle with a distinct design, such as another national flag), and the overall shape of a flag, such as the aspect ratio of a rectangular flag (whether the flag is square or rectangle, and how wide it is) or the ...
The star is inscribed in an invisible circle whose radius equals one sixth (1 ⁄ 6) of the flag's fly [horizontal length of a flag] and whose centre is the intersection point of the invisible diagonal lines of the flag's rectangular shape. The width of each one of the branches of the star shall be 1 ⁄ 20 of its length.
(white flag, charged with the Olympic rings in blue, yellow, black, green, and red, representing the five continents Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania) Flag of the People's Republic of China (red flag, charged with yellow canton stars in the top left corner, colors reminiscent of the Flag of the Qing dynasty and the Flag of the ...
A mega-fan of the Beatles -- her son has six original sketches by John Lennon framed in his bedroom -- she says musicians aren't "taking seriously" the gravity of this moment in time.
The Behenian fixed stars are a selection of fifteen stars considered especially useful for magical applications in the medieval astrology of Europe and the Arab world. Their name derives from the Arabic bahman , "root," as each was considered a source of astrological power for one or more planets .