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The only three authentic pirate flags known to be in existence
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That is actually epic. Oh man, they're so cool. So this is what the Jolly Roger is actually based on
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I mean, if we go ahead and put the pillaging, the horrific abuse to one side
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Pirates are cool, aren't they? Let's be honest. I mean, look at their flags. I was tired of people thinking I was French
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They got a little Netherlands flag outside of their house. Presumably they're maybe in the US or something
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But they've had a little key to the outside. So it's got Netherlands, France, Russia and Luxembourg
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with the others are slightly lighter blue. And apparently they're accepting that as a forgivable wrong answer
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Okay, that's nice. I feel like if you know flags well enough to know the Luxembourg flag, you're gonna know the difference
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between the Luxembourg flag and the Netherlands flag. But maybe that's just me. Bad Bunny's Puerto Rico flag
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seems to be the pro-independence version from the 1890s. Like where are these celebrities getting their flags from
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that they accidentally end up with the pro-independence version of the Puerto Rican flag from the 1890s
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It's like the Vatican flag that was wrong and was uploaded to the Vatican City Wikipedia page
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And then before you know it, all physical printouts of the Vatican flag were also wrong because they'd all been nabbed from
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Wikipedia. Obviously a German flag, but is it a Nazi flag? I don't even know if this is a German
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flag. Let's have a look in the comments. It's one of those technically not a Nazi flags that are used
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exclusively by, yep, you guessed it, Nazis. Okay, yeah, so not ideal then, I guess. And then on a
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similar theme, is my neighbor a right-wing extremist? So British movement, neo-Nazi group
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Kekistan, alright meme. Celtic cross, often a white power symbol. German empire war ensign, appropriated by Nazis
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My god, imagine actually being a person that wants to put one of these flags outside your house
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But this is where it gets a little bit more complicated because they're probably a right-wing extremist
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if they've got the US no-quarter wartime threat flag up, as well as the US civil peace flag
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Now, there could be 50-50 on their extremism if they're whacking out the Knights Templar flag
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because they might just be a history buff. But I feel like if there's a chance
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that your flag could be interpreted as a fascist flag. You should maybe just put a different flag up
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Then we've got flags that look suspicious, but they're actually pretty innocent. This is a flag from the Mandalorian
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This one's from Star Wars. This is the Tampa Bay lighting hockey team
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And this is a German football team. The straight pride flag looking extremely bisexual
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That is the most gay heterosexual flag I've ever seen. That's so funny
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Oh, that's amazing. My city adopted a flag designed by me. Oh my, there is truly no greater honor
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Cocoa Beach, uptown, downtown, the beaches. And look at that. You've got a lovely little dolphin with some waves
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and he's having a little jump about. Oh, that's amazing. Congratulations on your flag being chosen
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That is so cool. Countries whose national flag changes when they are at war
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So Philippines is just exactly the same, but they swap the blue and the red over
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It's an interesting addition, isn't it? Having a war flag. Imagine if Poland went to war with Indonesia
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and they both flipped their flags like this. Whoa, now that it's almost worth them going for it. Maybe not, you know, because like the the death probably
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Yeah, that probably outweighs the the fun flagness this year's swiss horse of eurovision butchering everyone's flags with square aspect ratio
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I mean i'm kind of in support of the flags being square-ified from a design perspective
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Imagine if they weren't and they were all just completely different dimensions It's just weird and some of the flags would be too small because of them being extra long
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I don't think they've been butchered. I think they've edited them in quite a nice efficient way It's not like the cross has been half cropped out for Malta or anything
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Look at that. It's perfect. Norway's powerlifting logo is a barbell that looks like their flag
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That is incredible Look at that And she about to lift 240 kg That pretty badass That almost as cool as the pirate flags The ultimate flag combination featuring 16 flags
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Okay, can I identify all of these flags correctly? We have got Australia, Romania slash Chad
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We've got Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, China, Maldives, right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Chad slash Romania's back
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Seychelles, Hungary. That's Brazil. This is the old Libya flag. Yeah, just checking myself
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Uh, that one I know. Is it Christmas Island flag? It is a Christmas Island flag
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That's Kosovo, and then I'm out after that. Seychelles really doing all the work here
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Yeah, without Seychelles, they really wouldn't kind of tie together, would they? So what looks like a trans flag in a Dutch painting dated 1673
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Oh yeah, it does look like that. Wow, how progressive. For transatlantic trips, do you get it
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Do you get it? Trans. World's most unique national flag being waved at protests
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Yeah, Nepal really just made their own rules when it came to their flag. You know, this kind of relates
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The other day, I went back to my old college and I met some students and it had just been like international day at the college
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So they all just had A4 printouts of the Nepalese flag. I autographed like 10 of them
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It was weird. Washington should be the next state to join the redesigned trend
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Ooh, it's an interesting looking concept, isn't it? It's nice. I like it. Little mountains
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Got a nice cute star. What does the current flag look like? Oh, do you see them just get peeled away
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Trees of Western Washington. We've got the sky. We've got the the orchids the five volcanic peaks
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I see you've got the the other two there in front. That's nice. Yeah, I think it's cute
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And then I got a compass rose. It's none of my business I don't live in washington, but I think it looks kind of pretty is this the strangest flag ever? Wow
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Is that a real flag? It's just two completely unrelated things shoved together
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Oh flag of zara sai in lithuania has entered the battle. Oh my god
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It's a stag slash fish with a wonky sword. That is incredible
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Oh my God. You have no idea how random city flags can get. This is another Lithuanian flag
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Maybe we need to do an entire video just looking at weird Lithuanian flags. That's so interesting
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Whoa, look at this one. This is in Serbia. We need more local flags in the UK
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We have county flags, but there's only like 40 counties. There's so many cities that could have like interesting flags
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Imagine if all villages had a flag. Actually, it's a terrible idea, isn't it
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What? Togdor the Burninator. What is this? All right, going back to this flag for a second
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Apparently, it's a local holiday on the town where a guy with a fake horse goes around people's houses and dances to them
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Wow. That is incredible. Ukraine's national flag day-to-day, extra realistic representation. Wow, yeah, I mean, you can see why they came up with that flag design, can't you
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Every few weeks, we fly a different interesting flag from our house with a little sign out front describing it
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Couldn't resist flying this flag. This is the Austro-Hungarian-style pride flag. Gender and sexuality can be complicated
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You know what else is complicated? The 1869 to 1918 civil ensign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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So let's combine the two. Wow, that's really quite something. What a cute thing to do though
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Just flying out obscure flags every month. What's this flag I saw yesterday at the No Kings Day protest
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Mmm, is that One Piece? Do I know that? Yes, it's from the anime One Piece
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The straw hat pirate flag from the anime One Piece has been used as a protest symbol in several Southeast Asian nations
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Mmm, pretty interesting. I think I just- what I'm learning is I like any flag that's got a skull on it
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I think I just like skulls, that's why I keep buying t-shirts with skulls on them. In 1906, Sweden voted to lighten the blue on their flag
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Today there is a small debate about whether it should return to its darker shade What do you think Okay so this is the current Swedish flag And if you been around for a while you know that Jack Sucks at Geography loves himself a bit of light blue
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But that being said, there is something quite striking on this occasion about the dark blue in contrast with the yellow
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I do quite like it. I'm on board with either. Sweden, have a bit of fun with it. Knock yourselves out
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By the way, just quickly pausing the flag fun to plead with you to subscribe to this channel
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I would really appreciate that growing quite slowly these days. and it'd be lovely to gain a few extra subscribers from this video
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Saw someone with an Austria-Hungary Pride flag at Philadelphia Pride today. Do you know what
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The Austria-Hungary Pride flag is really making some moves. It is getting out there
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Where do you, like, order one of these? What is this flag above a crepe shop in Osaka, Japan
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It looks Canadian, doesn't it? Let's find out. It's the flag of Brittany, the only Celtic-cultured region of France
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Well, I was not particularly right, but I guess, you know, Canada and France
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they've got some ties. They're known for crepes, among other things. Even in Paris, you'll find many crepes bars adorning
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the Breton flag. That makes you think. Totally logical. Fair enough. Seems they forgot the text
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on the Saudi Arabian flag. How does that happen? You can't make a flag football if you're not
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willing to accurately display the flags. I assume they decided that the text was controversial to
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wherever this is being sold, which is obviously silly. What existing flag looks the most dystopian
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dictatorial in your opinion? So this is the flag of Amsterdam, right? There was a brief period of
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time where I used to think it was the Lamanberg flag, which is embarrassing. Poor reflection on
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me, but I think this is a really cool flag. Flag of Magnitogorsk, an industrial city in Russia
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Yeah, there is something really disturbing about that. Russia have got some very cool regional
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flags. It's the Austria-Hungary Pride flag again. Wow, it's beautiful every time. Today
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the UK officially ceded the Kegos Islands archipelago to Mauritius. Therefore, the British Indian Ocean Territory no longer exists. What? This was nine months ago. How have
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I not heard this? Apparently, it technically still exists, but it is in the process of being
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transferred to Mauritius. In 2025, the UK signed a treaty while retaining a 99-year lease to the
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joint UK-US military base. Fair enough. I mean, obviously, at this point, it makes very little
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sense for the UK to just randomly control these regions that they really shouldn't have anything
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to do with. Why does Bosnia's flag have these cut-off stars instead of only whole ones? That's
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actually a great point, something I've never thought about before. Like, what other flags do you know where part of the design is literally cropped out? It's meant to signify that the line
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of stars continues infinitely above and below the flag, which is actually quite sweet messaging
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isn't it? Redesign of US states and territories in the style of the California flag. Oh
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so I'm a big fan of the California flag. So I am absolutely a big fan of all of these. Oh
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look at that. Look at all the little cute animals. What's our favorite on each slide? Obviously
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I'm a huge fan of the polar bear. Do you get warthogs in Arkansas? Fish is pretty unreal
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I love this little finch as well. I might have to go with the alligator to be fair. Oh, but look at the blue whale. Yeah, this is way too difficult. We've got a lovely little crab
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We've got a pelican up there. Oh, look at the donkey as well. Yeah, these are all good
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Is that a buffalo in Oklahoma? It's pretty amazing looking. We've got a couple of beavers there, fair play
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And look at the raccoon as well. It's beautiful. We've got the orca. We've got, is that a badger
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I can't tell. It looks like a badger, but I guess it's an American badger. Side note, big fan of badgers
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Feel like they don't get enough love for how unbelievably epic they are over in the UK
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So it seems the UK has been awarded a new flying design by a Tunisian bank
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So random bank in tunisia has just added whales to the middle of our flag. How does this happen
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I love these kind of things like what what what it just makes no sense how this actually ends up happening
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Jamaica is the only country in the world whose national flag has no red blue or white Well yeah Welcome to day one of learning about flags What this getting up for everyone knows that What if country flags has special versions for kids Okay well that pretty cute to be fair
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What? Mozambique flag looking a little bit different. Interesting. Do you know what? I hate these more and more
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Yeah, this is actually terrible. Proposed flag for Canada during the National Flag Design Competition in the 1960s
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Wow, imagine if this had been chosen so different. I love the Canada geese, though, to be fair
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My attempt on putting the Welsh Dragon flag onto the Union Jack. Get that sent to the Tunisian bank, Pronto
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Can't choose a flag for the English language? Just don't choose it. I mean, I get it
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Lots of countries speak English even as a second language. From a design perspective, I don't like how it just says English twice
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but I'm actually all right with it. Is the reason why Albania, Montenegro and Serbia
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all have double-headed eagles on their flags? Why have I never made that connection before
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That is actually very obvious, isn't it? And they're all next to each other
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It's a bison-tyne thing. Oh, I hate seeing Byzantine because I never know how to pronounce it
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Byzantine? Byzantine? But anyway, in the past, the Roman Empire would be represented by two eagles
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one looking west and the other east, as if guarding it. Now, over time, the symbol shifted and became a two-headed eagle
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The two-headed eagle became a symbol common across the Balkans because noble families adopted it to show their tie-slash-connection
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to the Byzantine, brackets, Roman Empire. Actually, very interesting. Wait, but apparently there's some misconceptions
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The Roman Empire was represented by a single eagle, which was typically used by the legions
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the double-headed eagle is a much older symbol from the Bronze Age era of Greece and Turkey
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and that was then adopted by certain dynasties of the Byzantine Empire. The reason the symbol stuck around likely has to do with how well it represents the idea of the Empire
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partly as a note between East and West, partly as being the second coming of the Roman Empire
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probably why it's also used by the Russian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire
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Wait, but now the person underneath is disagreeing with the person that disagreed with the person originally
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Oh, I don't know. Let's just say it's related to the Roman Empire. Either way, it's cool. It looks really cool. Little two-headed eagle. I'm on board. Scary flag
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Titan Costa Rican ambassadors meet. Very similar flags. At first, I thought they were both just
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twiddling their flags, kind of between their crotch, but I realize now that it is sat in front
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of them. It's not been framed great, has it? They need a bigger massive behind, really. Looks a bit
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low-key. It looks kind of like, you know, when you're censoring a naked person in a cartoon
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which is never what you want when you're actually just an ambassador of two countries having an
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important meeting. How much eagle is on the flag? Okay, so most eagle flag is Albania, 29%. Then
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we've got Montenegro, then we've got Serbia. A little bit of eagle over on the Moldovan flag
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3% on the Mexican flag. Egypt? Yeah, people love eagles. They've got a 3% eagle and then 1
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for Kazakhstan and Zimbabwe. No, Zambia, that's Zambia. Don't listen to me. Surely that is more
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than 1%. I'm not accepting the accuracy there. If you're going to take the shape of this and divide
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it up. It's got to be like 7%, right? Today I visited the Estonian-Russian border. I love seeing
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some borders. I need to go to some borders. Look at that. You've got one big Russian flag over there
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and then you've got the Estonian flag over here. It's just something really cool looking about it. A new flag for New Zealand. Okay, so it is N and Z for New Zealand, but kind of mixed together
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I think I like it. I almost absolutely hate it. Do you know what? I don't think that's good
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actually i think there's too much red i think it's a nice logo that i think if you actually see this
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on a fly it would look very red focused maybe i do like it i don't know what do you think let me
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know in the comments and for now we are going to end off this flags i find interesting video
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