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"antipicardie" ? why do they hate the picards so much that they named their country after this feeling ?
An alternative name to Australia, referencing its original name, terra australis incognita. Also referencing some material, including memes, where it is considered "upside-down-land." Also, what's wrong with some French Australians having similar sympathies of their mother country like their English counterparts?
The United States of "Greenland":
Here is another toy soldiers' Army Men flag, this time inspired by the United States of America. It helps that in some packs of toy soldiers the American flag was sometimes simplified down to just a few stripes and a few stars, because the manufacturer was a on a budget to produce even cheaper packs of toy soldiers. At least the ones that I got had very crude American flags.
^^^ --- The Green Army's own flag. Tan Army beware.
Here is another toy soldiers' Army Men flag, this time inspired by the United States of America. It helps that in some packs of toy soldiers the American flag was sometimes simplified down to just a few stripes and a few stars, because the manufacturer was a on a budget to produce even cheaper packs of toy soldiers. At least the ones that I got had very crude American flags.
^^^ --- The Green Army's own flag. Tan Army beware.
how does "before/against picardie" reference "unknown southern land" ?
Why do you assume I'm french ?
wait, what are you asking ?
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"Anti" is not taken as literally "against" in this context. As Picardy is in the Northern Hemisphere, flipping it vertically would count as it's "Anti."
I reread the post I written, and yeah, it's a confusing thing to read. The question at the end is not assuming you're French, as I am making a question that is more suggestive than inquisitive. Suggestive that the Australians, whether French or English, have a preposition that they are a counteract to their mother country back in Europe, playing the "anti" in Antipicardie.
OK, here's Delaware. There's not much to it beyond the state colors and the black star symbolizing Delaware's status as the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Isaac Beach
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The flag of the Republic of The Saviour, a formerly British-conquered El Salvador that gained self government in the 1910s and became a republic in the 90s. The 10 stripes stand for the original 10 provinces (There are 13 now) while the CoA is an old symbol first adopted in the 1820s that has gone through various iterations since then, this one being distinct for its bilingualism. Part of a map.
Another flag from my PSA universe. This is the North Atlantic Federation, a state formed after the Federal States of America and Canada joined the European Federation. It also includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Eventually, the Federation constructs a purpose-built capital in the Atlantic. Anchored to three of the Azores Islands, Atlantea is one of the most advanced cities in the world, serving as a four-way hub for air and vactrain travel between Europe, North and South America, and Africa.
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AlvinTheCreator
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Flag for an independent Alsace-Lorraine, combining elements from the Alsatian and Lorrainer emblems. The black shield represents not only strength and unity against adversity but also stands as a remembrance for those lost during the First World War, a unique feature for a national flag. The combined Equatorian and Iron Crosses inside the shield represent Alsace-Lorraine's mixed Franco-German heritage and the hopes for peace between both nations.
Dorozhand
Banned
República de Florida
In 1800, Rafael Riego was impressed into the army to fight anti-colonial movements in the Americas. That same year, Fernando Prince of Asturias and a cadre of reactionary officers and politicians, united with an angry populace in opposition to the alliance with Revolutionary France, launched a coup against the liberal Carlos IV. After a civil war, Fernando VII entered Madrid in 1804, and when in 1806 the last liberal strongholds on the Mediterranean coast were taken Carlos IV went into exile to Parma, where he would stay until his restoration with the fall of Napoleon. Fernando VII was killed during the Peninsular War that followed his seizure of power and subsequent declaration of war on France.
During the civil war, Spanish forces throughout the Americas received conflicting messages from the rival governments who both attempted to recall them to fight the war at home. Riego, by this time an officer stationed in Florida, received one such letter from Fernando's government, and fearing execution whether he returned to Spain or disobeyed and remained in San Agustín, he deserted his command along with several other liberal officers he had connections with. His faithful band of rebels, all now wanted out-laws, hid in the forests and stayed with a group of Yatsiminoli for several years.
When news reached them that Fernando VII had been killed and Spain was under French occupation, they came out of hiding. Carlos IV was now the sole Bourbon monarch of a conquered Spain, and officers around the world pledged their loyalty to him in the war against the French.
However, when the war was over and Carlos IV was returned to the throne, he reinstated the deeply unpopular Manuel de Godoy, and refused to accept the Cortes of Cádiz, saying that the Cortes had not been assembled in the traditional caste-based composition. As promised, a new Cortes was held in 1816 in the customary manner, but the resulting constitution pleased almost no-one. It was both too reactionary, providing the king with no checks on power and declaring catholicism the sole and unique religion of the country, yet it was also too liberal, allowing extensive royal powers over the church and the right to seize church assets for the need of the country.
The seizure of church property, with the motive to restore Spain's shattered finances, sent roars of anger across the empire, and despite that it had been done before, this time the anger grew until radical revolutionaries had sprung up in places they hadn't been before, led by unlikely people. In Mexico, catholic priests had been instrumental in leading the first insurrections, and in Florida, missionary priests led similar acts of protest inspired by them. Riego and his revolutionaries, now joined by angry crowds, seized the fortifications at San Agustín in 1818 with the help of a mutiny among the black soldiers at Fort Mose, forming a new republican government before launching expeditions to take control of the rest of the territory. During this time, a tricolor of orange, white, and red began to be used as a rebel symbol, its design taking inspiration from the French Revolutionary tricolor and from the abundance of sweet oranges and other citrus fruits in the richly verdant country.
With the colonial administrations falling apart, Carlos IV agreed to a deal with the rebels in Florida, proposed by Godoy, in an effort to retain at any cost the invaluable tax revenues of the remaining colonies as a new civil war threatened to break out over the Cortes of 1816. The rebels were given control over the territory, with the right to hold a Cortes in any form they chose in Florida, and that the territory should be formed into a kingdom under the rule of the Bourbon house. After being briefly made Prime Minister, Riego stepped down from this position to retire after one year, as the newly enthroned Carlos V held very cold feelings towards him, and over the next few years the king enacted strict controls over Florida, forcing free black subjects and indigenous peoples into slavery in order to harvest cotton in the north and to prevent rebellions, and ordering the formation of a new Cortes of Florida in the traditional manner of the Spanish Cortes, while such an arrangement was very difficult and negotiations dragged on.
Opposing the expansion of chattel slavery were the same clergy that had supported independence, and the missions rose up once again behind Riego, who was convinced to return to politics. With the final expulsion of the Spanish from the country, he was proclaimed King of Florida by a new Cortes dominated by a monarchist faction. A famous painting depicts this event, Riego wearing a bicorne adorned with a cockade of orange, white, and red, solidifying the tricolor as a widely-recognized national symbol, while the coat of arms was designed by Riego himself, and the broken shackle with sun added following the formation of the Third Republic.
In 1800, Rafael Riego was impressed into the army to fight anti-colonial movements in the Americas. That same year, Fernando Prince of Asturias and a cadre of reactionary officers and politicians, united with an angry populace in opposition to the alliance with Revolutionary France, launched a coup against the liberal Carlos IV. After a civil war, Fernando VII entered Madrid in 1804, and when in 1806 the last liberal strongholds on the Mediterranean coast were taken Carlos IV went into exile to Parma, where he would stay until his restoration with the fall of Napoleon. Fernando VII was killed during the Peninsular War that followed his seizure of power and subsequent declaration of war on France.
During the civil war, Spanish forces throughout the Americas received conflicting messages from the rival governments who both attempted to recall them to fight the war at home. Riego, by this time an officer stationed in Florida, received one such letter from Fernando's government, and fearing execution whether he returned to Spain or disobeyed and remained in San Agustín, he deserted his command along with several other liberal officers he had connections with. His faithful band of rebels, all now wanted out-laws, hid in the forests and stayed with a group of Yatsiminoli for several years.
When news reached them that Fernando VII had been killed and Spain was under French occupation, they came out of hiding. Carlos IV was now the sole Bourbon monarch of a conquered Spain, and officers around the world pledged their loyalty to him in the war against the French.
However, when the war was over and Carlos IV was returned to the throne, he reinstated the deeply unpopular Manuel de Godoy, and refused to accept the Cortes of Cádiz, saying that the Cortes had not been assembled in the traditional caste-based composition. As promised, a new Cortes was held in 1816 in the customary manner, but the resulting constitution pleased almost no-one. It was both too reactionary, providing the king with no checks on power and declaring catholicism the sole and unique religion of the country, yet it was also too liberal, allowing extensive royal powers over the church and the right to seize church assets for the need of the country.
The seizure of church property, with the motive to restore Spain's shattered finances, sent roars of anger across the empire, and despite that it had been done before, this time the anger grew until radical revolutionaries had sprung up in places they hadn't been before, led by unlikely people. In Mexico, catholic priests had been instrumental in leading the first insurrections, and in Florida, missionary priests led similar acts of protest inspired by them. Riego and his revolutionaries, now joined by angry crowds, seized the fortifications at San Agustín in 1818 with the help of a mutiny among the black soldiers at Fort Mose, forming a new republican government before launching expeditions to take control of the rest of the territory. During this time, a tricolor of orange, white, and red began to be used as a rebel symbol, its design taking inspiration from the French Revolutionary tricolor and from the abundance of sweet oranges and other citrus fruits in the richly verdant country.
With the colonial administrations falling apart, Carlos IV agreed to a deal with the rebels in Florida, proposed by Godoy, in an effort to retain at any cost the invaluable tax revenues of the remaining colonies as a new civil war threatened to break out over the Cortes of 1816. The rebels were given control over the territory, with the right to hold a Cortes in any form they chose in Florida, and that the territory should be formed into a kingdom under the rule of the Bourbon house. After being briefly made Prime Minister, Riego stepped down from this position to retire after one year, as the newly enthroned Carlos V held very cold feelings towards him, and over the next few years the king enacted strict controls over Florida, forcing free black subjects and indigenous peoples into slavery in order to harvest cotton in the north and to prevent rebellions, and ordering the formation of a new Cortes of Florida in the traditional manner of the Spanish Cortes, while such an arrangement was very difficult and negotiations dragged on.
Opposing the expansion of chattel slavery were the same clergy that had supported independence, and the missions rose up once again behind Riego, who was convinced to return to politics. With the final expulsion of the Spanish from the country, he was proclaimed King of Florida by a new Cortes dominated by a monarchist faction. A famous painting depicts this event, Riego wearing a bicorne adorned with a cockade of orange, white, and red, solidifying the tricolor as a widely-recognized national symbol, while the coat of arms was designed by Riego himself, and the broken shackle with sun added following the formation of the Third Republic.
Isaac Beach
Banned
So, picking a flag for a United Kingdom-in-Exile in Kenya that's gone native after a number of decades and is choosing a new flag. I've got a couple of variations on the same design; which do you all like?
AlvinTheCreator
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In my opinion, number 2 fits better with the "African" theme.So, picking a flag for a United Kingdom-in-Exile in Kenya that's gone native after a number of decades and is choosing a new flag. I've got a couple of variations on the same design; which do you all like?
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