An Expansion of Royal Suits for the Cards

The time has come to expand the playing card universe.  Imagine playing poker, gin rummy or solitaire with these new face cards.  It'll make it more exciting!

The Emperor is now the highest ranking card of the deck in the Nobility Pack, next to an Ace.  Here the Emperor of Spades is wearing the Imperial Crown.  The Emperor is represented by the letter E.  There is also an Emperor of Hearts, Emperor of Diamonds, and Emperor of Clubs. 















 The King of Spades ranks below the Emperor and above the Duke.  Here the King is wearing the Royal British Crowns.















The Duke is a new suit just below the King and above the Marquess.  The Duke is represented by the letter D.  Note there is a Duke of Hearts, Duke of Diamonds, and Duke of Clubs.















 The Marquess is a new playing card rank.  The Marquess is below a Duke but above an Earl.  The Marquess is represented by the letter M.   Here the Marquess of Spades is wearing the heraldic crown reserved for the English Marquess.   New Marquesses include the Marquess of Hearts, Marquess of Diamonds, and Marquess of Clubs.














 The Earl is ranked below a Marquess yet above a Viscount.  The Earl is represented by the letter L since E is already taken by the Emperor.  Here the Earl of Spades is wearing the crown that belongs to the Earls of England.  So there is now an Earl of Hearts, and Earl of Diamonds, and an Earl of Clubs.

Ranks of Nobility in other nations usually call this position the Count, which is above the 'Vice-Count' and below the Marquess.  Thus the matching English Equivalent to Count Dracula would be Earl Dracula.

And if you grew up in America it'd be Earl Chocula instead of Count Chocula.  Likewise the purple puppet Count would be the 'Counting Earl' on Sesame Street.  








 The Viscount is represented by the letter V.  Viscounts rank above the Barons yet below the Earls/Counts.  The Viscount of Spades is wearing the heraldic English Viscount crown. New cards include the Viscount of Hearts, Viscount of Diamonds, and Viscount of Clubs.














 

 The lowest normal rank of nobility is the Baron.  The Baron is below all the royal suits yet above the Jack.  Here the letter B represents the Baron.  We now have a Baron of Hearts, Baron of Diamonds, and Baron of Clubs. 

Due to the popularity of the Red Baron and Baron in fiction or Red Baron Pizza.  The Baron is basically the lowest level of nobility.  In America people often confuse a Baron with a high royal rank.   Yet it's better to be a Baron than a Knight or regular peasant folk.





 



These new playing cards with added ranks of Nobility are crowned with the standard English Heraldic Crowns.  But the Spades only use English items.  The Hearts expanded family shall be crowned with French Crowns.  The Diamonds expanded family will be crowned with Spanish Crowns, while the Clubs expanded family will be crowned with Austrian Crowns.  Thus you can learn a little something about the Crowns and titles of Nobility when playing cards.  And the next time you read about some Duke or see someone mention the Count and Baron in a movie you'll know where they are in the order of Nobility.

And when playing cards you really can 'Put up your Dukes.'

A Royal Banner for King Charles III

Will the UK ever welcome a King Charles III?    With the longevity of the Royal Family as it is now, certainly by 2033.  Although it may seem like a distant future, it'll be here sooner than that funky flash forward decade of the 1970s and most recently, Old Head Harry Potter films.  More than likely by then at current trends the US President in 2033 will probably be a 1980s Reagan Baby Love Child.  


In any case here is a proposed Royal Standard for King Charles the III that, finally, includes the heraldic essence of Wales.  Usually the three golden lions go for a double play.  This flag includes the kingdoms of England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. It'd be need'in a dragon on the flag.  Aye, dragons are the wee coolest thing!

Oprah Winfrey next to the Stanford University Flag - 2008

In 2008 Oprah was given the honor to address the graduates of Stanford University.  In it she relays some of her best advice and experiences.  Behind Oprah Winfrey you can see the flag of the United States and Stanford waving in the background. 

Stanford University has several official flags.  The flag behind Oprah is the University Wide triple redwood frond flag.  It is composed of three branches coloured red on a white disc surrounded by a black circle on a field of red.  The redwood frond is a common element to other Stanford Flags as found in the Stanford School of: Medicine, Law, Humanities and Sciences, Engineering, Earth and Sciences, Graduate School of Business, and Education.


Oprah is a rare voice of reason, inspiration, and education amongst a jungle of powerful obnoxious egos.  Originally from Mississippi, she is the proverbial rags to riches story.  But riches earned from a dedicated and unquenchable thirst for life and wish to serve others.  Oprah is willing to stretch her mind and push on the comfort zone, to boldly think and ask where no woman, or man for that matter, has thought before. Yet with all her success and fame, Oprah has kept her head on Earth.   Oprah paradoxically shines both as a superstar and in a humble warm friendly folksy light as Auntie O.





Photo Credits: https://commencement.stanford.edu/traditions/heraldry/university-flag

Oprah's Website: http://www.oprah.com/index.html

Eye of the Tiger - Vexilloids from the Video 1982

The Eye of the Tiger hit the airwaves in 1982 and was created by the band Survivor with a push from Silvester Stallone.  Vexilloid like items appear at the end of the video as a golden wavy background while the band plays.

Another hard to spot vexilloid is a banner advertising Tiffany's hind-quarters.  Tiffany's banner just happens to be the colour of a tiger which is yellow and black.
 
Note the song Eye of the Tiger came into existence due to selfish hoarding attitudes.  Silvester Stallone originally wanted another song to be played in Rocky III, but he was denied.  Mr. Stallone then requested a similarly themed song be made... and walla' we have Eye of the Tiger. Suffice it to say thanks to that rejection!  In the aftermath of that push back we got an even cooler more memorable song that has survived the decades.

Can you spot the Tiger in the background?

It proves the ancient adage that sometimes it's better to let go and work around a problem, and a better solution with extra benefits is just around the corner.  The path of rejection can lead to unexpected hidden treasures. 

Flags in the Film - Last of the Mohicans 1992

 July 4, 1757 the fates of the American Colonies were being dealt by the Empires that be, or so as the dominant narrative goes.  As if the colonists had no part in the destiny of North America, except for the lading at Jamestown and 'first' celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

 If the French won or at least maintained a smaller portion of North America?  Would the colonies ever have rebelled with the threat of a French Empire? 

In 1992 the best pre-Revolutionary Colonial American movie was made - Last of the Mochians starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madelyn Stowe.  This film illustrates the lives, struggles, conflicts of the pre-Revolutionary ancestors of Canada and the US.

This war set up the historical fireworks for July 4, 1776.  During this war the colonies were allied with Prussia for world dominance.  Prussian-British victory after this nearly last of "Native American and French-Canadian Wars" put the English on a path for total world domination.

Usually the war depicted in the film is called the 'last' French and Indian War, but it was not.  For the French would fight the United Kingdom one last time on the continent from 1778 until peace was resolved and the 13 colonies made independent.  Although France was expelled from the mainland of North America she retained a few tiny isles in coastal areas of North America notably - St. Pierre and Miquelon.


Thus France gained a modicum of justice when the British lost their first born in 1776.  The American Revolution was also the proverbial final act or grand finale of the "French and Indian Wars" as the battles of the American Revolution involved "France" and "Indians."


 British and regimental flags with markings can be seen in the film.  The film maker, Michael Mann, did his homework and it paid off. 




This film also showed in brilliant color and depth the role that aboriginal-Americans played.  Previously before the 1960s Native Americas were portrayed in tacky one dimensional cartoonish like fashion who needed to be taught good western values with great insult to their religion and way of life.

In this film the negative and positive ways of aboriginal Native and Old World Newcomer Americans are dealt with, in an more honest light.

Flags in Eternal Sunshine, of the spotless mind 2004

Imagine if you could erase unwanted memories?   Would you undergo the procedure?  Certainly such a kind of technology is on the horizon.  Many already pop happy pills to alter their mood and can not function normally without the aid of intoxicants due to social anxiety.

In 2004 Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet starred in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and erasing unwanted memories is the premise of the movie.  Carrey and Winslet star as star crossed lovers whose painful relationship, causes them to undergo the procedure.



Of key importance to this blog are several vexilloids that appear in the movie.  The most unique flag appears in the drawing of Clementine that Joel had did.  In it Clementine is a skeleton except for her head and she is holding a tattered sun flag of yellow and pink that has come to symbolize the radically intense love of Joel and Clementine.

More conventional flags also appear in the movie.  During the flea market scene a person is wearing a hat with a US flag on it and colourful sales pennants can be seen fluttering in the background.  Also notice that this is a shot of memory being erased so the people in the background are loosing their faces. Another vexilloid antenna can be seen on the remote control airplane controller - it has a long blue streamer along the end.

 This movie is more than just a love story.  It has the capacity to stir the mind and stimulate discussion of dreams, mind, body, love, anguish and purpose in the most subtle of ways.  It is a subdued science fiction movie, without the sci-fi feeling.  Persons who never experienced a broken romantic heart may have difficulty understanding this work of art as will people who do not examine their dreams or refuse to trespass against the norms of modern society.





PS,
And a Sappy Summer Solstice to all my Northern Hemispherians, enjoy all the free sunshine while it's still free.

Flags in the Film 12 Monkeys - 1995

 The US flag makes a brief cameo in the seminal 1990s time travel movie 12 Monkeys. The film is a layered upon layered time drama that gets better with each viewing since it is designed with details that can only be noticed after secondary views.

 Red flags also appear at the 'airport-convention' center.  A group of tourists from East Asia are passing by when our hero and heroine meet each other.  Unlike most time travel movies, this one is where the traveler comes from the future to the present moment of 1995, Philadelphia.




 A story of love, fate, science and control it makes new connections that time travel has its hazards on the mind and shows the nature of man to seize freedom when given a chance to break free rather than return to doldrums of tyrannical corporate control. 

US Flag for all 74 American Sub-Federal Districts: 50 States, 16 non-states, 8 undecided entities

Officially speaking there are 50 States.  But there are additional sub-federal districts that are not represented on the official flag.  The most popular sub-federal non-state of the USA is the District of Columbia, Washington.  However there are more, 15 more to be exact.  Thus this flag gives total representation to all official 66 sub-federal districts.  

The badge is a shield of arms that has sixteen stars, to represent the sixteen sub-federal non-state districts.  The stars only have four points since they do not represent fully fledged states.  The official sixteen sub-federal districts are:

51 - Washington, DC
52 - Puerto Rico
53 - Guam
54 - American Samoa
55 - US Virgin Islands
56 - N. Mariana Is.
57 - Wake Island
58 - Palmyra Atoll
59 - Midway Atoll
60 - Navassa
61 - Johnston Island
62 - Baker Island
63 - Howland Island
64 - Swains Island
65 - Jarvis Island
66 - Kingman Reef



Additionally there is a white diagonal that has eight smaller red four pointed stars that represent the undecided parts of the world with an unresolved US Claim or are in a Compact of Free Association with the United States.  The C.F.A is up for congressional renewal, if it is not renewed then this flag will have to be altered minus a few red stars on the bend.


67 - Serranilla Bank 
68 - Bajo Nuevo Bank
69 - Ducie Island
70 - Antarctica
71 - Alto Velo Island 

C.F.A. - Regions

72 - Palau
73 - Micronesia
74 - Marshall Islands


Thus this US flag has noted symbolism that represents all 74 sub-federal areas of the USA: the 13 original colonies, via the 13 red and white stripes; 50 official states, via the 50 five pointed stars in the canton; 16 sub-federal non-states, via the four pointed white stars; and finally 8 four pointed red stars in the white bend of the badge that represent the five undecided land claims and three nations that are under the C.F.A.

A Guantanamo Bay Flag - The Official Seal on a White Background Flag

 

Guantanamo Bay is a twilight part of the United States.  The official seal is aquageotic since a brown map of Cuba is visible in the center.  Two palm trees can be seen sprouting out of the head. CUBA is written in gold capital letters, likewise under the island it is written GAUNTANAMO BAY with three waves underneath.  Around the map is chain link and then it is states that is indeed a US Naval Base and redundantly one more time that it is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

 If you could imagine the shape of Cuba being a giant blue whale then in between the lead-hand flipper and head is where Guantanamo Bay is located.  The trees sprouting out also look like water sprouts coming from the whale. 

Flag for the possible Future 13 States of the USA - State #53 to #69

Currently the United States in composed of 50 States, but in the near future more states can be added.  If technological progress continues, it is possible the 'unorganized parts of the USA' could become more habitable.  Perhaps underground Sealabs-Seacities will become the wave of the future?

This flag is for the possible 'Future 13 States' of the USA; theoretical states #53 unto #69.  The flag has a blue canton with 13 stars. In totality there are 66 official sub-federal entities in the United States. 

Official 16 'Bonus USA Territories' are:

51. The District of Columbia, Washington
52. Puerto Rico
53. Guam
54. US Virgin Islands 
55. Northern Mariana Islands
56. American Samoa
57. Wake Island
58. Midway Island
59. Palmyra Atoll
60. Navassa
61. Johnston Atoll
62. Baker Island
63. Howland Island
64. Jarvis Island
65. Kingman Reef
66. Swains Island

Thirteen States Flag Map Chart

This 13 States Flag Map Chart illustrates which states have claims to each of the 13 stars and stripes edition flag.  The Original Betsy Ross Flag has a certain charm, but it only represents the original 13, so in honor of each group of additional 13 states, they get their own distinct Betsy Ross Type of Flag.

Flag for Americans born in an unknown location

A flag for Americans who don't know where they were born.  This flag will be used most likely by orphans and other Americans who are distant with their parents.  It may seem odd, but there are several thousand Americans who don't know where they were born, or at least the documents of the birth were lost.

The flag for Americans of an unknown origin has 13 stripes - seven white and six red.  The canton is white with thirteen red stars.

Famous Americans who did not know where they were born:
James Michener
Peter Francisco - The Virginia Giant
Tecumseh
Andrew Jackson
Sacagawea 
Little Orphan Annie

ENCORE ENCORE ENCORE

The flag of Oceania and Australia Continent

This flag uses the colours navy blue, sea green, and white.  The canton is sea green and has a navy blue star.  The seven pointed star represents the seven continents. 

 This flag is for Australia and land masses within its radius.  Thus this flag is for the area on New Zealand, Howland and Baker Islands, Guam since they are closest to the continent of Australia.  This included the western half of Indonesia that is also closer to Australia than to Asia.

Flag for the Continent of Asia

The flag of Asia uses the colours yellow, black, white, and yellow.  The canton is black with a yellow star. The seven points on the star are a reminder that there are seven continents.

This flag can be flown anywhere in Asia from Jerusalem, Tokyo, Calcutta, Mecca, or Kabul.  It is also to be flown on islands that are closest to Asia such as Cyprus, the Isle of Rhodes, and the western isles of Alaska. 

Flag of the European Continent

The flag for all of Europe - East, West, South, and North uses the colours white, black, and yellow.  The canton is black with a white star.

It can be flown anywhere on Europe and with the Islands that are closest to Europe including the Scotland, Ireland, and Crete. 

Flag of the Africa Continent

The continental flag of Africa uses the colour black, yellow, and white.  The canton is yellow with a black star. The star is seven pointed to echo the fact that there are seven continents. 

This flag can be flown anywhere on Africa and any island that is closest to Africa such as Malta and Socotra.

Flag for the Continent of South America

The flag of South America uses the colours red, yellow, green and blue.  The canton is blue with a green star. Seven points of the star are a reminder of the seven continents.

This flag is for the entire continent of South America and lands within its radius.  Thus Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Barbados have rights to fly this flag since they are closest to South America.

Flag for the North America Continent

The flag of North America uses the colours black, white, and red.  The canton is black with a red star. The seven pointed star represents the seven continents.  The star has seven points since there are seven continents.

This flag is for the entire of Continent of North America including Panama, Mexico and Canada and islands that are closest to North America. 

Flag Chart for Americans born Abroad

Not all Americans were born in the USA.  So in honor of those Americans born in foreign lands, here are flags to represent which continent they were born.  Note that these flags are for American Citizens born in a foreign nation, Americans who later became naturalized, and immigrants on their way to becoming fully fledged American Citizens.

These flags match in rank to the state flags of regular born in the USA Americans.  All Americans no matter where they came from are a part of the official American flag, but these are sub-federal marker flags.

Also note these flags follow the geographic distance rule.  Thus Cuba born Americans should use the Born in North America Flag while Trinidad born Americans should use the South American Born Flag.  But Puerto Rico born Americans should use the Puerto Rico Flag.  But if Puerto Rico declares independence from the US, only then should Puerto Rico born Americans use the South American born flag, since Puerto Rico is closest to South America.

Flag for Canadian Born US Citizens

 

This flag is for Americans who were born in Canada or Americans who were once Canadian and became official US Citizens.  Canadian-born Americans like Ted Cruz should also use the North American Born Flag, which outranks this flag.

The two white stripes are a reminder of the two nations formed in 1776, for two nations were created.  Likewise the echo and honor for the Canadian tribar is preserved to some extent. 

Why does Canada get its own flag?  Well Canadians have a unique bond with the United States unlike any other nation.  The US and Canada are fraternal nations of sorts in the same manner Peru and Columbia are fraternal nations.

Canadian born, later to become American Citizens:
Jim Carrey
Pam Anderson
Michael J. Fox
William Shatner
Alex Trebek
Peter Jennings 
Tommy Chong

Flag for US Citizens born in North America (Including Canada)

A flag for Americans born in North America but not born in the United States.   Thus US Citizens born in Canada, Mexico, The Bahamas, Belize, The Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Eastern Kiribati, St. Pierre and Miquelon, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Greenland, Central America and the southern portion of Panama attached to Costa Rica.

Note, this flag is not for Americans born in the former US Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, or US Virgin Islands since they already have flags.  

List of North America Born Americans:
Carlos Santana
Heavy D
Paul Rodriguez
Shaggy
Guillermo del Toro
Gloria Estefan
Andy Garcia
Ricardo Montalban - Khan from Star Trek II
Jose Conseco and many others in MLB
Jim Carey
Peter Jennings
Michael J. Fox
Alex Trabek

Flag for US Citizens born in South America

The flag for Americans born in South America has a white field and 13 red stars.  It is based upon the Easton Flag and has thirteen blue and red stripes in the canton. Since South America is "under" the US and mostly below the equator the stars and stripes are reversed with a striped canton and star field.

Americans who were born in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, The Netherlands Antilles, Guadeloupe, St. Kitts and Nevis, Martinique, Barbados, Dominica, Falkland Islands, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Paraguay, and the northern portion of Panama attached to Colombia.  

List of South America born Americans:
Mike Judge: creator of Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill- Born in Equator-Land, note that Equator-Land is a direct English translation of Ecuador (which means equator)
Rodrigo Santoro 
Jordana Brewster 
Horatio Sanz
Morena Baccarin
David Neeleman - JET BLUE Founder
John Leguizamo 
Alexander Hamilton - The man on the $10.00 bill, note that Nevis is closer to the South American Continent than the North American Continent.  So Mr. Hamilton is a part of the South American-American Heritage Community.

Flag for US Citizens born in Australia and Pacific Oceania

This flag may look like the Easton Flag, but note the Easton flag has stars with eight points and a 13th star in the center.  In this case, the Australian or Pacific Oceania born Americans flag use five pointed stars in a circle.

Since most of the countries in Pacific Oceania are down under, the stars and stripes have been reversed - such that the stripes are in the canton and the stars are in the field.

FAMOUS AMERICANS BORN UNDER THIS FLAG:
Rupert Murdoch Fox News Network Pharaoh
Rick Springfield - Singer of Jessie's Girl
Heath Ledger - Legendary Joker from Batman

Flag for US Citizens Born in Africa

The flag for Americans born in Africa has a red field and Betsy Ross Canton and one white stripe.  It can be flown by Americans who were legally born in Africa or later in life became US Citizens.

The red field is taken from the association of red with the mythical link of the South with the Phoenix.

Africa born Americans:
Jean Grae
Dave Matthews

Flag for US Citizens born in Europe

The flag for European Born Americans has a white filed and Betsy Ross Canton and one red stripe.  The white filed represents the ancient association of the mythical White Tiger of the West. This flag is for Americans born abroad in Europe or who later became US Citizens later in life.

The area of land also includes the European regions of Turkey, Kazakhstan, Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Water is used as they key dividing lines separating continents, rather than land-mountains, thus the division between Europe and Asia is based upon four rivers: the Ural River and Mass-to-Ob River for the East-to-West Axis ; and the Kura River and Rioni River with the North-to-South between the two continents.  Water is the key element that creates a natural separation between islands and areas of land.

Thus Americans born in Georgia north of the Rioni River can use this flag.  Likewise Americans born in Russia west of the Ural and Mass-Ob River to the western wing of the Mass River can use this flag.

The majority of Americans born under this flag are US Military Brats born on US bases all across Western Europe with a heavy concentration in the western area of Germany.

Famous Europe Born Americans:
Bruce Willis
Albert Einstein
LeVar Burton
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Flag for US Citizens born in Asia

The Asian Born American Flag has a blue field and red canton with 13 white stars and a vertical white stripe.  The blue field represents the ancient Old World paradigm of the East being associated with the azure color of via the mythical Azure Dragon of the East.

This includes US citizens from the nations of Western Asia also known as Middle Eastern Asia or by a few as Mediterranean Asia-which includes Israel, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait, Iran, UAE, Yemen, Cyprus, and Lebanon.  It also includes East Asia: Japan, China, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan, Singapore, Brunei, South Korea and North Korea.  Not to forget Central Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. And finally the Asian regions of Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey.

Famous Asian Born US Citizens:
Keanu Reeves
M. Night Shyamalan
Ang Lee

13 States Group Flag Chart

Since the Original 13 Colonies had their own flag, it's only fair that each additional 13 states get their own Betsy Ross type of flag.  Here are three more flags for the other states that were not a part of the Original 13.   These flags have the distinction as the New, Newer and Newest 13 states.

A US Flag for the Last Group of 13 States from the Dakotas until Hawaii - USA PART IV (1889-NOW) THE NEWEST 13

This flag is based upon the Legendary Betsy Ross Flag.  Although Betsy's claims may be less than original, Ms. Ross was a part of the first group of pre-official flag manufactures to make flags from that era, before June 14, 1777, and help the Revolutionary Cause.

Although only 13 states should have the right to fly this flag either North Dakota or South Dakota can fly this flag since the order of their entry is unknown.  When President Benjamin Harrison signed them into official status November 2, 1889 as virtual twins, he purposely singed them without knowing who'd be the 39th or 40th state.  So either Dakota can fly this flag.  Thus all the states to enter the union after the Dakota Twins can fly this flag: Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii.  There is still room for three more states to fly this flag so unofficially it can be flown on Washington DC, Puerto Rico and Guam.

The flag has a red canton with thirteen white stars and four red stripes, three blue stripes, and six white stripes. The blue stripes denote states with a coastline: Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii.  The red stripes denote states on the inside of America that do not have an international border: Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. 

A US Flag for the Third Next 13 Group of States from Florida to the Dakotas - USA PART III (1845-1889) THE NEWER 13

This flag is based upon the Legendary Betsy Ross Flag.  Although Betsy's claims may be less than original, Ms. Ross was definitely a part of the first of American Women to sew flags from that era and help the Revolutionary Cause.

This flag is for the next 13 states that joined the union after the first two groups of 13.  Thus the states of Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wiscosin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virgina, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and either Dakota can fly this flag. 

Although only 13 states should have the right to fly this flag either North Dakota or South Dakota can fly this flag since the order of their entry is unknown.  When President Benjamin Harrison signed them in on November 2, 1889 he purposely singed them in without know'n who'd be the 39th or 40th state.  So both Dakotas can fly this flag.

This flag has a white canton with 13 blue stars to represent the third group of 13 states, the twenty-sixth state unto the thirty-ninth state, and four white stripes, three red stripes, and six blue stripes.

The six blue stripes denote states that have a coast line: Florida, Texas, California, Oregon, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The three red stripes denote the three states born during the Civil War-Secession: Kansas, West Virginia, and Nevada. The four white stripes denote the other northern states: Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, and either Dakota.

A US Flag for the Next 13 Group of States from Vermont to Michigan - USA PART II (1791-1844) THE NEW 13

Since the original 13 Colonies have their own flag, it is high time that other states get their own flag.  In this case the next group of 13 states have a right to fly this flag.  The states that entered the union from Vermont to Michigan.  Thus this flag represent the Next 13: Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri, and Arkansas have the right to fly this flag anytime anywhere.  It is also a temporal flag representing the time frame from January 1, 1791 until December 31, 1844. 

This flag is based upon the Legendary Betsy Ross Flag.  It has 8 red stripes and 7 blue stripes.  The canton is blue and there are 13 stars for the subsequent states that joined the union from Vermont in 1791 unto Michigan an 1836.

 The seven red stripes denote the southern states that were born in bondage while the blue stripes denote the northern states that were born free. 

Flash Flag from Flash Rebirth as illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver 2011

A flag on top of the dome of the Flash Museum features a flash flag.  It has red background with the Flash insignia in the upper right hand corner.  Red flags are usually not so American Patriotic, but only if it has the Flash icon upon it, it seems rightfully to chant USA, USA, USA!  Besides the Flash Flag, the livery colours of the Flash can be seen on streamer pennants of red and yellow.

This scene was taken from Flash Rebirth 2009 and wonderfully illustrated with exquisite detail by Ethan Van Sciver and a nacho supreme story written by Geoff Johns about the amazing return of the Heroic Flash - Barry Allen - who 'died' in 1985.

Glendale Music School Banner - The Jackson Five and Carol Burnett

A banner from the Glendale Music School can be seen in a short comedy sketch featuring Carol Brunett and the Jackson 5. It has a white background and funky Fleur-De-Li's like symbol.  In this video the classroom banners have been reversed so they face the camera the correct way, so they can be read.

During age of television or one way media, things were different but not so different.  Classroom shenanigans and smart mouthing has been around since before TV and radio, but back then their were harsh consequences for being a showboat.

But when teachers are able to turn up and expand previously unreachable minds, the Earth will certainly feel like it's moving. 


LINK TO FRANKIE LANE OR DAVID CASSIDY, THE JACKSON 5, & CAROL BRUNETT