The Asp Flag, Amino Acid Aspartic Acid

The flag for the Asp uses the colours white, green, and red.  The field is red since oxygen is the dominant non-carbon element associated with Aspartic Acid. 

If you ever played with a chemistry model set, Oxygen is usually coloured red, as it is in most diagrams.  The reason being is that oxygen rich blood carries a lot of oxygen.  Thus red has been chosen to represent oxygen.  There are two white dots that represents the two carbons in the R-Group.

Along the hoist are two vertical stripes of white and green, which are coded to the letter D.  The single letter abbreviation for Apartic Acid is D, while the three letter abbreviation is Asp.  D is represented by the colour green since green and D are the fourth value of their respective orders.  Green is the 4th colour of the rainbow and D is the fourth letter in the alphabet.  The white stripe is a zero indicator to show that this is indeed letter, since letters in colour metrics are represented by two colours, which read as 04.

The Asp was discovered in 1827 by a wonder duo of two French scientists: Auguste-Arthur Plisson and Étienne Ossian Henry.
 

Amino Acid Cystine Flag: Cys or C

The flag for Cystine uses the colours white, yellow, mustard-yellow, and black.  The field of mustard yellow indicates that this amino acid contains sulfur.  The single black dot indicates there is only one carbon in its functional group.  Along the hoist is a white and yellow vertical stripe.

This stripes are coded to the letter C according to colour metrics.  Reason being, yellow is the third colour of the rainbow and C is the third letter of the alphabet.  Also C is the short, short hand notation for Cystine.  The three letter abbreviation is Cys. 

You can blame this amino acid for the rotten egg smell and the stinky smell at perms.  When hair is being permed, the process breaks down the sulfur in ones hair.  The result is that poopey smell that you may have noticed at the hair dresser.  Sure, they try to mask it with sweet perfumes, but you can't hide that eggy smell when these amino acids are broken down.

This amino acid was discovered in 1810 by William Hyde Wollaston.  Wollaston also discovered Palladium and Rhodium.

Amino Acid Flag for Alanine: Ala or A

The Alanine flag uses the colours white, red, and black.  The field is black and has a single white dot that indicates the number of carbon atoms in the R-Group.  It is a fairly simple amino acid.  You could even call it the Methane of Amino Acids.  Along the hoist are two vertical stripes that are coded in colour metrics to the letter A, which is the one letter ID of Alanine.  Alanine's three letter abbreviation is Ala.

Alanine was first discovered in Germany, when California became a state in 1850, by Adoph Strecker.  Coincidentally the colours of Alanine match the flag of German Empire, which came into official existence the same year Adolph died in 1871.

An easy way to understand Amino Acids is think of them as Fairy Fibers.  There are 22 fundamental Fairy Fibers encoded by RNA.  When you assemble these Fibers in a certain order they create little magical Fairies inside living cells, that do work-magic.  So in this analogy, Fairies are Proteins.  And what makes up Proteins?  Amino Acids, whoops, I meant to say Fairy Fibers.  Basically the Proteins in your bodies are like little Fairies.

So what do these molecular fairies do?  They can smash chemical bonds, they can send signals, they rearrange chemical bonds, some help transport things, some wear more than one hat.  There are some molecular fairies that work in a team.  Bottom line is, there are nearly an infinite variety of fairies.  However, all fairies across the known universe are made up of 22 fundamental Fairy Fibers, scientifically known as Amino Acids.  Also note fairies don't work, it is known as play and dance in their view of the universe.  So right now there are about 12,234 quad-trillion billion fairy parties going on across all your cells.   Their electrical-alchemical dance is what makes life possible.

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Here is one of the more popular Protein Fairy Tracks...

Census Designated Place Flag

Municipalities are the fundamental components of the nation.  In a way they are the cells of the United States of America.  Everyone knows that there are 50 states and few extra territories of the US.  Likewise most know that Counties are the next level down, cept' for Louisiana which has Parishes.  All the states have flags and nearly all Counties have flags.  Further down, many municipalities have flags too, but it gets really messy on what constitutes a municipality.  A municipality can be a city, town, borough, township, reservation, and many more.  And not all municipalities are equal.

Bottom line is that municipalities are you lowest form of government.  It would be a challenge to get a meeting with the governor of the state, but meeting up with you 'lowest' ranking political officer at the municipality is a relatively easy thing to do, unless you live in a big city...then you may have a chance, at meeting your 'ward leader' or 'neighborhood-block leader.'  Most people are often blissfully unaware of their local leaders at the municipal level, let alone the county and state levels. Schools always teach the federal system over and over.  Local social studies info is like top secret knowledge or classified.  Imagine County and Municipal Government Classes?  Or even just spending one month on it?  Note that most schools get much of their funding from the municipality.  Dosen't make sense that the Municipality have say in the learning process?

All municipalities are required to have a seal, and many have flags.  However, some people live in 'small towns' that have no political office.  They are known as unincorporated communities and are basically a fiefdom to another municipality.  Sometimes the town is larger and more famous than its official municipality, as is the case with King of Prussia in Pennsylvania.  King of Prussia has no official government for itself.  King of Prussia in Montgomery County is

a part of the municipality of Upper Merion.  Upper Merion also commands Gulph Mills, Swedesburg, Swedeland, and Wayne.  And going back to the cell analogy, King of Prussia and Gulph Mills are the would be organelles within the cell of Upper Merion municipality.

So how many cells make up Pennsylvania?  Right now there are 2,560 municipalities, thus Pennsylvania has 2,560 cells.  Note, that like cells, municipalities come, go, dissolve, or combine.  So with in the next 10
years, the number of cellular municipalities is likely to change.  And like cells, some municipalities are healthier than others, via crime, income, comfort, pollution, and education level.  Just for comparison, at the moment Texas is composed of 1,212 cellular municipalities. 

But for places with names and no namesake official nucleus, we have the Census Designated Place flag.  The flag is a place holder flag for towns without independent municipal governments of their own namesake.  To clarify, a place like King of Prussia has a municipal government, but the name of municipality is Upper Merion and includes other places.   In a way King of Prussia is in the within the 'sub-county' 'area' of Upper Merion.  Perhaps in a few years King of Prussia will break away and separate from Upper Merion, taking all the local tax money earned?  Becoming it's own municipality.

The basic formula for a Census Designated Place has a field of 13 stripes, alternating blue and white; white stripes are dominant.  The abundance of blue indicates the spirit of a blueprint, since if an unincorporated community gains municipal independence the flag will certainly change.  In the canton is a seal with the upper portion reading 'US Census Designated Place.'  This indicates that the Federal Government recognizes this place as a virtual-potential municipality, a community with its own unique spirit. 

There are several Census Designated Places that are larger than your average city.   To the left if the generic blueprint for these communities that have no mayor or government of their very own, yet have their own organic and independent local govenment distinct from the attached municipality of a different name.

The Fun American Manganese Flag

What do Manganese and Minnesota have in common?  Both use the letters 'M' and 'N' in their abbreviations.  Thus, a fun Manganese flag is possible.  So if you are from Minnesota there is no excuse that you should know this element.  Or if you were born in 1925, 2025 or on the 25th then you should know this element. 

The Fun American Manganese flag is based upon the flag of Mn.  The switch up is that the name Manganese replaces Minnesota in the ring.  The inner ring is totally different, yet conserves the colours.  There are two atoms that echo of the native and newcomer. Finally the number 25 is at the 12:00 position.  25 is the atomic number that indicates the number of protons, which give this atom its particular personalities.
 

Another Fun Indium Flag

Just before Tin and two steps after Silver is the lesser element of Indium.  This is the second fun flag of Indium that is based upon the state Indiana instead of India.   Instead of a torch a Bunsen Burner is at the center.  Likewise it is no longer a starburst of 19 stars, rather it is an atomic burst of 19 atoms.  It is good to remember that star energy is based upon atoms being created and destroyed.  You can see the atomic number of Indium at the base which is 49.  And just to the left is the two letter abbreviation that matches with Indiana.  They both have an 'I' followed by an 'N.'  Of course Indiana's letters are both capitalized.


To the left is the official flag for the state of Indiana.  Notice the similarity and differences.  India, Indiana, Indian, Old World Indian, New World Indian...it gets very confusing.  Add in Indiana Jones and it is all good. 

Norristown Borough Seal, Montgomery County Pennsylvania

The basic political building block of the United States is the municipality.  Unfortunately this area of social studies is rarely studied in classrooms across the US.  Most Americans are aware of the state, nation, and county.  But when it comes to sub-county division it gets really messy.  It does not help that some towns have to divisions like Doylestown Borough vs Doylestown Township, which have different local governments.  Also Doylestown Township has other non-incorporated cities within it.  All confusion aside, the smallest government in Pennsylvania is either a Township or a Borough.  But there are a few exceptions.

The County Seat of Montgomery County Pennsylvania in Norristown Borough.  At the County Seat you'll see the deep red Montgomery County Flag.  But at the Norristown Borough Hall you see a blue flag with a beehive upon it.  Not all municipalities fly a flag, but most simply put the seal on a background.  Which is good, since the quaintness keeps it low key.  A bold abstract like flag would be overkill.

On the flag of Norristown you can see grass, a wooden table, three bees, and the bee hive.  In latin you can see municipality motto, "Fervet Opus."  This can be directly translated as 'The Work Glows.'  According to one website, that motto comes from Virgil's Georgics IV.169, where he is describing the art of bee-keeping: Fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella. "The work glows, and the honeys smell of fragrant Thyme." Interesting because Virgil is deliberately conflating the effort to gather the honey--opus--with the product of that work--the mella.(http://latindiscussion.com/forum/latin/school-mottoes.1403/)  Further out, you can see the a standard words in a circle "The Municipality of Norristown" on the upper arc and on the lower arc "Incorp. Mar. 31, 1812.  Note the beehive of Norristown is much older than the hive of Utah.  In 1812 Utah was still a part of Spain, yet to be independent of Mexico.



Here is a close of the two flags flying at Norristown Borough Hall.  Note that the beehive is black and white, but the words on the outer seal are blue.   One sub-county flag is flying by itself, while the other is flying next to the US and Pennsylvania state flag.


https://www.norristown.org/