Some articles on national, flag:
... Instead of October 3, the National Reunification should be celebrated on the first Sunday of October ... working hours would be seen as a provocation and devaluing the national holiday ... October, which happens to have been the national day of East Germany this date would thus have been seen as commemorating the division of Germany rather than the reunification ...
... These national bodies are the rule-making body for that nation ... For example the British Orienteering Federation is the national governing body for the United Kingdom ...
... Romantic poet France Prešeren, considered the national poet of Slovenes ... On 27 September 1989, it became the national anthem of Slovenia ... of a united Slovenia, which the March Revolution in 1848 elevated into a national political programme ...
... Flag Date Use Within country Description 1918- Flag of Andalusia Spain The flag of Andalusia consists of a horizontal tricolour (green-white-green) with the Andalusian. 1947- Flag of the Aosta Valley Italy The flag of the Aosta Valley consists of two vertical stripes (the left black the right red) with the arms of the Aosta Valley in the. 1982- Flag of Aragon Spain 1982- Flag of Asturias Spain The flag of Asturias is light blue with the Victory Cross slightly left of the centre ...
... division has become a four brigade combat team division with National Guardsmen from throughout the Pacific/Western United States and Oceania ... After seeing service in World War I as a depot division, it was reorganised as the National Guard division for California, Nevada, and Utah, before seeing service in ... The division was redesignated the National Guard unit for California alone, and it continues to serve domestically as such, mostly in homeland security operations ...
Famous quotes containing the words flag, official and/or national:
“Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day’s demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)