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SilkyP posted:I really like my states flag (ohio)  http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/10/16/radio-host-bob-grant-asserted-that-obama-create/145712
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cheerfullydrab posted:You're talking about the OBAMA flag?? O bama H e I s O verlord
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Someone mentioned red bear flags earlier, and a google away I ended up on a site of gay bear flags. Totally innocently! I like this one, the fur colored rainbow:  And the description on this is great, "Tierced per bend sinister: first quarter azure; second quarter tierced per bend sinister of argent, sable and bruin; third quarter vert, over the azure and argent a footprint dexter in pale or."  Didn't have enough? Here's a couple more:  
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This thread got me searching for the coat of arms of my family. Welcome to the Fahey crest: It's someone shoving a sword into the head of a dragon. Pretty bad-rear end!
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Snowy posted:Someone mentioned red bear flags earlier, and a google away I ended up on a site of gay bear flags. Totally innocently! I'm really surprised there isn't one based on California's there. Anyway, I don't have a family coat of arms (I got a city name and its arms instead), but here's the arms of my most prominent ancestral family: 
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Kopijeger posted:No it doesn't. The idea that the name derives from "Bär" is folk etymology. The most likely origin of the name is Polabian "Berl" or "Birl", which means "marsh". Then again, a vague and punny resemblance is usually enough for heraldry (ref. the bows and lions of the Bowes-Lyon family).
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Computer viking posted:Then again, a vague and punny resemblance is usually enough for heraldry (ref. the bows and lions of the Bowes-Lyon family). Or Leon (in Spain) being named after the latin legio (legion) because it was founded by Roman legionaires.  It's coat of arms would be so much cooler if it featured a legionnaire. Two of my favorite coat of arms were the offical CoA of two now extinct Swedish municipalties. They were merged in the 1970's with other smaller municipalities, and sadly adopted the larger municpis coat of arms. Högsjö, which had one of my favorite animals on it, and the stance and expression of the bird says it all.  Bjärtå, because ants.  Falukorv has a new favorite as of 15:41 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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 This flag is wonderful to me, due to the fact that the background is appropriately majestic for the foreground.
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Falukorv posted:Or Leon (in Spain) being named after the latin legio (legion) because it was founded by Roman legionaires. That doesn't seem right to me. The Latin for 'lion' is 'leo' and IIRC in turn derived from Greek, while the Latin for 'legion' is 'legio'. The two words don't have a common origin.
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the jizz taxi posted:That doesn't seem right to me. The Latin for 'lion' is 'leo' and IIRC in turn derived from Greek, while the Latin for 'legion' is 'legio'. The two words don't have a common origin. Well exactly. After a millennium or two, place names can drift quite far - and if it sounds like "lion" now that's more than good enough for whoever wanted a coat of arms for the place.
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:This thread got me searching for the coat of arms of my family. Welcome to the Fahey crest: Pretty sure that's a boar.
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American civil flags tend to be somewhat disappointing in general, but happily it turns out that every Roman Catholic diocese gets its own coat of arms, including American ones. Just compare the civil flags and Roman Catholic coats of arms, and weep that we all don't get to enjoy Catholic designs. Dubuque, Iowa:   Cleveland, Ohio:   Milaukee, Wisconsin:  
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Houston, Texas:  I didn't know about the coats of arms for Catholic diocese in the US, but that's pretty neat. Houston's is actually kind of close.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Pretty sure that's a boar. I thought so too originally, but then I found other variants:   But then there's another variant which resembles a boar:  But for now I'm going to pretend my ancestors were dragon slayers and not a bunch of boar poachers...
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Farecoal posted:Orange Netherlands flag is better: Here's a variant of that from the 80 years war:  The current flag with the red stripe is very difficult to distinguish from that of nearby Luxembourg, as illustrated by this poorly thought out commemorative national friendship pin made by the two nations:  Fun fact: The dye which was used for the orange in 17th Dutch flags was unstable, and after a period of exposure to sunlight faded to red. At some point it became too annoying to keep redying them and they just said gently caress it and left it red. With advances in dying technology it wouldn't be a problem to change it back to orange now if not for fascists embracing the orange-striped flag during WWII, and that flag now being associated with far-right nationalism. This causes controversy when representatives of the most far-right party of modern times have it hanging in their window:  Still, on national holidays an orange bit is tacked on:  Former Dutch colonies still often feature the color in their flags. Flag of the Orange Free State (1857 - 1902):  Flag of South Africa (1928-1994):  Flag of New Netherland (1925 - 1664/1673, now New York):  Flag of Albany, New York:  Current flag of New York City (Changed in 1977 from showing 1664 to 1625 to reflect the granting of city rights instead of the conquering of the city by the English):  And hence the colors of the New York Knicks (who also happen to be named after Diederich Knickerbocker, a fictional Dutch historian invented by Washington Irving to narrate A History of New York, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip van Winkle):  Speaking of Dutch flags, I've always liked the flag of Amsterdam:  No one really knows why it's like that. Maybe it's the crest of an important 12th century family. Maybe it was a medieval totem with three x's protecting against wind, water, and plague. Maybe it just looks cool. twoday has a new favorite as of 02:47 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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I've noticed that people who don't speak Dutch are really bad at coming up with Dutch names that aren't (pseudo-)German.
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Dutch people always get annoyed because they think Knickerbocker is a made up non-Dutch name, but Irving based it on the Knickerbocker family which lived in upstate New York, descended from Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker who was born in what is now the Dutch province of Overijssel
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Well I guess that makes sense, the eastern part of the Netherlands is basically pseudo-Germany anyway. I really dislike the garish orange that the Dutch fly on national holidays, it's a hideous color, but the toned-down orange on the old flag looks alright. They should just reintroduce it already, instead of having red-white-blue flag #159.
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Yeah, red-white-blue should be reserved for evil empires and Norway.
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The funny thing is, the whole reason the Dutch embraced the color so much was to show support for the Prince of Orange, who was descended from the lords of the Principality of Orange in southern France, who, despite the name of their land had no particular association with the color (as can be seen in their coat of arms):
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Phlegmish posted:I've noticed that people who don't speak Dutch are really bad at coming up with Dutch names that aren't (pseudo-)German. But Dutch is pseudo-German 
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made of bees posted:Yeah, red-white-blue should be reserved for evil empires and Norway. Luxembourg weeps.
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Ofaloaf posted:American civil flags tend to be somewhat disappointing in general, but happily it turns out that every Roman Catholic diocese gets its own coat of arms, including American ones. Just compare the civil flags and Roman Catholic coats of arms, and weep that we all don't get to enjoy Catholic designs. Those are really cool. Some of them don't seem to have that much thought behind them, but some are pretty recognizable in interesting ways...     Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Detroit, New Orleans
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As people are posting their family coat of arms I might as well post mine. There are some variety like the 3 silver crescents in the black stripe but it's mostly the same. Also this my county flag: 
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DarkCrawler posted:Those are really cool. Some of them don't seem to have that much thought behind them, but some are pretty recognizable in interesting ways..  for the Diocese of Lansing. Get it? Two lances lancing a cross.
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twoday posted:
Is this in any way connected to the fact that (in the 60's/70's UK at least) porn films were triple x rated because all the good filth came from Holland? I'm completely speculating here and have done no research into the subject whatsoever, honest.
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Supeerme posted:As people are posting their family coat of arms I might as well post mine. Are you black? Or from corsica? and if not, do you know why there are black people on your family crest?
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ekuNNN posted:Are you black? Or from corsica? and if not, do you know why there are black people on your family crest? They're black moors, geddit?
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There's a black dude on Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's coat of arms, too. Black dudes and bears. I'll never get Europe's obsession with the two.
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I thought it was supposed to be a severed head, and symbolized that you had an ancestor who killed a bunch of muslims.
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Grew up here and the flags are about the only redeeming quality.  Also that Provo flag is amazing because there's no way it wasn't made in PowerPoint.
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For anyone who played Erepublik, I was a member of Phoenix a few years back; I kind of miss the wallpaper I used to be able to find, but their logo was always nice. I think this counts as something I can post. 
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 Kingdom of the Two Sicilies  The Central African Empire. I can't help but like both.
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carry on then posted:Grew up here and the flags are about the only redeeming quality. I was thinking it was made on Word 2003 (because I actually remember doing stuff like that when I was first taught Microsoft Word in school). Penny Paper has a new favorite as of 07:05 on Dec 15, 2013 |
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DarkCrawler posted:Those are really cool. Some of them don't seem to have that much thought behind them, but some are pretty recognizable in interesting ways...  Boise's. An embattled line across a tree. Embattled means a city or town. Because it's the City of Trees.  I'd still rather have it on my stuff than any other piece of vexillography from the state, and I'm not even Catholic.
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Gay Australia?
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The original version of the flag had 8 stripes.  Can't say which I like better.
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Snowy posted:And the description on this is great, "Tierced per bend sinister: first quarter azure; second quarter tierced per bend sinister of argent, sable and bruin; third quarter vert, over the azure and argent a footprint dexter in pale or." This is fairly standard heraldic language. Each coat of arms/flags/heraldic device has a "blazon" that, in theory, unambiguously describes it. Within what it describes, the artist is free to render it how they like. It's not uncommon for people to consider the blazon the "real" coat of arms and any display of it an artistic interpretation. This can be quite simple, for instance: quote:Azure, a bend Or.  It can get a little unwieldy with larger devices. For instance, Hungary in 1867: quote:Quarterly, I azure, three lions' heads affrontés crowned Or (for Dalmatia); II chequy gules and argent (for Croatia); III azure, a river in fess gules bordered argent thereupon a marten proper beneath a six-pointed star Or (for Slavonia); IV per fess azure and Or, overall a bar gules in the chief a demi-eagle sable displayed addextré of the sun in splendour and senestré of a crescent argent in the base seven towers three and four gules (for Transylvania); enté en point gules, a double-headed eagle proper on a peninsula vert holding a vase pouring water into the sea argent beneath a crown proper with bands azure (for Fiume); overall an escutcheon barry of eight gules and argent impaling gules, on a mount vert a crown Or issuant therefrom a double cross argent (for Hungary). 
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