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What's the red, white and blue (with stars) banner that Trump was using on the stage in his election campaign?
It's standard American Flag Bunting, which is the standard way to render the American Flag in a linear, banner form.
You've most likely seen it curled into a half-circle ring for decoration, ...
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If Puerto Rico becomes the 51st U.S state, would the U.S flag be altered to include 51 stars?
Each time a new state is admitted to the Union, a new star is added on the following 4th of July (Independence Day in the USA). This was last done on 4th July 1960, following the admission of Hawai'i ...
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Are there any restrictions on what a national flag should look like?
International politics is anarchy. There is no such thing as an international committee which needs to approve flags and other national symbols.
However, more eccentric designs might run into some ...
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How does one buy a burnable American flag in Tehran?
It's kinda funny that after seeing your post, I searched a lot and I finally found the source of those US flags in Iran. Guess what? They are completely produced in Iran just for the purpose of ...
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What is this flag with a red 6-pointed star in a red crescent on white ground?
The angle of the photo is pretty bad, but the star isn't actually David's star (despite the six points): note the steeper angles. Also there is a smaller star-like symbol "under" the ...
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What is the blue-white-blue horizontal triband flag waved by karateka Sandra Sánchez at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics?
This is the flag of Sánchez's hometown, Talavera de la Reina, in Castile–La Mancha.
Source: Wikipedia
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What flag has a red star, in a yellow circle, in a green ring, on a red background?
It's the flag of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party:
They are in conflict with Turkey because of civil rights violations against Kurds, as well as a desire for a Kurdish nation.
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Why would Russian troops in Ukraine fly the flag of the USSR? And why would the Russian MoD advertise this?
I see it as antagonistic by local vehicle crews, particularly those who look up to the myth of the old Soviet Empire.
Bit like you might see in other countries where they might fly the old flags of ...
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What does the flag of Imperial Germany symbolize today?
Indeed, the horizontal black-white-red flag was first widely used in the North German Confederation (post-1866) and subsequently as a flag of the (second) German Empire 1871–1918. In addition to the ...
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Is there a version of the flag of Pakistan which uses black instead of green?
No, it’s just an odd colour balance in that particular image - see another angle from the same event from Alamy:
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What does a black-and-white Puerto Rican flag signify?
It was used in 2016 as a symbol of protesting the US’s passing of PROMESA, a law making a board control parts of the island’s economy and having unpopular measures such as decreasing the minimum wage ...
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Does the motto “Don’t tread on me” have a specific political color?
It currently is. From 1 July:
Many held posters or wore T-shirts that said, "Back the blue." ... Two
people held up a banner that said, "TRUMP-- KEEP AMERICA GREAT 2020,"
and ...
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What are the flags being flown by this column of Russian tanks?
The first flag shown is the double-headed eagle from the Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire imposed on the Empire's black/yellow/white tricolour. The flag also includes the motto "Мы - русские / ...
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Does the motto “Don’t tread on me” have a specific political color?
The Gadsden flag is not always a political statement, but it almost always is. It wasn't until the ~2010s that it became associated with the Tea Party movement. As wiki notes
Starting in the 1970s, ...
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What does a black-and-white Puerto Rican flag signify?
What does a black-and-white Puerto Rican flag signify?
It's a resistance flag. Described in this Mother Jones article, How a Change of Color for the Puerto Rican Flag Became a Symbol of Resistance, ...
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Are there any restrictions on what a national flag should look like?
Any country can come up with any flag they want. New countries come up with flags, and even existing ones change flags once in a while (see South Africa or of course the United States).
The new flag ...
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What are the arguments against abolishing the Confederate flag?
In a word, what I think the OP is missing is the depth and breadth of the Neo-Confederate movement. An ideology of the Lost Cause emerged in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, and variations on ...
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How and to what extent did the US Senate block or prevent the patenting of the Confederate Flag?
The Senate was voting to table (dismiss) an amendment which would have "granted an extension of patent to the United Daughters of the Confederacy". The full text of the amendment was as ...
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What are the flags beside the US flag at Trump's inauguration day?
It's the Betsy Ross flag.
The first documented usage of this flag was in 1792. The flag
features 13 stars to represent the original 13 colonies with the stars
arranged in a circle.
It is the ...
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What flag has a red star, in a yellow circle, in a green ring, on a red background?
This flag is the symbol of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, also known as the PKK. Their main goal is to establish an independent Kurdish state in a territory currently claimed by Turkey, Iraq and Syria.
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Why would Russian troops in Ukraine fly the flag of the USSR? And why would the Russian MoD advertise this?
I don't think this is a frequent occurrence, but I've seen it in the footage once or twice.
Psychologically, it should work in the following fashion:
People who are loyal to Ukrainian state will ...
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What vexillologically (flag-based) named coalitions exist (theoretically) in German politics?
Since there is also a rainbow flag there are also rainbow coalitions.
Like
Munich: rainbow coalition SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen & Rosa Liste (1996–2014). Red, green, pink (plus the entire LGBTQ ...
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What are the flags being flown by this column of Russian tanks?
The black yellow white flag is First official State Flag of the Russian Empire and Flag for "Celebrations". The logo on that first flag is an imperial standard, as shown on Wikipedia.
The ...
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Who decides which US Flag design will be used when additional states are admitted?
Apparently it's the President. From USFlag.org:
On January 3rd,1959 Alaska was formally granted statehood placing the 49th star on our Flag. Executive Order of President Eisenhower dated January ...
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Why does Germany ban flag burning?
To understand why flag burning is prohibited, you need to understand this in the context of the fact that, in general, free speech protections in Germany are not as broad and absolute as in the United ...
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Are there any restrictions on what a national flag should look like?
Flags have a function as military markers. So there is a natural, not quite obsolete, restriction:
A nation's flag should not be too similar to any other nation it's at war with or might someday be ...
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What is this 45-star American flag?
Via Google reverse image search, I was able to uncover it is a rare old American flag with 45 stars in a medallion configuration made after Utah was admitted to the union.
Google results are sparse, ...
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What are the arguments against abolishing the Confederate flag?
The chief problem with the question appears to be that it omits the actor. Who should abolish the Confederate flag?
As the question already notes, the US government is not the answer to this question. ...
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What is the significance of Macron's proposed status change to the European Flag, and what steps would be needed to make this a reality?
Macron is responding/reacting to Mélenchon's (FR) fight to get rid of the EU flag in parliament.
Until now the flag basically was symbolic but not much more. With this move, France will join the 16 ...
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What is the symbology of this pin?
A reverse image search on the Russian search engine Yandex shows many other pictures of that badge, mostly in auctions.
Most of the pages aren't descriptive or link to auction pages with many other ...
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