Why is the racing checkered flag, checkered?
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Good question.  Sorry, but I wouldn't know why.......
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You also rarely hear your national anthem.  We are a country that is proud of every aspect of it.  We fought for what we have.  We live in a society that teaches us to be proud of where we live and respect where we are from.  The flag is a symbol of our freedom.  It is way more than just a flag to us.  I realize that is something that you may not understand.  The stars and stripes of the flag all represent something.   The 13 stripes represent the original 13 colonies and the 50 stars represent the 50 states.  It isn't "just a flag" it is a symbol of who we are and how we got to be that.  :)
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i think its an american flag!
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It is to help with the offside calls.\n\nAs noted by at least one, usually a lot of fields use different designs for purely aesthetic reasons, including circles, diamonds, etc.   As you've noticed, there has been a marked lack of variety in the field designs for the World Cup.  Only the striped patterns are used.
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69.\n\nOkay, okay... it's useful on a race car so the number reads the same from all perspectives from the track, and even if the car gets turned over. Geez...
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Because that is the color of the National Team, blue, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.
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More than an issue about this particular flag, it is an issue about local codes enacted by city councils and counties that are intrusive.  \n\nCertainly local codes addressing areas of health and safety are reasonable.  However, addressing "how things look" is questionable.  You might check your local codes and see if the "international Property Codes" have been adopted in your area.  If so, read them and you will find things that have nothing to do with health and safety, sort of like local code where Trump put up the flag.
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The german flag has a black horizontal stripe at the top, with a red horizontal stripe in the middle, and a yellow horizontal stripe at the bottom.\n\nThe reasons are long and complex (but mostly relate to tradition with respect the black and gold, and the red possibly coming from the Hanseastic league), and I suggest you take a look at the wikipedia site linked below.
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I think the one thing thats worse than England flags flown from cars are England flags which have "ENGLAND" written over the middle of the Cross of St George - flown from cars. The flag itself represents England and obviously doesn't need the name of the country written over it!\n\nI also find it quite moronic how a few years back it seemed England fans didn't even know what flag to fly at these events and would be displaying Union flags.\n\nNow it's so widespread that everyone who wants to look like a "lad" sticks a few flags up from their cars. By all means support England but dont stick those cheap little Halfords England flags upon your car roof - they also suck up fuel economy and can be a hazard when they eventually fly off...I had to drive around one which was rolled up in the road...it was only when I drove past it and saw it was a little flag that I had  a little laugh to myself.\n\nAs far as the England flag representing thuggery and "chavs" , I think thats a little biased, based on a few token individuals who give the country a bad name by not being able to hold their drink.
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OK it is very simple. when a flag is raised on a vehicle or a ship and that ship or vehicles is going into battle the flag waves. thus the stars lead the way. so the flag is sown on the uniforms the same way so that when the troops go into battle the stars lead the way as if it was waving in the wind. also when the Calvary carried the flags into battle on horseback the stars lead the way. that is the reason and not some stupid teenage immature answer
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it goes something like this...\n\n"These five intertwined rings represent the unity of five continents. They appear in five colors on a white field on the Olympic Flag. These colors, white (for the field), red, blue, green, yellow, and black were chosen such that each nation had at least one of these colors in its national flag. The flag was adopted in 1914, but the first Games at which it was flown were Antwerp, 1920. It is hoisted at each celebration of the Games."
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The white background symbolizes peace and truth. The five rings represent the five continents of the world, but a prevalent post-facto interpretation has tied specific colors to specific continents:\n• Blue representing Europe \n• Black representing Africa \n• Red representing America \n• Yellow representing Asia \n• Green representing Australia (Oceania)\n\nThe Olympic flag is a symbol of peace, goodwill, and global solidarity and tolerance. True to this meaning, she has lent her colors to many athletes who were unable to compete under their own flag.\n\nAt Barcelona in 1992, athletes from a part of Yugoslavia not represented at the Games participated as independent athletes under the Olympic flag. They did not march in the parade of flags, but the Olympic flag was raised on their behalf during award ceremonies for them. In the 2000 Games at Sydney, four athletes from East Timor were allowed to compete under the Olympic flag because East Timor did not have international status as an independent country.
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The flag is backwards because it symbolizes that the soldier is carrying the flag and it is streaming behind him.  I.E. if the soldier was carrying a real flag the flag would look the same as the one on his right shoulder.
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The colour makeup of the stars (which represent the points of the southern cross) reflects that of the Union Jack. Red interior with white borders on a blue background.\n\nIf you refer back to the maritime origins of the NZ flag you will see that this has invariably been the case. Prior to the current flag, there was a flag that included the letters NZ in the bottom right hand corner (no stars); these letters were also in red with a white border. Additionally, a prior 'signalling' flag consisted of four red stars on a white disc.
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don't know \nand 4 the riddle is it a flag?
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The only people that have to salute the flag are active military personnel.  What bothers me is when people don't respect the flag by not removing their hats during the National Anthem(rednecks at NASCAR races).  People who think it's part of the freedom of speech to desecrate the flag( i.e. burning it, defecating on it, etc.).
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There are five interlocking rings coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red.\n\nThese five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition.\n\nThe rings are with a WHITE background on the Olympic flag, the six colours thus combined reproduce those of all the nations without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the French, British, American, German, Belgian, Italian, and Hungarian tricolours, the yellow and red of Spain lie next to the new Brazilian and Australian flags, and the old Japan and the young China. This is really an international emblem\n\nThough the Baron de Coubertin obviously considered the rings and colours as two independent characteristics, and even though the IOC explicitly states no ring represents a specific continent, still some people list matches. These are some such lists. (Since users of each list claim that list to be the explanation in general use, they are ordered here alphabetically according to the arbitrary, somewhat explanatory titles.)\n\nA map, of sorts\n\n* Blue - Americas\n* Yellow - Africa\n* Black - Europe\n* Green - Oceania\n* Red - Asia\n\n\n\nColours representing peoples, Blue ocean\n\n* Blue - Oceania\n* Yellow - Asia\n* Black - Africa\n* Green - Europe\n* Red - Americas\n\n\nColours representing peoples, Greek flag\n\n* Blue - Europe\n* Yellow - Asia\n* Black - Africa\n* Green - Oceania\n* Red - Americas\n\nThis is the colours continents meanings who choose an IOC organism: The Association of National Olympic Committees who englobes to all 204 National Olympic Committee like the colours symbology for its emblems