PFA luminary Ted Kaye was on Turkish television (TRT World) last week, being interviewed as part of a story about national flags and the flag change debate in New Zealand. Check it out:
Ted Kaye on the NZ flag debate
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What’s that Flag? (From VexTab #2)
The Vexilloid Tabloid is the newsletter of the Portland Flag Association.
A Treasure Trove of Vexillology
Good news for all you vexillologists out there: NAVA, the North American Vexillological Association, has made available, for free online access, nearly everything that it has published in its premiere scholarly journal Raven. (The two most recent volumes are behind a paywall.) Most of the free content can be accessed at: https://www.pdcnet.org/raven/free The interface is basic, but… Continue reading A Treasure Trove of Vexillology
Changing The Other Portland’s Flag
As every Oregonian Portlander knows, our city name was the result of 1845 coin tosses between two founders from New England, a Bostonian and a Portlander. So it is with special interest that we see that our namesake city has now joined the long list of US cities in which vexillonaires are trying to improve the… Continue reading Changing The Other Portland’s Flag
Happy (belated) Leap Day!
A day late -- nevertheless, enjoy these Frog Flags!
What’s that Flag? (From VexTab #56)
The Vexilloid Tabloid is the newsletter of the Portland Flag Association.
Whitney Smith’s Flag of Guyana
The last issue of The Flag Bulletin (Number 233, July 2008-October 2011) is titled Celebrating 50 Years of Vexillology and commemorates the launch of the Bulletin--the first flag studies journal--on 1 October 1961. More specifically, it is a celebration of the life of Whitney Smith, upon his retirement, through a long series of personal recollections of… Continue reading Whitney Smith’s Flag of Guyana
Happy Birthday, Whitney Smith!
Jeopardy challenge: Flags for 1000, Alex. A: This man coined the word vexillology and helped organize flag studies into an global research community of that name. Q: Who is Dr. Whitney Smith? Correct! Today is Whitney Smith's 76th birthday. He was born 26 February 1940 in Arlington, Massachusetts to a family of teachers and became fascinated as a child of… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Whitney Smith!
Simplifying El Paso’s flag
Upon hearing Roman Mars repeat Ted Kaye's dictum In every bad flag there's a good flag trying to get out, James Reyes decided to simplify the flag of his hometown, El Paso, Texas, from this: to this: Adding to the list of city flag improvement efforts underway in the US he began lobbying for a… Continue reading Simplifying El Paso’s flag
Teen Hopes Flags Will Help Heal Eastern Oregon Community
[Above photo of the Burns High gym by Thomas Boyd, Oregonian Staff] The 41-day standoff between law enforcement and armed out-of-state militants who took over and vandalized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon has finally ended, but the hurt done to the communities of surrounding Harney County has only begun to heal. The… Continue reading Teen Hopes Flags Will Help Heal Eastern Oregon Community
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