It is taken from the coat of arms of the Barons of Baltimore, the original proprietors of the colony. The black-and-gold quarters represent the Calvert family, and the red-and-silver quarters represent the Crossland family.
Uh, yes, I know this. This is what we on the web call a “joke.”
Are y’all not mentionin’ the 'Bama flag 'cuz of the associations? Visually, ain’t much different than the England flag. Simple, red on white cross.
Also serves to remind them, that when they were asked a question by the North, they gave the wrong answer.
Reminds me too much of Family Feud.
Alabama’s flag isn’t horrible, like so many state flags are. It doesn’t fail as a flag. But it goes into the grab-bag of crosses and saltires and tricolors. Nothing wrong with them, but not much there. It doesn’t make me want to punch the designer in the face, which is good.
Hey at least the provincial flags are better than the flag of the Nunavut territory. It fails on so many levels:the shoddily drawn set of rocks in the middle (yes I know it is a traditional Inuit symbol), the single star shoved off in the corner where it can easily lost if flying, and the fact the color combos make the flag look like it was stitched together from better flags.
Are any city and town flags notable? My current home – Columbia, Missouri – has kind of an odd one: Columbia, Missouri - Wikipedia. I think I’d like it if the background was a different color. That’s just a lot of white.
My beloved home town, St. Louis, has an almost-decent flag: Flag of St. Louis - Wikipedia. I know the squiggly lines are supposed to represent the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, but they just look goofy to me. I think it would be a crackerjack flag if those bands were straight instead of squiggly.
'Bama would round out my top six. Then, after that, I have no idea.
Maybe so, but I’ve always liked this flag – particularly for the irony of the grizzly bear having gone extinct in California.
Tennessee has a nice flag. It and New Mexico are my favorite state flags.
They should have stuck with their original flag, that is one gorgeous design.
I’ve been looking at the North Korean flag as presented in the *World Almanac. *According to that source, the predominant color isn’t red, it’s puce!
That’s a good point. People largely don’t care about, say, the uniforms of 1890’s Parisian police or division badges of the Australian Army circa 1975. They do, often times, have a morbid fascination with even the most intricate details of, say, an SS officer’s uniform or the “correct” vehicular markings of North Korean border patrol jeeps and what the minimum rank for commanding such a jeep was.
Cool:
UK
Greece
USSR
China
South Vietnam
Japan
Canada
Switzerland (only country whose flag is a big plus)
Greece
Uruguay
Not Bad:
US
Brazil
Mexico
any Scandanavian nation
France
Italy
Ireland
Spain
Thanks, Bob. Could you now make a list of the WORST flags?
My first thought about the Columbia flag was “4 H Club Flag”.
My first thought of the St. Louis flag was “Three drunk drivers converging into a flaming pillar of wreckage.”
Hijack - I always thought *Tonton Macoute *was a beautiful name.
I loathe the Saudi regime just as much as it’s possible to loathe something, but I have to say they have a great flag. As did the Soviets.
It’s actually surprising to me that Cuba never changed their flag to something more, um, obviously Communist when they had their revolution. For that matter, they didn’t change the name of Cuba either (to ‘Socialist Republic of Cuba’ or something).