Oh, interesting.
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A very clever poster. I never realized Finland was waving to us before.
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I’m waving back Right Now!
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This is pretty neat:
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toes in the sand in florida.
Conch Republic flag has no toes - only a “foot” of a certain gastropod.
dog save the Queen (conch). long may she reign.
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It is cool.
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Does South Carolina have an easement to the Mississippi? Wonder how Tennessee ended up scoring that choice bit of land.
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Once in a very great while I forget that Fort Detroit was founded in 1701. A little over a hunnert years later, she burned.
After the fire, the new Downtown was designed in 1807, by Augustus Woodward, a pentagrammatical Mason.
From th’ above link:
Today, the legacy of the Great Fire of 1805 is evident in the flag of Detroit. Two women appear in the center – one who weeps over the town’s destruction and the other who looks ahead to the stronger, brighter city that will replace it. The Latin motto on the flag, reportedly stated by Father Gabriel Richard, reads: “Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus,” which means “We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes.”
Our flag, which has human and animal toes in it, in reverse chronological order:
Michigan’s flag:
Dunno what Sasquatch is doing there, but we do still have a lot of thickly forested areas! XD I think dude’s sposed to be a woodsman, but this artist may not have got that 'tick’lar memo…
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And TUEBOR? Isnt that a crappy Danish beer?
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Need to make it one headed bald eagle.
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Personification of Greenland is a polar bear.
So uncle Sam fist fighting a polar bear would be nice.
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The “Potsdam Gravity Potato” shows the differences in gravity on Earth’s surface. It has a potato-like shape due to variations in Earth’s mass distribution, causing local gravitational anomalies that appear as an irregular shape when mapped.
The Indian Ocean has the world’s largest gravity ‘black hole,’ which is the most recessed part of the potato (marked with blue). This spot is called the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), and it is the largest gravity anomaly on our planet, covering an area of about 3 million square kilometers, almost the size of India itself. Due to the low gravity there, the sea level over the IOGL is up to 106 m (348 ft) lower than the global average. That means if you were to sail across the anomaly, you would be closer to Earth’s center than anywhere else on the ocean.
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