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2:3~
by Mark Sensen and António Martins,
Flag adopted
Other
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also:
The colors
on the flag correspond to those on the national coat of arms.
The blue represents water (the motto on the national arms is
Nick Artimovich,
The blue colour a symbol of
rain, how lovely!
Heather Chalcraft,
I returned today after ten
days in
Bruce Berry,
The colour shade for the
blue used on the national flag is being discussed by the Cabinet. There
has been a problem with standardisation and so flags with various shades of
blue (from different manufacturers) are seen and the government wants to change
this. As soon as I get the confirmed details, I will share them with you.
Bruce Berry, 10 May 2001
Act 25,1966
PART I Blazon of the Arms or Ensigns Armorial of
Argent three barrulets wavy
in fesse azure between in chief three cog-wheels, one above engaged with two
below and in base a bull's head caboshed proper, and for the supporters on
either side a zebra the dexter supporting an elephant's tusk the sinister a
stalk of sorghum proper. Motto "
PART II Design of the
National Flag of
Five horizontal stripes
having colour and width as follows, that is to say taken from the top_
1st Stripe_azure blue having a width equal to 9/24ths of the total depth of the
flag.
2nd Stripe_white having a width equal to 1/24th of such depth.
3rd Stripe_black having a width equal to 4/24ths of such depth.
4th Stripe_white having a width equal to 1/24th of such depth.
5th Stripe_azure blue having a width equal to 9/24ths of such depth.
PART III Design of
the Standard of the President of
An azure blue flag with a
black circular disk (having a diameter equal to 12/24ths of the depth of the
flag) superimposed on the centre of the flag, a white circular disk (having a
diameter equal to 10/24ths of the depth of the flag) superimposed on the centre
of the black disk and the coat of arms superimposed on the white disk.
Source: Governmental
document about
This agrees well with what
I posted recently based on Album 2000 information. However, I drew the white
disk on presidential flag sized 11/24 (as I had no numbers there).
Zeljko Heimer,
![[Botswana flag construction sheet]](..\images\b\bw'.gif)
by
Zeljko Heimer, 18 Mar 2001
The construction sheet is
provided along the edges of the figure so (9+1+4+1+9):36. The image at FOTW
agrees with this, either Mark Sensen was aware of this data or he had a good
artistic feeling.
Source: Album 2000.
Zeljko Heimer,
I found in
"Courrier International" (#524,
The original paper reporting the story is from the Spanish newspaper "El
Pais". A colour picture shows the casket of "El Negro de
Banyoles" just before the funeral ceremony hold in
Who was "El Negro
de Banyoles"?
Ca. 1830, two French adventurers-naturalists living in Cape Town, Jules and
Edouard Verreaux, unearthed the corpse of a tribal chief shortly after his
funeral and stuffed it using taxidermy methods. In 1888, the Catalan
veterinarian Francisco Darder, then curator of the zoo of Barcelona, bought the
stuffed corpse, known as "the Bechuana", and exhibited it later in
the Darder Museum he founded in 1916 in Banyoles (province of Gerona) to
display his naturalist's collections. "El Negro" became a source of
fascination and legends for the inhabitants of the city.
In 1991, the physician Alphonse Arcelin, of Haitian origin, asked the
municipality to remove the corpse from the Museum. The corpse was removed from
the Museum during the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games to avoid a risk of boycott
by African countries.
In 1996, the Spanish government decided to avoid an international crisis and
asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find a solution. Since the warrior had
lived in
In September 2000, the corpse was removed one night from the Museum and sent to
Ivan Sache,