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	Flag of the Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The national flag of the Netherlands, with its three equal horizontal bands coloured red (top), white and blue, was not the country's first flag.
		The orange-white-blue flag, however, continued to be flown as well and in later times formed the basis for the South African flag.
		This flag had a life as short as that of the Batavian Republic for which it was created.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands (836 words)

	Orange Free State - Wikipedia
		The national flag of the Orange Free State was adopted in 1856 & loosely resembled the design of the national flag of the United States of America.
		The OFS national flag contained alternating horizontal orange & white stripes (3 orange & 4 white with the white stripes on the outside) with a version of the Dutch flag (used initially at Graaff-Reinet & Swellendam in 1795) featured in the canton.
		The Orange Free State national flag was featured in the former long running national flag of South Africa (from 1927 - 1994) as the vertical middle flag in the center of the white bar of the old South African flag.
	www.web-dictionary.org /encyclopedia/or/Orange_Free_State.html (392 words)

	Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Flag adopted 17 August 1945, Coat of Arms adopted 1 February 1950.
		However, blue in Dutch flag was understood as standing for the "blue blooded" aristocracy, whom the nationalists were seeking to kick out.
		Sutiyoso said the flag must be tightly guarded by Presidential Guards to ensure its safety as well as to show respect for Indonesia's heroes, particularly former First Lady Fatmawati, the second wife of founding president Sukarno.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/id.html (1060 words)

	DutchReport: Dutch flag prohibited!
		The national flag of your country is not something to be ashamed of, but is a focal point for all citzens; a source of pride.
		When your flag has to be banned in case you upset migrants, then the flag is not the problem, but the cowards who enforce the ban.
		Local business often display flags at their entrances that say "we are open" and the flags are very similar to the Dutch flag.
	dutchreport.blogspot.com /2005/02/dutch-flag-prohibited.html (2402 words)

	Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Russian national flags normally used in Russia range from the lightest to the darkest shade (like from argentine blue to british blue), even if in russian light blue is considered a separate color.
		We could say that white, blue and red flags were in used in Russia from about 1667, mainly in the quartered form with a blue cross, while from 1697, after the visit of Peter the Great to Netherlands, the triband design became the preferred one.
		The symbols [flag and coat of arms] are given prominent mention in the words for the revived anthem — the re-established Soviet tune, with new words by the same poet who composed the original nearly 60 years ago.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru.html (1374 words)

	The Netherlands - Kingdom of the Netherlands
		Flag adopted 19 February 1937, coat of arms adopted 10 July 1907.
		The Dutch tricolour is the national flag, flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (which includes the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and until its independence in 1975 Suriname), merchant flag, naval ensign and war flag.
		The colours of the flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are red, white and blue.
	flagspot.net /flags/nl.html (860 words)

	Ambassade Vilnius - Dutch Flag and Coat of Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was thus a flag easily associated with the leader, and the association was expressed in the name the Prince's Flag.
		The diversity in form and colour of the Dutch national flags in the time of the Republic of the United Provinces shows clearly that a flag is not immutable, but evolves with the country it represents and frequently reflects that country's history.
		The Dutch royal family originates from the county of Nassau in Germany, and the lion on their royal arms is the same as the lion on the oldest arms of Nassau, dating from the 13th century.
	www.mfa.nl /vil/about_the/general_information/dutch_flag_and_coat (1386 words)

	South Africa (1928-1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The compromise design eventually adopted saw the flag of the Republic of the Orange Free State hanging vertically in the centre of the white stripe of the Princevlag with the Union Jack spread horizontally towards the hoist from the centre and the flag of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal) spread towards the fly.
		The flag generally used by Dutch vessels at, or before that time was in the colours of the House of Orange in honour of the Prince of Orange, the Stadtholder of the Netherlands.
		The reason for the politicising of the flag was the refusal of the States-General to appoint a member of the House of Orange as head of the government and expressed its enmity by changing the orange to red in the national flag.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/za_old.html (3621 words)

	Peaktalk - BAN THE FLAG
		Especially in times of difficulty a flag has proven to be a rallying point to unite a people behind a common cause, the Dutch for instance forged a deep bond with their red-white-and- blue when German occupiers made it a crime to fly it.
		To prohibit school youth from carrying the flag for which many of their grandfathers died fighting for the Dutch resistance or in German concentration camps is nothing short of obscene.
		The flag has equally been a focal point in America’s regained sense of confidence after the crisis years of the 60s and 70s as the nation was able to see the value of the colors without associating it with one particular activity as someone like Katha Pollitt did.
	www.peaktalk.com /archives/001045.php (710 words)

	Suriname
		New arms are adopted, consisting of the three-master, flying a (Dutch) flag with 'R.v.S.' for 'Raad van Suriname' ('Council of Suriname').
		On 1 March 1803 the Batavian Republic abolished all previous adopted arms, and the Dutch arms (a lion of gold with sword and bunch of arrows) with 'Suriname' underneath became the new arms of Suriname.
		The present flag of Surinam was established by a Decree of the Governor (Johan H. Ferrier) dated 25 November 1975 (abrogating Decree G.B. 1929 No.105 of 8 December 1959) and the appendix gave construction details, official colour specifications and the original symbolism of the flag.
	flagspot.net /flags/sr.html (1564 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - Dutch Schools Ban the Dutch Flag
		A Dutch newspaper article explains that many Dutch schools are forbidding the display of the Dutch flag.
		Not only flags are outlawed, but the wearing of Lonsdale clothes, or shoes with red or white laces, or leather bomber jackets, all of these could, according to the school board, result in discrimination and bad behavior among students.
		The flag of the Netherlands is composed of red, white, and blue stripes, and its roots stretch back to the Dutch war of independence against Spain in the 16th century.
	volokh.com /posts/1107806873.shtml (486 words)

	Dutch flag in CSS - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style
		These experiments are of course quite useless and the Dutch flag is worse, since it is quite an easy flag to make.
		The colors of our national flag are officially bright vermilion (rgb: 255, 77, 0) and cobalt (rgb: 0, 71, 171).
		Since the representation of a flag should actually be an image using CSS is already incorrect, but creating a lot of elements for every single color is just not needed.
	annevankesteren.nl /2005/03/dutch-flag (957 words)

	EUROPA - The EU at a glance - European Governments on-line - The Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The official website of the Dutch Monarchy offers a description of the royal family and the royal palaces; as well as setting out the institutional role of the Head of State in the Netherlands.
		Overheid.nl is a portal for the websites of Dutch local, regional and national authorities, classified by subject and by the name of the body concerned.
		The key issues in Dutch foreign policy are also explained and priorities for the current year identified.
	europa.eu.int /abc/governments/netherlands/index_en.htm (367 words)

	Palestinian Flag Angers Dutch Jews
		She added that raising the flag outside her balcony means that she supports the Palestinians in their struggle defending themselves against the aggression of the Israeli government.
		Dutch papers have recently attacked Muslim demonstrators who burnt the Israeli flag in a pro-Palestinian demonstrations that were held in the Dutch capital during the month of April.
		Dutch sources have revealed that nearly 50 per cent of the newborns during the next twenty years will be Muslim which means a central change in the social, cultural and political structure of the city which is one of the most important economic centers in Europe.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/691516/posts (907 words)

	NETHERLANDS FLAG, KINGDOM OF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the end of the 15th century the majority of the Netherlands provinces were united under one Lord and one common flag which was known as the Cross of Burgundy.
		The red division of the flag was embellished in 1796, with the figure of a Netherlands maiden with a lion at her feet imposed in the upper left corner.
		The decision as to which of these two flags should be the national flag would remain undecided for many years.
	www.canadaflagmart.com /item43.htm (487 words)

	Dutch
		The diversity in form and color of the Netherlands national flags in the time of the Republic of the United Provinces, shows clearly that a flag is not an immutable object, but one which evolves with the country it represents and frequently reflects that country's history.
		The best known example of this was the replacement of the "fleur-de-lis" flag of the French monarchy by the present tricolor during the French Revolution.
		There came no change in the red-white-blue (colors to which the French liberators were kindly disposed, analogous as they were to their own tricolor), but in 1796 the red division of the flag was embellished with the figure of a Netherlands maiden, with a lion at her feet.
	www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk /dutch.htm (1846 words)

	joannejacobs.com: Dutch flag is unsafe at Dutch school (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two Dutch teen-agers were advised by their school's principal to remove the Dutch flag from their book bags to avoid angering Moroccan students.
		Having said that, I did cite Dutch Report in a recent post of ours about how (in the Netherlands) there have been a number of incidents where immigrant students assaulted their teachers.
		Dutch report even links to a disturbing video where the classroom assualt was captured on tape.
	www.joannejacobs.com /mtarchives/014819.html (944 words)

	ZGram - 7/2/2002 - "Does anybody know how the Dutch 'flag campaign' ended?" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because of a tree in front of the house, it was difficult to see the flag - except to the van der Wiekens, a Jewish couple living diagonally opposite.
		After looking at Duisenberg's flag for about five weeks, the Van der Wieken family asking her to remove it because some might consider the Palestinian flag as representing terror.
		Since then, the flag that flew at the Duisenbergs has been passed from supporter to supporter and flown from houses and apartments throughout the Netherlands.
	www.zundelsite.org /english/zgrams/zg2002/2002-July/000355.html (709 words)

	FreeConservatives - In Holland, It is Now Illegal to Fly the Dutch Flag In Schools
		If a student wears the national flag of his own country he will be suspended or expelled from school.
		Even people who have an bumpersticker with the flag on their car are harassed and called a facist by the Muslims.
		Of course, the Dutch are also planning to insistute a test to curb their burgoening 3rd world country immigrants.
	freeconservatives.com /vb/showthread.php?t=18894 (847 words)

	Anglo-Dutch flags (historical) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It looks like a red flag with fl letters, but according to Van der Laars the flag is red with white letters ("For the protestant Religion and the Liberty of England").
		In Holland that was not the case as this 'Union flag' for some reason was depicted as fl on red.
		It seems this flag was used by the fleet of King-Stadholder William III when he sailed from Hellevoetsluis (Holland) to Torbay (England) on 11 November 1688.
	www.z6.com /z6files/z6files/fotw/flags/nl_anglo.html (641 words)

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		In fact, the Dutch flag is not banned from "most schools".
		Not only flags, but also clothes of the Lonsdale brand, combat boots with white or red laces and bomberjacks can have discrimination or ragging behavior as a consequence according to the school board.
		Many (of course not all) of the students who DO wear flags on their clothes or bags are nationalistic students, rightish students who in my opinion abuse our tri-color by linking it a bit to "one nation, one flag".
	www.perspectives.com /forums/forum71/28075-3.html (6661 words)

	World Aircraft Carriers Photo Gallery: Dutch Aircraft Carriers
		They were civilian-manned and flew the merchant flag rather than the naval ensign.
		After WWII she was loaned to the Netherlands to help in rebuilding the shattered Dutch navy; she commissioned in Dutch service 20 March 1946.
		Decommissioned in 1947, she was sold to the Dutch in 1948.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/nethcv (736 words)

	Dutch national flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The algorithm is named for the problem of ordering red, white, and blue marbles into the order of the Dutch national flag.
		The flag of the Netherlands or the Dutch national flag.
		Paul E. Black, "Dutch national flag", from Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures, Paul E. Black, ed., NIST.
	www.nist.gov /dads/HTML/dutchnatlflg.html (294 words)

	joannejacobs.com: Comment on Dutch flag is unsafe at Dutch school (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Posted by Doc at February 7, 2005 01:21 PM I've now read two accounts of this without seeing any reason for Moroccans, or anyone else, to be offended by the sight of the Dutch flag.
		Posted by Joanne Jacobs at February 7, 2005 02:52 PM Even with the current 'multi-cultural' PC insanity, the US is one of the very few countries in the world that can actually assimilate immigrants.
		Posted by EdWonk at February 8, 2005 11:31 AM If they can't stand the sight of the national flag, they're in the wrong nation.
	www.joannejacobs.com /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=14819 (821 words)

	Dutch flag "insulting to Muslim immigrants", banned from Dutch schools :: Understanding Islam :: Hyscience
		Now the Muslims in the Netherlands say that the Dutch flag is "insulting." The Islamization of Europe continues.
		The Dutch have banned their flag, but I'm sure they'll be quite happy to wear the zunnar.
		I'm pretty sure the Dutch flag is one in this case.
	www.hyscience.com /archives/2005/02/dutch_flag_insu.php (509 words)

	Coyote Blog: Dutch Ban Display of Dutch Flag
		Apparently, the Dutch flag is considered by some to be insulting to non-Dutch.
		The Dutch have more to be proud of than any other nation.
		The Dutch in many ways led the whole world, or at least the western portion of it, into the modern world of free, secular, capitalist society.
	www.coyoteblog.com /coyote_blog/2005/02/dutch_ban_displ.html (323 words)

	DebatingForum.com :: View topic - Dutch flag "insulting to Muslim immigrants", banne
		In the Netherlands the national flag is now banned on most schools.
		Even people who have an bumpersticker whit the flag on their car are harassed and called a facist by the Muslims.
		I don}t have a problem with that but it highlights thewarped PC thinking we are victims of in this country where the Union Jack and Cross of St George is considered as a sign of racism.
	debatingforum.com /viewtopic.php?t=610 (608 words)

	OpinionBug.com » Schools Banning Dutch Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Schools in Holland are busy banning the Dutch flag to avoid provoking immigrants, mainly Moroccans:
		Dutch Report—Cals College in IJsselstein has prohibited two of it’s students to have Dutch flags on their bags.
		Dutch students banned from displaying their national flag—what’s next?
	www.opinionbug.com /index.php?p=203 (201 words)

	The Fleur-de-Lys
		A bonus of this theory is that the yellow flag is also called "flambe" or "flamme" in old French, which links it very nicely to the oriflamme.
		The late date for the use of fleur-de-lis in English to designate the flower makes me suspect that, here, the charge came first and the name was applied to the flower because of the formal resemblance.
		Also, a plant of this genus.blue iris, Iris germanica, the German Flag, a common cultivated species; fetid iris, the Gladden, Iris foetidissima; Florentine iris = white iris; stinking iris = fetid iris; white iris, Iris florentina, from which orrisroot is obtained; yellow iris, the Yellow Flag, Iris Pseudacorus, the common British species.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/fdl.htm (3722 words)

	HorsesDaily: Dressage - Anky Van Grunsven To Carry Dutch Flag in Opening Ceremonies for the 2000 Olympic Games
		The Dutch flag will be carried by Dressage rider Anky van Grunsven in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2000 Olympic Games, Friday, September 15, in Sydney, Australia.
		During a packed press conference held at Holland Heineken House September 9, the delegation from The Netherlands selected van Grunsven from all the Dutch athletes.
		With her longtime companion, Gestion Bonfire, van Grunsven is always strongest in the "Kur", The Individual Freestyle, where horse and rider perform to music, a concept similar to figure skating.
	www.horsesdaily.com /olympics/anky-o1.html (343 words)

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