{"id":26733,"date":"2021-03-04T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26733"},"modified":"2021-03-04T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T11:53:16","slug":"how-well-do-you-know-the-flags-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26733","title":{"rendered":"How well do you know the flags of the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am currently reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Lessons-21st-Century-Yuval-Harari\/dp\/1784708283\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26KSN3J1ZS9XL&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=21+lessons+for+the+21st+century+paperback&amp;qid=1614858433&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=21+Lessons%2Caps%2C176&amp;sr=1-1\">&#8220;21 Lessons For The 21st Century&#8221;<\/a> by the Israeli writer Yuval Noah Harari. I am stunned by the breadth of his knowledge of different subjects, different nations and different periods of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a chapter about how the world has become a global civilisation, he instances how flags of the world are so similar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;National flags display the same dreary conformity. With a single exception, all flags are rectangular pieces of cloth marked by an extremely limited repertoire of colours, stripes and geometrical shapes. Nepal is the odd country out, with a flag consisting of two triangles &#8230;<\/p><p>The Indonesian flag consists of a red stripe above a white stripe. The Polish flag displays a white stripe above a red stripe. The flag of Monaco is identical to that of Indonesia.<\/p><p>A colour-blind person could hardly tell the difference between the flags of Belgium, Chad, Ivory Coast, France, Guinea, Ireland, Italy, Mali and Romania &#8211; they all have three vertical stripes of various colours.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to check out these flags and others, you&#8217;ll find a complete set of illustrations of the world&#8217;s flags <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/geography\/flags-of-the-world\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently reading &#8220;21 Lessons For The 21st Century&#8221; by the Israeli writer Yuval Noah Harari. I am stunned by the breadth of his knowledge of different subjects, different nations and different periods of history. In a chapter about how the world has become a global civilisation, he instances how flags of the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26733"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26741,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26733\/revisions\/26741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}