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22 January 2008 [1] – present flag of Iraq (ratio: 2:3) Flag of Iraq being flown alongside the Flag of Kurdistan in Erbil (2011) On 22 January 2008, [1] the Council of Representatives of Iraq approved its new design for the national flag, confirmed by Law 9 of 2008 as the compromising temporary replacement for the Ba'athist Saddam-era flag.
The Church of England uses the St George's Cross flag with the coat of arms of the individual diocese in the upper-left canton. The Church of Scotland uses a Flag of Scotland depicting the Burning Bush (or Unburnt Bush, in some traditions). The Church in Wales uses a blue Cross defaced with a gold Celtic Cross.
The current flag design often evolved over the years (e.g. the flag of the United States) or can be a re-adoption of an earlier, historic flag (e.g. the flag of Libya). The year the current flag design first came into use is listed in the third column.
Scheme Textile colour Red : The Hashemite dynasty, bloody struggle for freedom.: White The Umayyad dynasty, bright and peaceful future.: Green : The Islam, the takbīr (the phrase Allahu akbar, meaning "God is great" in Arabic)
25 August - United Nations Security Council Resolution 665 issued authorizing a blockade on Iraq and leading to International sanctions against Iraq, which were largely enforced until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [3] 6 December, Iraq announces the release of thousands of foreign nationals being held in the Gulf since the fall of Kuwait. [4]
Using their property as collateral, Angel and his wife Darlene purchased a plot of land at 397 South Stemmons Freeway, which today remains the church's address. The church (named after the subdivision in which it was located) held its first services on June 25, 1962 with 34 in attendance, and simultaneously held a ground-breaking ceremony for ...
The Arab Liberation Flag borrowed the pan-Arab colors from the 1916 flag of the Arab Revolt.While the colors of black, white, red, and green on the original Arab revolt flag symbolized historical Arab dynasties, namely the Abbasids, Umayyads, Hashemites, and Islam (or possibly the Fatimids), respectively, the Arab Liberation Flag colors also had different meanings.
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.