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Along with the New Zealand Tourism Board, Shipley backed a white silver fern on a black background as a possible alternative flag, along the lines of the Canadian Maple Leaf flag. In 2003, New Zealand's America's Cup team, Team New Zealand , launched the "Loyal" campaign, using a silver fern flag and a song of the same name by New Zealand ...
The use of the phrase "white feather" to symbolise cowardice is attested from the late 18th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.The OED cites A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785), in which lexicographer Francis Grose wrote "White feather, he has a white feather, he is a coward, an allusion to a game cock, where having a white feather, is a proof he is not of the ...
According to a longstanding legend, the Black Prince obtained the badge from the blind King John of Bohemia, against whom he fought at the Battle of Crécy in 1346. After the battle, the prince is said to have gone to the body of the dead king, and taken his helmet with its ostrich feather crest, afterwards incorporating the feathers into his arms, and adopting King John's motto, "Ich dien ...
Bocas del Toro, Panama (with black and white text) ... Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992) – with gold outline; White, red, green, blue
Ostrich feather Badge of the Prince of Wales: Date: 20 July 2010, 13:40 (UTC) Source: Own work based on: Coat of arms of the Prince of Wales.svg by Sodacan: Author: Sodacan: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Coat of arms of Cheshire County Council.png: SVG development
The ceremonies marking the end of British rule in Hong Kong in 1997 featured the Royal Hong Kong Police (RHKP) aide-de-camp to the Governor in a white Wolseley pith helmet with black and white feathers. It was the last occasion on which this style of headdress appeared as a symbol of the Empire.
[8] [9] Toltec groups were making feathered items from black and white feathers of local origin. [5] The most developed use of feathers in Mesoamerica was among the Aztecs, Tlaxcaltecs and Purepecha. [1] Feathers were used to make many types of objects from arrows, fly whisks, fans, complicated headdresses and fine clothing. [10]
The pied raven had large areas of white feathering, most frequently on the head, the wings and the belly, and its beak was light brown. Apart from that, it looked like the all-black North Atlantic ravens (C. c. varius morpha typicus), [3] which remain widespread in the Faroe Islands and are also found in Iceland. [4]