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  2. List of sovereign states by date of current flag adoption

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    1962 (modernized; the faces disappeared from the sun and moon) Malaysia. 1950. 1950. 1963 (14-point star and 14 stripes after Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore joined the federation, remains unchanged in 1965 after Singapore was expelled and the addition of Putrajaya and Labuan in the flag) Kenya. 1963. 1963. 1963.

  3. John Steinbeck - Wikipedia

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    Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. [8] He was of German, English, and Irish descent. [9] Johann Adolf Großsteinbeck (1828–1913), Steinbeck's paternal grandfather, was a founder of Mount Hope, a short-lived messianic farming colony in Palestine that disbanded after Arab attackers killed his brother and raped his brother's wife and mother-in-law.

  4. Cecil Rhodes - Wikipedia

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    Cecil Rhodes. Cecil John Rhodes (/ ˈsɛsəl ˈroʊdz / SES-əl ROHDZ; 5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [2] was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and ...

  5. List of sovereign states by date of formation - Wikipedia

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    Independence dates for widely recognized states earlier than 1919 should be treated with caution, since prior to the founding of the League of Nations, there was no international body to recognize nationhood, and independence had no meaning beyond mutual recognition of de facto sovereigns (the role of the League of Nations was effectively taken over by the United Nations after the Second World ...

  6. Lydia - Wikipedia

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    Lydia (Ancient Greek: Λυδία, romanized: Lūdiā; Latin: Lȳdia) was an Iron Age kingdom situated in the west of Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital was Sardis.

  7. Richard I of England - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Gisors. Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard Cœur de Lion (Norman French: Quor de Lion) [1][2] or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, [3][4][5] was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony ...

  8. Grand Union Flag - Wikipedia

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    Grand Union Flag. A British Union flag, with thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, in the field. The Continental Union Flag (often referred to as the first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) was the flag of the United Colonies from 1775 to 1776, and the de facto flag of the United States until 1777, when the ...

  9. Timeline of national flags - Wikipedia

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    Please help improve this articleif you can. (October 2021)(Learn how and when to remove this message) This article contains a list of the flags and/or modifications made on the flags of current sovereign nations. Sovereign states. [edit] Country. before 1700s. 1700s. 1710s.