[QUOTE=MysticCat;2266579]And vexillology is mentioned in a New York Times story today on a possible new flag for New Zealand:
Maybe One Less Union Jack.
For reference, the current New Zealand flag,
and the silver fern flag.
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Anybody take Latin in school? The vexilla or vexalla was the cloth standard of the Roman Legions. Each legion had a vexilla and an Eagle surmounting the initials S.P.Q.R. Each Cohort (roughly a battalion sized unit usually part of a legion but sometimes operating indepentently) had a Maniple, a bronze hand with other insigniae to identify the unit. Any body remember what S.P.Q.R. stood for? How about a Maniple - why a bronze hand?
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Different comment: Why get rid of the "Union Jack" in the NZ flag? Since Her Majesty is still Queen of New Zeeland it seems odd that the visual link to the soverign would be eliminated.
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