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Sydney Promotes International Food Festival With Food Flags
The brand-new Sydney International Food Festival has garnered worldwide attention with an appetizing marketing campaign that showcases flags made out of food. The designs, created by Sydney advertising agency WHYBIN/ TBWA, pay homage to symbols of state by composing them out of various countries' most representative ingredients.
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Do You Have Any Flags in Your Home?
Whether it's an American flag on your sofa, or the Union Jack on your wall, flags are found in many homes around the world. Do you have one in yours?
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Do You Have Any Flags in Your Home?
Student Punished for Wearing American Flag Shirt: Right Call?
Students protested by wearing red, white, and blue duds to school after a fellow student was punished for wearing an American flag shirt. The sophomore wore the tee, which featured a tie-dyed flag motif and the words, "United States of America, Washington, DC" on the school's "hippie day," part of their homecoming festivities. The school's assistant principle deemed the shirt a violation of the school's dress code which forbids, "shirts/blouses that promote specific races, cultures, or ethnicities."
Grads Tossed For Rebel Flag — Has the Meaning Changed?
Three seniors in Bloomington, MN, missed walking in their graduation last night as punishment for displaying the Confederate flag on their trucks. For displaying the flag, the three were suspended from all school activities including their own graduation ceremony.
"The Confederate flag is a symbol of, in some cases, hatred, bigotry and it has the potential to create a very disruptive environment," said a spokesperson for the Bloomington School District, on the decision to punish the three.
Christina Wraps Her Kid in a Flag to Rock the Vote — Wrong?
New mom Christina Aguilera is politically active — and getting her son involved early — by appearing with him in an ad for Rock the Vote due out this summer. The message of the ad is great — but is the image chosen to trumpet the cause reason to sound the alarm?
Aguilera's son appears in the ad, swaddled in the American flag.
Would You Be a Patriotic Bride?
I hear picking a dress is a kind of big part of the whole wedding phenomenon — and hey, the 4th of July is coming up. . .
Where I'm Clicking Now: Flags Can Make a Statement
If hearing about Angola's "Miss Landmine Survivor" contest didn't teach you enough about the civil war-surviving country, just check out an interpretation of its flag!
Virango has a bunch of other flags used as social commentary. Believe it or not, flags can offer a quick snapshot of a country's crises.
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Open House: Flags as Drapery
According to Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8, (d) of the US Flag Code, the American flag, "should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free." But Austin's Hotel St.
How-To: Installing a Flag Pole
It may no longer be Independence Day, but flags add Summer style to your home year-round. So if you haven't already, consider hanging a flag on the exterior of your home to cheer up the neighborhood — be it an American flag, a state flag, or the flag of your favorite sports team! To learn how to install one, read more
Do You Fly a Flag at Your Home?
For some, flying a flag in front of your home is an explicit display of your national patriotism, and for others, it's simply decorative or just a social gesture. In any case, whether you fly your country's flag, a nautical one, or that of your favorite sports team, they do add a certain je ne sais quoi to your home's curb appeal. Do you fly one?
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