nPosted on September 28, 2019
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nThere was a national flag in Thailand for a long time. Most of them were red, and several of them included a chakra, or a picture of an elephant, or both.
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nThere was this particular flag – the current one – in Thailand for years and years. It was adopted on this date in 1917.
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nWhat there hasn’t been until recently was a holiday celebrating the flag. In time for the flag’s 100th birthday, the holiday began in 2017.
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nThe Thai flag, like so many other flags in the world, has three colors, red, white, and blue. But it isn’t considered a tricolor flag by the dictionary definitions I’ve consulted of the word tricolor, because the latter is always a triband flag, with three parallel stripes (bands) of different colors (either horizontal, like Russia’s flag, or vertical, like France’s flag).
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| Above, Russia’s flag. Below, France’s flag. |
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nThailand’s flag has five stripes; yet, Thais call it Trairanga, which means “Tricolor Flag”!
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nThe colors are supposed to stand for nation-religion-king, with red representing the land and the people, white representing religions (I guess all of them), and blue representing the monarchy.
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| Thais have a long history, rich traditions, and a strong cultural identity. Yet Thailand is a modern nation, and its capital, Bangkok, has lots of skyscrapers. |
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nAnniversary of the Norman Invasion
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nDay of Czech Statehood
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nWorld Heart Day
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nConfucius’s Birthday
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nInternational Right to Know Day
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nTeachers Day in Taiwan
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nNational Good Neighbor Day
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nMuseum Day Live
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n(4th Saturday in September)
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nWorldwide Day of Play
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n(Last Saturday in September)
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n(4th Saturday in September)
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nWorldwide Day of Play
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