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Vexillology (FLAGS) with E. Tory Laitila

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Only Flag With a Triskel

The Isle of Man's flag is red with three armored night's legs smack in the middle, just like a wheel of disembodied legs that have found each other. Sicily's flag is the same leg configuration, but naked and with a face in the middle that looks like if Barbie got stoned and went to Olive Garden. You thought flags were boring, didn't you? Hell no. People light them on fire. They die for them. So many of you wanted to know why they even exist. Was there a specific moment when flags became a thing for every country?

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