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Roman Mars on city flags

I used to love TED Talks, and would watch each one religiously as it was posted. With the spread of TedX, though, and regional conferences posting every one of their speakers’ talks, the quality has diminished to the point where I don’t bother clicking, because I don’t want to spend 5 minutes determining if this […]

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First Navy Jack – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Navy_Jack I didn’t hear about the Navy’s 2002 switch of flags back to the famous Navy Jack. Apparently it will remain the flag of choice “until the end of the War on Terror,” so I’ve obviously got many, many years of apostrophe-omission twitching to come.

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