Hey, Geograpeeps, welcome back to Flag/Fan Friday
I hope you like the Iran episode. Alright so very quickly, one thing I got kind of wrong in the episode
was the Armenian monastic ensembles of Iran. I accidentally used this picture.
However I believe this is the correct image?
You have to admit they look pretty freaking similar though like they both are built on a cliff
with two conical steeples and one big one small.
Oh, and when I wrote this script,
I didn't even realize but I didn't even mention any notable people from Iran, like I usually do.
It's just blew pathway froop 'I didn't realize it'.
So very quickly here are just a few notable people from Iran:
King Cyrus, Xerxes, Zoroaster, Poets Ferdowsi and Attar of Nishapur,
Ulugh Beg, Graphic Novelist Marjane Satrapi
who made that really cool Persepolis comic and movie
Mandana Karimi, Sahab Hosseini,
and gold Medalist Hadi Saei.
And of course there's a lot more, but we don't really have too much time to get into that
because this is Flag Friday. We got to talk about the flag which by the way,
I think you're going to like this episode because I (hehe), you know why? Alright, without further ado...
Alright. The flag of Iran is pretty cool
because it kind of has like a lot of hidden messages in it. First of all,
The flag is a horizontal tricolour of green white and red with the National Emblem in the center.
The green stands for Culture Growth, Happiness, Unity, Nature, and the Persian language.
The white stands for freedom
and the red staaaaaaaaaaaaands
for
Once again, thank you, Ken for making that animation. By the way guys, you can check him out on Instagram.
He has an Istagram. He has a lot of cool stuff on it.
Now here's where things get a little technical.
You can see that on the central facing edges of both the green and red bars is a pattern looking thing.
Those are actually the words 'allahu akbar' written in the stylized kufic script eleven times on each side
making it 22 times repeated to represent
the 22nd of the month of Bahman in the Iranian calendar
which landed on the 11th of February of 1979
which marked the beginning of the Islamic Republic.
In the middle lies the National Emblem or the Tawhid,
a stylized symmetrical composition of images that looks like a crescent and swords.
However, they are actually letters forming an overlapping monogram of the Shahada
which is the universal declaration of Islam meaning there is no God
except for allah all shaped in the form of a tulip looking image.
So basically they mashed a bunch of letters together to say something
kind of like the Louis Vuitton logo or Chanel or Gucci or or the Geography Now logo.
Now just keep in mind, these images are actually relatively tecent in contrast to Iran history and other variants in the past.
During the Achaemenid Empire, they used the Shabazz Falcon
and during the modern era between the 16th and 20th centuries, they used variants of lions on their emblems
and finally during the last imperial state, they used the sovereign coat of arms which looked like this.
Under the Shah times until he was deposed and the revolution began.
And that's about it. We don't have to do a coat of arms section because the emblem is kind of what they use, so yeah.
We just killed two birds with one stone, WooHoo minimal effort! Which means you know what time it is?
Geogra-Fanmail Time!
Now here's the thing, ever since I mentioned that I was going to go to Canada before this year is over for the
150th anniversary thing, I've been getting an influx of
Canadian mail all the way to the point where now I have a separate Canadian pile
So let's just get the Canada stuff over with first ok got two postcards one from New Brunswick
and one from Prince Rupert Island from Felix
and what's your name chip is Key and
Colton and Justin sent me these Canada park passes in the Canada 150 Pamphlet, so thank you guys Canadians
You don't have to send these to me anymore. I have like four of them
I'd only need one seth thank you for sending this stuff from winnipeg Winnipeg is kind of like Canada's murder Capitol in
2017 they had
six homicides
Alex from British Columbia one of these big arrow chocolate bars and finally this box from Eli from
Langley in also British Columbia he sends a flag of Northern Ireland another flag of British Columbia is cool
A flag of Nunavut so yeah, I'm really sorry Eli I don't drink pop. I call it pop
I don't call it soda. I should probably actually I should probably record teeth-like drinking this
What do you guys think should I record Keith alright? So that was all the Canadian stuff?
Let's now move on to the other stuff cave rats moose from Sweden, okay. You're from Sweden
But you send me an estonian flag estonian Gummy Candy
Okay barbets both me my younger brother really like your channel even though. We live in Stockholm, Sweden
We are also half Estonian that makes sense also, estonia makes the best candy in the world
Thanks guys Erik from Eureka, California. Sent a ton of origami. You wrote geography now
My name in Japanese, and my name in Chinese. I know this one. It's a foul rule right, okay?
This was a little weird like two of you have sent me clay figurines each from South Carolina
Sent me these logan from Michigan tries to send a lemur but unfortunately it broke okay now
Here's the deal the post office said I got some letters
But they were ripped and destroyed because they had coins in them guys
I really do appreciate it, but it's it will rip it's happened before just just a little heads up, but yeah
Thank you, Coleman. I have never had a liberty coin. I knew the us made these, but yeah, it's wow
I've never seen one of these before in real life that is so cool
Thanks, man, but this is probably what ripped up your envelope man you put this big heavy coin in here
It is pretty cool Jacob from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
really like studying North Korea, Navin sent this North Korean Banknote Isaac from Green Bay
Wisconsin is Lebanese American and he sent a bunch of recipes for Lebanese food Tyler when from Nevada
Sent this really cool comic. I actually read it and it's kind of funny. Thank you postcard from Matt from Dublin yeah, heritage trip
I'm going to Dublin with my mom
So if you're free ah maybe we can meet up this is from Philip from wrong funny
You didn't matt you didn't even write to me in French
You everything was written in English by the way you have really really good handwriting
That is really cool Philly's actually used to live in Italia for a little bit
And he brought back these really cool banknotes from Mauritania. I've never seen a more Italian banknote
That's so cool. Man speaking of Europe lily from Germany
she sends his flag from the buddhist lunch with V Josh stein in the north of Germany and ah
Marzipan chocolate
You know Marzipan is my weakness. Oh wow and she sent a bunch of these old german marked coins from before the euro
Oh dude, nineteen fifty. Thanks lily
Thank you kid from London England who visited the isles of scilly and sent these cool postcards in his pamphlet and finally I got this
Package from Jess from Adelaide Australia, okay guys if you don't just is one of my original subscribers, I remember her
She was there since the very beginning just before I can open it
I just want to say I really appreciate how long you've been subscribed
And how long you've been following geography now for all these years all right? Wow wow wow australian, wool socks
Oh, do they got little koalas on them. I'm not even a hesitate. I'm just gonna put them on now all right
Yeah, very light material. It's wool, but it's so light. Oh my gosh. You said all these australian
coasters the Kangaroo inu
Koalas has minion devils wombats and echidna these really cool postcards this Australia tea towel
What there's like everything Australia on and this is I don't even want to use this as a towel
I just want to use this as like a poster here put another shrimp on the barbie
And you're the australian one making the joke so it's not on me. It's on you
Hope you remember who I am it's just yes
I do remember
You're arguably my favourite Youtuber and I have learned so much from your videos your wacky sense of humor never fails to Crack me up
Jess this is
Your awesome jess you're just so awesome try. So this is really fun, but you know what time it is
It's time for return address contest
I put all of your return addresses into this bag and I pick one out and whoever wins I get to send a little gift
Too so here we go not going to look nothing look just gonna pick one
Eric Ismail from Bandung, Indonesia
Yes, you just won. Okay guys, so this was really fun. Just thank you so much for interacting with me
It's so cool to put your countries on display, and yeah, stay tuned next week Iraq will be up stay cool stay tuned
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