everybody welcome back to flag / fan
Friday I hope you like the Panama
episode oh I ate so much I feel so full
anyway
as you know there's the part where we
talk about the small mistakes we made in
the video or the parts that didn't quite
make it into the video for one it's part
of crystal ball not part of cologne but
it's by the town of Cologne a also in
the political animation the Sun was
rising in the West and setting in the
East but you get the point one thing we
didn't talk too much about were the
tensions between the Americans and the
Panamanians during the 1800s 1900s I
mean obviously if a part of your country
is kind of under the sovereign zone of
another country it's gonna it's kind of
inevitable it all kind of started when
that railroad was built in fact there
was even an event called the watermelon
war in which an entire riot was started
over a slice of watermelon look it up
and we did mention that they're pretty
close with Costa Rica however they did
have a war with Costa Rica and 20s
called the cult or war it was basically
over the border also quite violent used
to have a prison on it we did mention it
but we didn't really talk too much about
it some people estimate that during the
time when the French attempted to make
the canal about 20,000 people alone died
and when the US was involved in the
early 20th century somewhere around
5,000 to 6,000 most of these people died
from disease and the heat and the
conditions it was pretty brutal a lot of
you guys also kind of wish that we put
this song Panama by Van Halen in there
plus it would have been great for Keith
to mention it yeah I just kind of forgot
I did not mention the fact that Panama
City is the only capital city in the
world with a rainforest within their
city limits we didn't talk too much
about the festivals they have they have
so many of them
and finally Panama is one of the
countries that does not have an army all
right so that's just about it and now we
go to the flag so without further adieu
you know he was so hard to come up with
bad puns for Panama the best I could
come up with was pandemonium and
panamania acts anyway we're supposed to
teach geography not wordplay the flag
the flag of Panama known as the Stars
and quarters is a banner divided into
four rectangles with diagonally opposing
blue and red stars on white fields and
solid blue and red fields in the others
these quadrants symbolize the rival
political parties blue for conservatives
and red for liberals whereas the white
is set to stand for the Peace of the
nation and the peace between both
parties
on another note blue is also said to
stand for purity and honesty whereas the
red stands for the authority and law of
the country
the stars also stand for the birth of
the New Republic now keep in mind prior
to this there was actually another
proposed flag that never kicked off the
buna vitória flag it was inspired off of
the American flag you know had 13
stripes they're blue and yellow
representing the ties to Colombia and
Spain and in the upper hoist side they
had a blue field with two interconnected
Suns it represented the role that Panama
played in connecting north and south
america yeah it was rejected and they
made the other one and of course also
keep in mind that when they are under
grande Colombia they were under a
department known as East mall it
actually contained a coast further up
north that extended all the way to
Nicaragua and prior to that they're
obviously under the Spanish Empire right
so that's that now the coat of arms the
coat of arms is pretty cool it contains
a lot of imagery in the center lies a
shield divided into five sections on the
top left lies a saber and rifle to
symbolize the remembrance of battles and
to never again seek Civil War juxtaposed
to the left on the next section
containing a shovel and grub symbolizing
the work of the nation on the bottom
left of the shield lies the cornucopia
symbolizing wealth next to the final
quadrant a winged wheel symbolizing
progress in the center of the shield
lies a panorama of the Isthmus situated
on both coasts of the Pacific and the
Caribbean Atlantic with a Sun and Moon
symbolizing the day and hour of
Independence on the sides of the shield
are four draped Panamanian flags all
below a harpy eagle the national animal
holding a banner reading in Latin Pro
Mundi beneficio which means for the
benefit of the world on top of the eagle
lies the 10 stars symbolizing the 10
provinces of the nation now keep in mind
the coat of arms was made in 1904 our
for the longest time the eagle on the
coat of arms was just labeled as an
eagle without a specified species
finally they made the harpy eagle the
official animal in 2002 and in 2006 they
officially labeled the eagle on the seal
a harpy eagle so yeah and that is just
about it so you know what that means
it's time for words Agra fan mail time
alright welcome back to geography fan
mail time as you know we always have to
have a guest star or two so welcome back
no man happened okay
as you guys know we always start off
with postcards oh by the way guys
today's helper is Lorenzo what's up so I
guess I'll go first
clémence from PA and he sends this from
Niagara fall I think your name is Laird
la IRD yeah he's from San Diego but
visited Andorra here we have a lovely
postcard from hati's who is from
Malaysia I got this here postcard hello
I'm Brandon and it's a u.s. postage 50th
anniversary Devil's Tower National
Monument postcard so Sebastian from
Chile sent this postcard from
coincidentally Chile we have a fantastic
postcard from yarn from Poland that they
are visiting at Montenegro so Ashley
sends us this postcard from New Orleans
she's half brazilian in half Cajun
that's pretty cool I guess it's kinda
like me in a certain sense here's a
awesome recipe for seafood gumbo all
right we have a postcard from Tim and
Amy from Pennsylvania
they visited sterling of Scotland on
their honeymoon you can always tell it's
from Portugal because they always do the
cork postcards Lisa and Sasha from
Russia visited Portugal all right so we
got this here postcard from st.
Petersburg Russia from Elsa amar from
Indonesia living in Norway sends us this
postcard from Denmark all right here we
have not one not two but three postcards
from Edward from the UK
he is from Oxford the other two are from
his holiday and Hungary in Austria
Samuel gives us his best wishes from
gran canaria all right and finally we
have this postcard oh so you did not
write your name you visited la mala
which is in the Palestinian area the
West Bank all that so cool so now let's
just start opening the letters this
letter is from Jayden from Grand Rapids
Michigan
born in Wales Tom pardon Welsh bottom
part in English and he still speaks it
fluently so good for you man keeping it
alive keep that Welsh language alive I
wanna be the very best like no one ever
was Andrew and in Vienna is no letter
just Pokemon carts I choose you
Jigglypuff I choose you side duckin and
that thank you
why did you send pokemon cards I don't
know but okay
Angelica from Boynton Beach Florida your
state yes go Gators go Hurricanes go
dolphins although you're saying go
Hurricanes cuz you like hurricanes yeah
go natural disasters um so anyways she
sends us ooh
Florida environmental magazine just so
you want to make sure that the sea
turtles are still alive even though
they're gonna go extinct at some point
just like everything on this planet you
know who this beautiful Palm Beach
magnet oh and then it looks like I don't
know what this is but I'm assuming it's
a dreamcatcher maybe and then here's
this thing whatever this thing is keys
how do you feel when you bump into other
people from Florida I would say that
everybody's uh traumatized to the heat
and the humidity so it's just like is
the Florida man thing true oh yeah dude
I mean look at me I'm Florida man what's
the Florida main thing
so type in any date almost a man chances
are someone from Florida did something
crazy I love many people from Iowa
grandidis cool uh Midwest camaraderie
I'd say I gave my well you have my one
what's the first thing you guys talk
about I usually ask him like where we're
from
alright here we have some stuff from
Marty in Germany he's a student in
Germany they like our videos they have
helped them a lot yeah they sent us some
pages it's kind of show us what their
textbook looks like for their class are
you trying to send this your homework or
something cuz we're not gonna do it for
you I'm done with school I'm glad I'm
not in school anyone ever go back no I'm
good Hauser's anything Oh nope I'm done
not I want to go back Keith what school
yeah dude schools for fools some people
might say differently it's dude I mean
I'm educated and Here I am teaching
millions of people about geography you
could be a teacher
any subject what would you teach lunch
yeah a whole semester dedicated to pizza
I mean you have to have the the proper
pizza folding technique class I like it
I threw up so hard and Ethiopia cuz I
ate raw beef that was a
decision I made cuz I'm like it's worth
it I tried it that was actually right
before I did the geography in Somalia
yeah anyway um so we got this from acos
I think that's your name
AKO s from hungary you also show how the
hungarian way of writing the dates
versus the American Way Hungarian
forints
alright so Jaron from the Philippines oh
snap this is a candy bar to Barb's and
Barb's mom to dear Paul you know are you
taking oh well you realize well your
turn to read oh my gosh I'll open it up
introduce oh my babies you know I'm not
educated hi it's me again
so I'm give you some coins hey old
Philippine ten peso note in World War
two oh my gosh it says Japanese
government cuz Philippines used to be
under Japan alright I have got here a
letter from Kevin who is from Dallas
Texas also he's giving us this comic
book that isn't read anymore Thank You
Kevin I love comic books can you guys
name all these characters on here is
that a girl Green Lantern what I did
Jessica gross well he's new she's one of
the new ones her ring came from a green
lantern from an alternate reality yeah
this is totally Noah stuff so we got
this guy Austin he's from Minnesota but
he did this thing called semester abroad
it's on a cruise ship and he traveled
the world to I think 11 different
countries and he got this Cambodian Riel
banknote from I'm sorry I messed your
name up but you on from Taiwan you
recently paid a visit to LAN you okay
Orchid Island or Ponzo um he says here
the postcard depicts just yes photos of
the villagers I'm holding the ceremony
in sitala
the key chains attached a small replica
of Tattaglia potala all right I got this
quick letter Daniel from Georgia
he sent a box of onions I couldn't bring
it because it was sent a long time ago
there they are Vidalia onions that can
only be grown in a small area near
Vidalia Georgia and it is the official
vegetable of the state of Georgia in the
USA oh man
growing up I'd eat all kinds of
daily onions yeah we are they yeah yeah
they're super sweet onion you ever see
holes with them yeah that what he's
eating in that movie Shia LaBeouf Shia
LaBeouf yeah he's there's a part where
he's like I don't know yeah onions I
forgot to tell you Keith by the way last
week somebody visited Namibia and got
you this job oh this is pretty dumb
actually the renzo here the drummer of
the group do you do something so we're
all free packages the first one Doug
from Canada Calgary and uh yeah cuz he's
from Calgary since this magnet Keith
from Australia yeah sends us what's up
Keith he sends us this stuff from Papua
New Guinea some pictures and he also
sends us this really sweet bag thing his
name is Bartek he's from Poland and more
precisely the region called Silesia
Silesia that was in our Czech Republic
episode he sent oh you're the guy that
sent the globe of Poland I remember that
I gave that to my friend art cuz he's
part polish and he also sent some
Celestion candies these are specifically
Celestion candies alright carob nut
Caleb no I
name's Noah thank you I just spent ten
days in Africa with Kerala I'm so used
to it sorry last package what is no
awesome mean I'm saying that I'm used to
being around Caleb yeah you got the last
pack oh yeah I saved my sorry
so does Hello Barbie Keith Noah Hanna
and can everybody my name is elke Warren
it means to live in Sweden so in this
parcel they've included a huge Swedish
flag Indonesian crew pup gang are oh
these are Swedish candies I think you
made a movie called shark Odyssey the
Sharks make contact
is it like sharknado I hope it's like
shocking you know you have to watch her
to find out well um I was stupid and I
didn't bring the return address contest
bag again so we're just gonna have to do
it at my place
in the meantime any last words you want
to say to the geography
thank you so much for sending all the
stuff that you guys send us likewise
thank you guys so much for subscribing
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checking it out
alright and it is time for return
address contest as you know I put all
your return addresses in this bag I pick
one out and whoever win
gets a geography now notepad and button
you can also get jacket now shirts at
geography now calm alright so let's just
pick one now pick one out Maria from
Germany you just one and that's just
about it thank you for watching you've
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