Everybody welcome back to flag fan Friday. I hope you liked the Malta episode
This is the first episode filmed in my brand new house. I'm still setting things up
You know, I gotta do some repainting. I hate this carpet. I got to probably take it out in a few weeks
But anyway, yeah new house a new chapter in my life, and I'm glad you get to take part of it
Anyway, this is the part where I kind of address things that didn't quite make it into the video
I really wanted to talk about the unique on Nell address has like a huge
Starched cape that goes over the head and it comes in either black or white
It's like the national dress of Malta. Like if you see that, you know, it's from Malta
Also, I did not address the fact that there was some controversy of Malta selling off Maltese passports
Apparently some super-rich people that made contributions to the country, you know, the government was able to sell them passports
But the government also says that they do like an intensive background checks and they have to have like no criminal records
But it's kind of like a source of controversy because you know passports
Also, I want to talk about the cart tracks or the cart ruts
These are grooves that are supposedly formed by the wooden wheeled carts that eroded soft limestone at the time
Anyway, there's a lot of other things we could have talked about
but we don't have time and if you have anything you want to say just write in the comments teach us the meantime we gotta
Get down to the flag. So without further ado
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Malta is so strange
I mean
it's like the speaker language is kind of like a mix between
Italian and Arabic and yet they drive on the left side of the road and their flag has some cool stuff on it - first
Of all the flag is a vertical by color of white and red in the upper left hand or high side of the white band
lies the George Cross as the story goes the colors were given to the country from Norman count Roger the first of Sicily in
1090 upon his conquest for the Normans. Nobody knows exactly how the colors came to be
But it is widely accepted that they came from the former flag of the Knights of Malta
which do not confuse it with the flag of Denmark as for the George Cross it wasn't added until
1943 after the entire country was awarded the George Cross of war the UK's second most honorable award after the Victoria Cross as it means
To thank them for their service and wartime after independence. They still kept the cross on their flag
And if you don't know what's on it
It's basically a depiction of Saint George and his legendary fight against a dragon as well as the words for gallantry
Emblazoned at the bottom. Keep in mind you might also see this flag alot in Malta
It's like a variant flag that has the Maltese Cross and of course as a former British colony
They used the other former British colony flags and prior to that there under the Sovereign Military Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
Rhodes and Malta that's a whole other separate thing and they had that flag, which is totally the knot Denmark flag
So yeah, that's about it moving on the coat of arms pretty simple
It's a shield with the Maltese flag colors and cross on it on top is a mural crown with five turrets
Which symbolized the fort's that were built around the country around the shield is a wreath of palm and olive
Branches traditional symbols of peace, whereas if the bottom lies a white banner reading república, the Malta or Republic of Malta
Of course prior to this coat of arms and a bunch of other coat of arms under British rule
You could see them on the form of flags and pretty much before that
They just kind of use the coat of arms of the UK and all its variants throughout time. So yeah, that's just about it
We do have jockey fan mail time
However, I actually opened up a bunch of packages and pre-recorded it before I moved into this house
So let's go back to my old place one more time. Shall we? All right pre-recorded footage isn't this great? Let's jump into it
so as you know, we always start off with
Postcards and we have a ton of them right now
So I'm just gonna have to lightning-round go through them one by one. I think your name is rule
Thank you for these postcards from Finland Elias visited Ljubljana, Slovenia
lisandro from Argentina visited Georgia Issac visited the spam museum in Minnesota
Gustav from the blue maiden island in Sweden. This is cool. Lucy visited the Seychelles France from st. Mary's, Georgia
Oh and rope also sent another card from Finland. Ah, DJ visited Greenland. We'll be at a good time
I love Greenland. When I visited Mary from Wales and Aldo sent this cool holographic postcard from Paris
Coby visited Trinity College in Ireland, huh?
Rachel also visited Georgia Jonathon visited the Faroe Islands Federico visited Ljubljana again
Slovenia varas from Indonesia Sean from Milwaukee will from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Paul from Ireland visited boggles you France Luke
I visited Glacier National Park William visited Hawaii Nolan visited all these places in the Agra Falls
Ohio Marc from New Jersey Zach from Illinois visited all these countries and places Berlin, Germany
Austria listen Stein Armin visited Iceland is the European Parliament in Brussels Belgium
Thank you. Daphne. Finally read visited Saint Maarten Island, you go to the French side of the Dutch side letters
Brandon from Ireland he sent these old Irish coins back before they used the euro. They used the Irish pound
Garrett from New Brunswick
He drew this really cool map of New Brunswick Nicola and Elena from the country
That shall not be named until the dispute is completely voted on by this October. So cool
Thanks for drawing the logo and sending these dinars Josh from the UK made this really cool
Europe flag map Sasha from Orange County, California
She visited the Cayman Islands the necklace you sent me it broke off into a few pieces
He came in Islands currency banknotes
They actually had their own separate division apart from the British Pound some of from Indonesia
Geography now and Barbie in the ancient Javanese script. That is so cool
She also Julie autumn autumn which is a traditional snack cymbalta nasi ever sent a bunch of check
Bookmarks that I can share with my friends. Thank you. It's really cool Ruben from Texas and he's Mexican American super awesome cartoon art
He drew me and all the other guys of geography now. Alright
Boxes, my name is Julia. I'm from Denmark. But my mother is Spanish and I'm currently living in the UK
Okay, so obviously she sends a Danish flag, but also some four jars of Marmite guys
I love Marmite, but I have too much now
I haven't even finished like the first 50 jars you guys have sent me my next up Jess from Iowa
She says her students from Elle subdural. Guatemala said the videos were pretty accurate
No, she sends a ton of postcards of places all over including Iowa and I think, Missouri
Nathan from Scotland
He drew an entire country balls pulling ball map where she's proud of his Scottish heritage
We got Scotland and there's a Ben Nevis. It's a Nessie the Loch Ness monster
Teaching levain from Florida. He said he wants to be a civil engineer
What is this Oh City of Jacksonville, Florida shirt
No. All right. There you go. He sends the flag of now see Luke, who is from Massachusetts?
But he is Finnish American Sami hockey
There's thing. I love saw Miyake ice cream, but you just can't find it here and I wish they had it in America
I will literally fly back to Finland someday just to get this ami Aki ice cream. Like I won't even do anything else
I will just get the ice cream Giorgio from Romania. I love how your letter has a lot of Romanian flag stuff on it
I'm sorry, your name is Romulus. I misread your name. Will you ever visit Romania?
I absolutely would love to someday if plans allow me to I would love to seems like the National chocolates of Romania
Joshua who is Mexican but visited South Africa. Whoa, he did a little mini globe painting, dude
You are a super talented man. Beautiful beautiful. I will probably put this on my desk another thing from the UK
My name is Matthew
I'm from Woking ting a small town on the west coast of Cumbria and then true north of England
It is known for its Lake District and crazy beautiful areas or fells Mountains
So they also have their own dialect and they have their own words
And of course he sings the flag
Like I've never even really heard too much about this place why I love it when you guys highlight it for me
So the whole world can see it on this show Jonathan from Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm Jonathan. I'm a huge fan of the show
Thank you. I started a geography Club. We even have t-shirts. It definitely won't fit you though
Oh, yeah, this is a little too big is like extra large or something countries may have borders, but your knowledge doesn't
Oh, wow, we have another one from Romania. We have a lot of Romanian subscribers. My name is Roz bond Romania soccer/football
Scarf historical flag of Transylvania from Israel. Your name is Roy Israeli new shekel
No shocker I've gotten this many times Bamba. Yeah, Bamba
These are like flavored wheat twists Jamie from Florida. Oh my gosh. She's beautiful postcards Oh Pete
Doggone thick you guys don't know anything about Mexican candy. I love it because they use. Uh, what do you call it?
Uh chamoy sweet spice on it. They put spice on their candies
Oh we have another Mexican Alan who is specifically from the Chihuahua state and he also says a
Jersey this is the last season jersey of water as FC also known as the bro
Yes, it's size medium. It fits me
Alright Quadra is FC two flags of chihuahua Pino Lita's cookies
And it's a boat a bit chihuahua. This is a sick-out the race. It's like beef jerky. But Chihuahua style Alan
I cannot wait for the Mexico episode as you know, I live in Los Angeles tons of Mexican culture out here
I was hoping to have my friend Cesar from predator biota to come over and be in the episode
We'll see what we can do. But yeah Mexico, it's gonna be a huge episode just wait finally
There's one last package James from Pennsylvania and looking at the package it is sent from the Hershey's
Corporation it Barb's how you doing?
I decided I want to send you the most well-known
Candy from my parts of the world of Hershey's I got in the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania where they are produced
I'm pretty sure many of you across the world already know that Hershey's is like probably the most popular chocolate brand in the u.s
Me personally, I'm not a huge fan of Hershey's. I'm sorry, but I appreciate you know, the patriotic appeal. Oh my gosh. Oh
This cheese chocolate bars and chocolate kisses and Hershey's Chevy pickup truck not made of chocolate
It's just like a little Hot Wheels car
So James, usually I share, you know, all the snacks and stuff that I get on the show with you know
Keith or Canon Noah, but this time I think I'm gonna give these to the post office people that help me out
They work really hard. They've dealt with me so many times chairing all these crazy packages. I really appreciate them
So I'm gonna give these to the people at the post office. Alright, so that is just about it
But you know what time it is return address contest. I put all your addresses in this bag
I take one out and whoever wins gets a free scratch-off map
These are sponsored to us from Java people Frederico who sells them on his website
Go to this link right here. If you don't wait, you can buy one
all right, I'm gonna pick one out just gonna pick one out without
Christina from Panama you just won. Okay. So this was great. This was fun
I love putting stuff that you send on display to put your hometowns at home countries in the spotlight
This was an interesting period quarter footage that I filmed with my moves, but in the meantime, thank you guys
Yeah, you've just been flagged stay cool. Stay tuned