everybody welcome back to flag / fan
Friday hope you like the Oman episode so
as you know there's a part where I talk
about the small mistakes we made in the
video or I talk about the things that
didn't quite make it into the video we
accidentally misspelled the word poisons
that place in the desert that has
quicksand and we were talking about the
Strait of Hormuz I forgot to label the
other part of the strait the Gulf of
Oman
I also mispronounced I love Fisher be
honest though I kind of don't really
know who that is I vaguely heard her
name in passing sorry I don't you don't
actually let's look her up let's see she
was in scooby-doo and she married Sacha
Baron Cohen all the Borat guy she
married him and had three kids with him
okay cool yeah well I didn't know that
okay now I know and some things we
didn't have time to mention in the video
include things like the fact that the
country is kind of very open and
tolerant relatively compared to their
neighbors but they do kind of have some
controversial ways of running their
nation the freedom of press and
expression is limited to some degree you
definitely cannot insult the Sultan and
the government can kind of censor
anything that they deem is too offensive
going on protests in Oman and some other
countries in the area is also very
interesting because holding protest
signs could get you in trouble so what
some people do is they hold the protest
signs on donkeys because the police
can't arrest donkeys I forgot to mention
that
Oman does have some pink lakes due to
the algae and bacteria that are found in
the lakes they are famous for a world
renowned Book Fair especially known
throughout the Arab world and also Oman
is famous for the purebred Arabic horse
according to legend King Solomon gave an
Arab tribe a specific horse and
supposedly all Arabic purebred horses
are descended from this one horse and
that's just about it for me if you know
anything else put it in the comments
otherwise we got to move on flag time so
without further ado you you know it's
funny in the video we nicknamed Oman the
grandma of the Arab world and a lot of
you guys from Europe especially like
Germany and the Netherlands you're like
ah that's a very fitting name because in
German or Dutch you know grandma is OMA
so Oman never really thought of that
that's cool
anyway the flag the flag is actually a
full red banner with added white and
green bands extending three quarters
from the right side in on the top left
heist you have the national emblem badge
of the algo Sayyidi dynasty it depicts
cross swords over a Hans are the
National curved dagger we will talk
about this later
the white color has historically been
tied to the Imam or religious leader of
Oman whom has at certain times also been
a political rival to the ruling salt
it also symbolizes peace the green color
refers to the Jabal al Akhtar or green
mountains which lie toward the north of
the country as well as the general
agriculture and plant life found in the
few semi-arid regions finally the red
color is a common color throughout the
region meaning many things and often
representing the battles fought for the
nation which could also mean Thank You
Jared for making that animation now keep
in mind prior to this Oman was kind of
led by two leading factions the Sultan
and the Imam it which was kind of like a
constituent part of the country each had
their own Flags the Sultan one was just
a red banner and the imamat was a white
one with the Han jar in the top
eventually over time they just kind of
like fuse the two and then added the
green for balance and then BAM the
current flag of Oman which brings us to
the emblem the emblem of Oman contains a
honge are the traditional curved dagger
in a sheath on a horse bit belt link and
the two crossed traditional swords
behind it I believe they are either
called scythe or katana this is not only
the national emblem but also the royal
crest of the al-saeed dynasty
traditionally the blade was used for a
variety of things like defense and
fights and skinning animals all the way
to cutting ropes but today it is mostly
only worn traditionally in ceremonies
and makes a popular souvenir for
visitors yeah they may create souvenirs
but TSA just kind of hates going through
your check back to your countries and
they pretty much did not have any other
coat of arms before this this is just
kind of what stuck with them ever since
the al-sayeed dynasty that's just about
it which means now it is time for
geography and mail time
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all right welcome back we're gonna do it
here in the studio again and as you know
we always have to have guest star so
welcome back Hannah
Noah and Keith so I like camouflage in
with the wait maybe you should switch
because your shirt is why yours is why
in kind of contrast the opposites then
my you will see my face alright so as
you guys know we always start off with
postcards reading from farmville
Virginia this one is from M yeah
remember farmville well by the way
Elbert is no renzo okay fell on the
floor
hello I've been visiting I can't read
cursive what's the name
hey what's up my name is Bjorn from
Norway and Bjorn sends us a postcard
from Norway him who is from Thailand
says sawatdee-kah
barbs and crew he's originally from
Oregon but he's a teacher in Thailand
right now from sarena visited Skopje I'm
going to travel somewhere cool and send
a postcard to myself and read it
straight games like writing I'll write
one to you guys I family okay alright we
have a very cool salvadore postcard here
says here the hey Barbie a team
citations from Brazil me and my buddy
Ben are from Vancouver and there are
currently backpacking through South
Africa where my ancestors came from okay
well actually um fun fact my great
grandmother was featured in newspaper
idea who she was
well basically she was one of the last
people that like cross through Ellis
Island and so she got featured oh the
newspaper
this is from Luke in gold shots a
postcard from Hamburg and Berger Germany
Sam
what wind chime and he's a huge
fan of the channel he says hi to
everybody
I think your name is Damian you visited
Malta if your firm also sent twisties
from country from Yogyakarta Indonesia
an actual geography that we met ah
that's awesome
basically Jenny your awesome who is also
in the Norway video yes she is
she sends us a postcard from Swaziland
they're now known as a SWOT tini so
thank you so much for sending us this
card and thanks for being on the show
and all that stuff you're awesome Hans
from China says he says I'm watching you
from Jack who is from State College
Pennsylvania it's a vintage postcard all
right gotta slow see a postcard from
Estelle a French Caribbean subscriber
since the AFE episode a times the
postcard here from Mount Saint Michael
alright so that's all postcards now we
do letters and packages so let's jump
into it uh this is from the UK two books
so this is from Rami and he sent his I
guess these are your old university
textbooks you are studying anthropology
currently at university hey random
Android he drew us so he actually drew
us and there's also a henna on the back
alright you're from Israel since us it's
awesome kebab recipe and he wrote some
funny jokes on the back and we say very
inappropriate joke yeah you're like top
destination to go is actually yes I want
to go there on our honeymoon okay so max
Russia tennis this like cookie thing my
Bob with some ears and a hole on it
I don't know so he says the gingerbread
cookie has a picture of the salty ears
monument which is the monument of where
he's from Perm Russia
brettly's burn Russia is famous for
selenite my great perm heritage you get
a postcard
Serbia with Dario and his wife niega a
father episodes they are from song boy
he is actually a professor of geography
you know said let him know alright got
one last package this is from John who
lives in South Korea nice it is a book
Korean book on geography ok cool how
thing actually he is a teacher and his
students actually also wrote to me China
and kodachi she Chitty Hoggart washy
juuhachi on ji Mong young young son
would get Jimmy Sumida I read Korean so
long I was able to say basically he says
didn't usually like geography but your
channel made me like geography so yeah
yeh I guess that's it yeah we were
supposed to do return address contest
but I forgot to bring the return
addresses so we'll just quickly go back
to my place and do it all right back
here I got the return address contest
bag so you know the deal all your return
addresses are in this bag I pick a
winner and whoever wins gets a Johnny
for now notepad and button alright and
here we go
Roberta from Argentina
you just won but in the meantime I need
you guys have any last words for the
geography thanks for watching the show
you guys are awesome we love you no I
don't
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