Hey everybody, welcome back to flag fan Friday today molla we are in for a treat
Seriously, hope you like the malawi episode
So as you know this depart where I usually kind of talk about the extra things that didn't quite make it into the video
I know I mentioned William come qualm bow, but there's another cool inventor guy named Felix come waiting
He actually researched and built his own helicopter from scratch in his garage
It's difficult to say if he will actually test it out for real because there's so many like safety
Regulations and procedures that he must abide by but yeah
As of right now
It seems pretty functional on finally Malawi is one of the only few places with an indigenous African script the hmong leggo syllabary
Which was made in the 70s see my research it was made in
1977 in Paris by Zambian born Malawi and linguist Nolan's Moses wrong way go
he wanted to create a syllabic system that could be used between various languages of Malawi and other Bantu languages after decades of teaching and
Teaching it about ten thousand people today can write it and that's cool. Alright, so now Malawi gotta cover the flag
moving on without further ado
Some of you guys wrote some like good puns in the comments
I think one of you wrote like what's the what's Malawi's favorite gaming console the Malawi?
Anyway, let's cover the flag
The flag of Malawi is a horizontal tricolour of black red and green with a red Rising Sun centered in the upper black band
representing the dawn of hope and freedom for the continent of Africa the green represents the nature of the country the black stands for the
indigenous people of the continent and the red
it stands for
Once again, thank you Ken for making that animation follow him Ken. You've successfully avoided getting fired for another week
so in appreciation next time I will give you actual drinking water while we're on set filming instead of this picture of a cup of
Water anyway, keep in mind this flag was pretty much the flag that they use from Independence. However, funny story back in 2010
They actually briefly changed their flag to this by orders of the president
But everybody thought it kind of sucked and nobody really liked it and they're just like this is so unnecessary
So two years later the new President Joyce Banda was like, okay, we're going back to the old one
And of course prior to that, they're under various British flags as they were under the British
There was a Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
prior to that just in Yas Island
And finally the British Central African Protectorate and now the coat of arms you have the shield in the centre with the blue waves
Representing Lake Malawi lion and a Rising Sun the shield's supported on each side by a lion and a leopard with the heralds ik helmet
And wreath in front of another Rising Sun with an eagle in front of that all situated on top of a mountain
Representing mountain Boulanger the motto and the banner reading unity and freedom and that's pretty much about it
This is pretty much the only coat of arms. They've had in their history
I mean there was that Marathi Empire
But they didn't really have any specific symbols to distinguish themselves apart from the other people around them
Which means uh, yeah, we just kind of have to leave it off here. Cool
So that's done inside now, you know what time it is geography fan mail time. Alright, we got some cool things
I can't wait to show you. Let's get into it like always we start off with postcards, Pamela and Gianluca
Thank you for sending this from Valencia Declan since it's from Maine. I think your name is Nico you visited Tallinn Estonia
Sophia visited Germany, I believe this is for the day of light
Celebration thing Rob who is dutch but visited Salzburg. Ah, this is cool
Sarah and Cato visited Malta bricen who is Canadian but visited Holland Aiden from mechanic Island
Michigan Chris visit its vanetti, Georgia the country, Georgia, of course, David
Visited the Vatican getting quite a few of you guys sending me stuff from the Vatican and this is really cool
Oswald us who is a Lithuanian living in the UK visited Liberia
And he said he saw the video about Liberia and so he decided to just go there and dude
I'm glad that you just decided to go because you saw the video. That's I love encouraging you people to travel. All right
Now let's open up some letters. Okay max from Inglewood, California. You're my neighbor
first of all
You have like the best handwriting I've ever seen. He's very proud of his Mexican heritage
And the cool thing is he sent this keychain, which is of a miner's hat which represents the state of Sakha tikkas
Which has a huge mining industry out there my next up Alexander from Poland. You're probably wondering about the flag. I sent you
I'm living in the Polish part of Silesia. Ah Silesia we talked about in the Czechia episode. The culture here is different from polish
There's a different dialect and language. It goes to say sometimes Polish people don't even understand Silesia pnes. It's so cool
How sometimes you guys really like to highlight the regional areas that you guys are from and not just the country
So I keep doing that guys good for you, Chris from Ohio
I'm working on attending college next year and I plan to save up for Tokyo to go to the 2020 Olympics cool
I got you a USSR flag for the Russian flag Friday episode. Oh
Wow, Chris, I mean, I appreciate it
But I probably will not be parading down the street holding this flag anytime soon considering the fact, you know where I live
But yeah, thank you. I guess see we got Toby from Chandler Arizona and this is really cool. He sent a little booklet
Good flag bad flag and it goes into all of the explanations on what?
Categorizes as a good flag versus a bad flag. Thank so much with it. I like this. I like this man
Thanks something from Ireland. Hey bars, my name is
Pronounced oisin. I love how all you Irish people that write to me
you have to put in parenthesis how to pronounce your names just cuz it's so impossible to know right off the bat unless you actually
Know the language. I'm half Irish half New Zealand or living in kill County Kildare Island. I also visit New Zealand every three years
I sent you some stickers from souvenirs and a brigid's cross which is a symbol of Ireland
Oh, is that what this is the bridges cross? I never even heard of these but cool. It's made out of like grass reeds
That's really interesting Israel. Hey barb, it's me. And my son are huge fans of the show
We moved to Israel from Sweden and the kids are pretty much trilingual now
We have sent you a traditional
Israel independent state inflatable hammer an Independence Day people walk around with these and Bop each other on the head
I'll see Jeremy from Alabama. Hey Barb's I'm probably your oldest geography at 37
No, you're not gotten things from people that were like in their 60s and 70s
But anyway, I summed across her channel and instantly became a fan. Thank you, and he says he was recently in Cuba
He says this a das peso convertible Cuban peso banknote. All right, we got Henry who is half Hungarian?
He's a very proud of his Hungarian roots who that oh
Thank you, man. I love this. And of course just like every other Hungarian on flag Friday. You sent me paprika, dude
Look at that it even comes with a little wooden spoon. Do you guys even put in your ice cream?
I believe right this I'm half Hungarian and part Russian
My grandmother on my mom's side escaped the 1956 Hungarian Revolution while my great-grandparents
Escaped the 1918 Russian Revolution. Those great-grandparents were part of the Romanov and share msf
Families making me one of the last and young history bobbing members wait, you say you're also part of the Romanovs
no, you can't be really guess they got to make a movie about you then yen's from
Deutschland De Niro, please open before the Malta episode. Oh shoot Oh tons of candy including Maltesers
I'm yen's from Hesse Germany. Can you maybe mention the azure window in the Malta episode?
It was destroyed by a bad storm last year, but it still is an iconic image. Yeah, I've heard of that
It was kind of a sad thing because it was so iconic, right?
it was right on the ocean and finally this big box from the UK Oh
What do we got here Somaliland? Hey Barb's my name is Chris. I'm English
I'm currently living and working and studying Somali in her gaseous Somaliland. Ooh
ahh
you're the first person that sent stuff from Somali land for those who don't know Somali land is disputing its ownership and
Sovereignty with Somalia. Here's a picture of you and your future wife and your friend in this package
I've also included a Somaliland flag Somaliland currency a camel bell and his canadian friend makes these t-shirts that
promote
Somaliland for tourism cuz their chant build up their tourism
Industry and now before we move on we actually got some people who sent in letters and postcards to Ken and Keith
So we recorded them open him up. And here we go. Even when you're feeling small Oh
Tyler thank you so much Tyler. Remember you are a big deal to a whole lot of people that we got a postcard man
I heard that Paul said thank you and also take fan mails for you
So I decided send you with the coolest postcard you and Barbie Rock sincerely Ben. Thank you so much, Ben solo from
Amber toon Minnesota. Hey, Ken. Hi, I'm saalu and I'm ten years old
I always like you're super awesome animations are really good. If Barbie does fire you it would only be so bad
You seem like a real cool guy. I like those times when you're in the skits. You could act real well
I hope you have a super great day. Sincerely Sal. Oh, thank you so much Sal. Oh
Hey the pizza. I love pizza. Somebody made me this little earth
What's the flag Estonia oh, it's Dona. Okay. Somebody made me the flag with Sonja hi Keith. I am known I like when you in
Alright, thank you. Thank you. Yes. Anybody that's been featured you can send stuff in to them
You don't have to send everything in to me. Alright, so that's just about it
But before we go, you know what time it is it's time for return address contest. I put your return addresses in this bag
I pick one out and whoever wins I give a little gift to and that gift is a scratch-off map
We are collaborating with geography Frederico. He sells these on his website
So if you win you get one for free if you don't win you maybe just check out his website and just buy one all
Right, so I'm just gonna pick one out not gonna laugh like a look-see
Maria from Venezuela. You just won. What do you guys thank you guys so much for all of this
I really appreciate you guys sending in stuff to put your hometowns in your countries and your areas in the spotlight and it really kind
Of shows how the geography community is just so diverse and I think that's the coolest part about you guys
I saw just about it. Thank you for watching. You've just been flagged stay cool. Stay tuned