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Dr. Sheldon Cooper (Physicist), a character on the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", portrayed by Jim Parsons, who started his own video podcast called Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun With Flags as seen in "The Beta Test Initiation".


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Flag of Lord Howe Island

The unofficial flag of Lord Howe Island, which was designed by Sydney-based vexillologist John Vaughan, was first flown in November 1998.

Monarchy New Zealand

Founding members included Professor Noel Cox (later a long-term Chairman of the organisation) and his brother, Auckland lawyer and vexillolographer John Cox, who later founded the New Zealand Flag Institute.

White flag

In conventional vexillology, a white flag is linked to surrender, a reference to the Biblical description Jesus' non-violence and surrender to God's will.

Whitney Smith

Smith worked with Klaes Sierksma to organize the First International Congress of Vexillology (Muiderberg, Netherlands) in 1965.


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