“People who enjoy waving flags don’t deserve to have one”*…
Every self-respecting country has a unique name, a national flag, an anthem, a coat of arms, banknotes, passports, letterhead, and stationery. Newly formed countries have to design them.
From Anne Quito, the story of South Sudan’s development of an “identity package”: “Branding the World’s Newest Country.”
* Banksy, Wall and Piece
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As we salute, we might recall that it was on this date in 1325 (according to legend) that Tenochtitlan was founded. Located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico, it became the capital of the expanding Aztec Empire in the 15th century, until captured by the Spanish in in the early 16th century. At its peak, it was the largest city in the Pre-Columbian Americas. Today the ruins of Tenochtitlan are located in central Mexico City.
Reconstruction of Tenochtitlan. (National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico City)