On 27/01/2011 21:35, John Pickard wrote:
Good morning again Roger.
You asked "I have learned a lesson on whom we should trust as a data
source. Wiki or the CIA?"
The answer is obvious! Neither. Trust WikiLeaks, after all several
governments are embarrassed about having their pants down around their
ankles.
More seriously, each nation usually has some sort of official
description of its national symbols (see the Australian example in my
earlier post). I'd be surprised if Brazil didn't also have such a
site. All we need is for someone who reads Brazilian Portuguese to
find it and translate it for us.
Cheers, John
John Pickard
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Mostly this has already been done by the hundreds of volunteers who
submit information to Flags of the World, many of whom attend the
International Congress of Vexillology each year.
See, for example, http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pt.html
I would also trust Graham Bartram's World Flag Database for current
national flags. Watch out for the animated adverts though :-) He was
responsible, inter alia, for the national flags at the medal
presentations of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
See, for example, http://www.flags.net/PORT.htm
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Richard Mallett
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South Beds. UK
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