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Flags of the World Quiz #5: Flags with horizontal stripes

March 25, 2016January 17, 2025 Mark Stachiew

How well do you know your international flags? All of those horizontal stripes start to look the same after a while. Try this challenging quiz

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Flags of the World Quiz #4: American overseas territories

March 18, 2016January 17, 2025 Mark Stachiew

Recognizing all 50 of America’s state flags is hard enough, but what about those from its obscure overseas territories? See how many of them you

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Flags of the World Quiz #3: Flags of the British empire

March 11, 2016January 17, 2025 Mark Stachiew

They say that the sun never set on the British empire. Reminders of that era remain on many of the world’s flags. How well do

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Flags of the World Quiz #2: Flags that look the same

March 7, 2016January 22, 2025 Mark Stachiew

When you start looking more closely at the flags of the world, you see a lot of similarities in their designs? Try this challenging quiz

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    I haven't been taking many deep-sky photos lately I haven't been taking many deep-sky photos lately because it's usually cloudy 9 days out of 10, but I tried reprocessing this photo of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) and I think it's much improved from my previous effort. What always amazes me about galaxy photos is that when you look closely, you can see other tiny galaxies photobombing the image. There are at least three others that I can see here!
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    I spotted this house finch outside my window and h I spotted this house finch outside my window and he posed long enough for me to take a photo of him. 🐦📸
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    The photons from the Whirlpool Galaxy that I captu The photons from the Whirlpool Galaxy that I captured with my Seestar left 31 million years ago, about 10 million years before the first humanids walked on Earth. The mind can't even imagine such vast numbers.
    We were at the Canadiens game last night and they We were at the Canadiens game last night and they cranked up the volume so loud that you couldn’t tell if the crowd was booing the American national anthem. After the game, as we descended into the Métro with other fans, a busker played ‘O Canada’ on his saxophone and you could hear everyone lustily singing along (en français.) #elbowsup
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