SarahKB7 Koskinen

Silly Symphony

Five new regions have been added to the inworld map, at the northwest of the Ranch sub-continent. One of the five, named "Chicken Nuggets" has a small section of what appears to be a coastline in it's SW corner, the first such section of coastline on the west side of Ranch. Names (5): Noteworthy Pond, New Prospect, Meskwaki Grove, Tilden Center, Chicken Nuggets.

Seven new Mediterranean coastal sims have been added to the inworld map, filling in all the voids between Mediterranean and Ranch sub-continents. Names (7): SSPCheval Blanc, Idle Dreaming, Auberge, Pigadi, SSPBudgie, SSPJanes Aerie, Cloudless.

No, we ripped off the Republic of Genoa. And so did France and a whole bunch of other Christian countries....

Georgia (the country, not the US state) blatantly ripped off England's flag and made it their official national flag as recently as 2004... Used to look like this:

The arrows are like those found in a family tree diagram.

England: Saint George's Cross flag. Scotland: Saint Andrew's Saltire flag. Ireland (pre 1921): Saint Patrick's Saltire flag. * Wales is represented by England's flag, as Wales was annexed into the Kingdom of England in 1284 & 1536. ** Northern Ireland has been represented in the Union Flag by the Saint Patrick's Saltire flag since 1921. In 1959, an official national flag for Wales was created for the first time, just in time for Prince Charles' Investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969: Wales also has a patron saint flag too, the Saint David's Flag, some Welsh prefer it as their national flag:

"Quite" is an English word with more than one meaning; "quite" can be used to add extra emphasis to a statement. "It rained quite hard today". "My headache hurts quite badly". "My headache is quite better, it's almost gone".

It means "one who studies the origins, design and usage of flags".

As an amateur vexillologist myself, the Flag Institute is quite correct about the Union Flag's status and usage. The Union Flag (as it is correctly called) was originally created to identify King James I warships with a common identification flag, by combining the patron saint crosses of his two kingdoms of England and Scotland together to form a recognition flag for his Royal Navy. The Union flag wasn't created as a national flag, it's a royal identification flag. The rules about the Union Flag are quite clear and strict, the flag is NOT an official national flag, as the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland is NOT a country and NOT a nation, it is a Sovereign State. No act or law has been passed through the UK's Parliament or been given Royal Assent to make the Union Flag an official "national flag". As the UK is a complex entity, it doesn't have an official "national flag", but allows the Union Flag to semi-officially fill in for the place of one. The British monarchy grants permission for national organisations the usage of the Royal Navy's Union Flag to represent the UK in a world where most countries have their own official national flags. But the Union Flag is still a Royal Flag, not a national flag, as the UK is neither a nation or a country. From the flag's use in the Royal Navy, it is the other countries of the world who have seen the Union Flag on British ships in their ports over the centuries who have incorrectly assumed that the Union Flag meant "the British flag". It does not. The flag literally means "this ship belongs to the British monarch". Even the warships are prefixed with the title "H.M.S.", which means "His/Her Majesty's Ship/Submarine". The Union Flag is still a Royal Navy flag, which is correctly flown from the jack staff at the bow of a warship, but only when the vessel is in port or alongside. At sea, the Union Flag is lowered from the jack staff and in place, the Royal Navy warships fly a different flag from their stern, the White Ensign, which has a quarter-sized smaller Union Flag in the upper-left corner (the canton). It is forbidden for UK civilian or commercial sea vessels to fly the standard Union Jack at sea, or when berthed in a port. Alternative flags are used instead, the Red Ensign for civilian vessels and the Blue Ensign for government owned vessels (excluding Royal Navy vessels). On land, the Union Jack is treated as a regimental war banner and used by the British Army, the King's soldiers. The army's variant has a narrower squarer shape than the usual Union Flag, which is more rectangular. The Union Flag may be flown from public buildings on special "flag days", which mark historic anniversaries or birthdays of members of the royal family. The British monarchy grants permission for national organisations the rights and usage of the Royal Navy's Union Flag to represent the UK in a world where most countries have their own official national flags. But the Union Flag is still a Royal Flag, not a national flag, as the UK is neither a nation or a country. The Union Flag has the nickname of "Union Jack" too. There are two theories of the nickname's origins: The first and most common theory is that the Union Flag is flown from the "jack" staff (a flag pole mounted at the bow or front of ships). A jack is a sea flag which when flown from a jack staff identifies the owner of a vessel. The Union Flag was originally created as a "jack" flag by King James I to identify his ships. His Union Flag became a "Union Jack". The second less common theory of the Union Jack nickname origin is that "Jack" comes from Jacobus, the latin form of James, the King who created the Union Flag. The latin name Jacobus is also the origin for the Scottish nickname "Jock" for James too, which makes sense when pronouncing Jack in a Scots accent and dialect.

Just use a cylinder prim with a textured face which physically spins. Dead easy to do. Spin direction and speed is easily adjustable. A basic rotation script that does the job can be found in your inventory "Library" folder.

Are there any salty dogs over in Salty Dawg?!

Six new LH region names have been added to the inworld map between the Mediterranean and Ranch themed sub-continents. Names (6): SSPTorre del Falco, SSPDeerpath, Pelican River, Cape Finagle, SSPCampos Verdes, SSPSchmidts Forge.

YES! Your turn, Clem. 🤩

You see now? I told you all back in 2022 that was why Newbank was built as a fight arena!