Julio Song
Writer, FlagDB
Julio is a staff writer at FlagDB. He studied Mathematics at the University of Madrid and has a passion for vexillology.
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Puerto Rico's Flag Was Once Evidence in Court. Now the Fight Is Over Its Blue.
Latvia's Flag Began as One Line in a Medieval Chronicle
Why Rwanda's New Flag Has No Red: The Flag It Announced in 1999 and Never Raised
Brazil's Flag Is a Star Chart of One Morning in 1889
The Flag That Spent 47 Years Under a Chimney: How a Student Club's Banner Became Estonia's
Don't Tread on Me: How a 1775 Rattlesnake Flag Ended Up in a 2016 Discrimination Case
The Flag Nobody Finished: How Six Pride Stripes Became Eleven
Why Wales Isn't on the Union Jack
The Fourteenth Stripe: How Malaysia's Flag Survived Losing a Member State
The Flag Designed to Mean Nothing: How the Red Crystal Solved the Red Cross's Israel Problem
Blue Instead of Green: How a Coup in Guinea-Bissau Rewrote Cape Verde's Flag
No Government Designed These Flags. Recognizing Them Took Decades.
The Flag You've Never Seen: Why Some Countries Fly One Banner on Land and Another at Sea
Somalia's Flag Has Five Points. Only Two of Them Are Somalia.
The Flag North Korea Called Superstition: How One Peninsula Split an Ancient Cosmology in Two
South Africa's Flag Was Designed to Mean Nothing, and That's the Point
New Zealand Spent $26 Million Voting on a New Flag. Then Chose the Old One.
Georgia's Flag Was a Party Logo First. A Revolution Made It the Nation's.
Bolivia Wrote a Second Flag Into Its Constitution. Then the Fighting Started.
The Flag Nobody Chose: How a Spanish Diplomat Designed Bosnia and Herzegovina's Flag
The Flag Czechoslovakia Split in Half: How the Czech Republic Kept a Banned Flag While Slovakia Started Over
The Flag Nigeria Never Redesigned, and the Man It Nearly Forgot
One Poem, Two Flags: How the Arab World's Colors Split Into Rival Family Trees
