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Author: R.C. PayneR.C. Payne Date: Aug 19, 2008 04:06
Mark Brader wrote:
> Tom Anderson writes:
>>I think that's quite a nice idea. You might want to subdivide further than
>>by country, though - if, say, 90%% of plaques are about British people ...
>>then the national flag isn't providing a lot of information about those
>>ones.
>
> Ah, but the trick is to use the *correct* national flag. For Samuel Pepys,
> the St. George's Cross; for Samuel Johnson, the Union Jack without the
> red diagonal cross; for Samuel Palmer, the present version.
That could cause problems. For example, would you use pre- or post-
1800 Union Flag for Wellington? Then there are the really awkward
people like Alexander Graham Bell[1]. Would he have a Union Flag, a
defaced (Canadian) red ensign, or the Stars and Stripes (and in that
case, how many stars)?
Robin
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