The state flag has eight stripes representing the Hawaiian archipelago's major islands: Ni‘ihau, Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui, Moloka‘i, Lana‘i, Kaho‘olawe and the Big Island of Hawai‘i. The colors are red, white and blue. From top to bottom on the flag the stripes are, in order, white, red, blue, white, red, blue, white, and red. The upper left corner closely resembles the Union Jack of Great Britain.Below the shield is the Phoenix surrounded by taro leaves, banana foliage, and sprays of maidenhair fern.The state song is Hawai‘i Pono‘i: Written by King David Kalakaua and the music was composed by Professor Henry Berger.The yellow hibiscus or Hibiscus Brackenridge is the state flower and each island has a different colored Hibiscus flower.Niihau - Pupu Shell – White, Kauai - Mokihana (Green Berry) – Purple, Oahu - Ilima –Yellow, Maui - Lokelani – Pink, Molokai - White Kukui Blossom – Green, Lanai - Kaunaoa – Orange, Kahoolawe - Hinahina – Grey, Big Island of Hawaii - Lehua Ohia – Red.The state bird is the Nene goose since 1957 and is the rarest goose in the world; there are less than 900 in the wild. The Candlenut or Kukui (aleurites moluccana) is the Hawaiian State tree.The state marine mammal is the humpback whale, which migrates annually from Alaska to Hawaiian waters to mate and calve.Hawaii is the fiftieth state meaning that it, similar to Bolivia was the last state to gain independence, or at least to be accepted as a state.
Bolivia
The Bolivian flag is red, green and yellow with a sheild on which is depicted a condor, which is the national bird of Bolivia. The Bolivian national flower is the Cantuta which is a bell shaped flower with the flag colors, starting off with green then going to yellow and ending in purple. the national stone is the Bolivianita which also shows the colors of the Bolivian flag.The red means bloodshed, yellow means the minerals and green is for the fauna. The national animal is probably the Llamabut I'm not so sure.The Bolivian national anthem is called El Himno Nacional de Bolivia, and was written by an Italian man named Leopoldo Benedetto Vincenti.The first revolutionary ideas in South America were started in Bolivia’s capital, Sucre, and spread to all the surrounding countries.However, Bolivia was one of the last countries in South America to gain its independence.The Bolivian flag is red, green and yellow with a sheild on which is depicted a condor, which is the national bird of Bolivia.The Bolivian national flower is the Cantuta which is a bell shaped flower with the flag colors, starting off with green then going to yellow and ending in purple.The national stone is the Bolivianita which also shows the colors of the Bolivian flag.The red means bloodshed, yellow means the minerals and green is for the fauna.The national animal is probably the Llamabut I'm not so sure.The Bolivian national anthem is called El Himno Nacional de Bolivia, and was written by an Italian man named Leopoldo Benedetto Vincenti.the natural recourses in Bolivia are tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber,and hydropower.
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"Bolivian Flag - Flag Of Bolivia." Applied Language Solutions. 10 Mar. 2005 <http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/flag_of_bolivia.shtml>. Parenthetical Within Text
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