The Cynical Historian

Stars on Flags and their Meaning (2018x35)

Air date: Oct 14, 2018

I went down another research rabbit-hole. This time I wanted to find out the contextual meaning of stars on filibuster flags. This one went really deep, I mean 1000s of years deep. So I decided to record what I was finding, and it was quite a ride. What do stars on flags mean anyways? ------------------------------------------------------------ references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(heraldry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=008/lljc008.db&recNum=90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rittenhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_West_Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciso_L%C3%B3pez ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or pick up some merchandise at SpreadShirt: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cynicalhistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: In the design of modern flags, stars (mullets, usually five-pointed) when standing alone often represent concepts like "unity" or "independence", in the case of the communist star of the flag of the Soviet Union and other communist states the unity of the Communist Party.[citation needed] When arranged in groups, they often enumerate provinces or other components of the nation (such as ethnic groups). In the flags of Nauru and the Marshall Islands, this enumeration is done by the points of a single star rather than by a number of stars.[citation needed] Some flags of countries on the southern hemisphere show a depiction of the Southern Cross consisting o