Today is Flag and Universities Day, a public holiday in Haiti. The date commemorates the creation of the Haitian flag in 1803. The Haitian flag was adopted on May 18th 1803, on the last day of the Congress of Arcahaie. The congress was a meeting that had two key outcomes; the establishment of a united command of the revolutionary army under the supreme authority of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and the adoption of a flag by the indigenous army. Jean-Jacques Dessalines created the flag by taking a French tricolour and ripping out the white centre. His god-daughter, Catherine Flon, sewed the remaining horizontal bands together – the tricolour became the bi-colour. The blue in the Haitian flag is said to represent the Haitian’s of African descent and red for the Gens de couleur (French for ‘people of color’). In 1919, the government added Universities Day as part of the celebrations. Highlighting the educational system was seen as important by the government as they saw the educational system was under threat due to the U.S. occupation of Haiti that started in 1915.
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Did you know muffins spelled backward is what you do when you take them out of the oven?
I got up at 5am not to watch the coronation but to sit on the throne.
You can say “Have a nice day” no problem, but you can’t say ‘Enjoy the next 24 hours’ without sounding like a hitman.
“Incontinence hotline, please hold.”
Exorcist: I’m here to remove the demon that has possessed you. Me: I didn’t call you. Demon: I did.
It takes a serious amount of balls to golf like I do.
If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
Him, holding sign by the road…Need money…Not homeless…Wife keeps buying plants
No good birthdays today – here’s Robert Palmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlPHmYtqSdA
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