Who came up with the idea to use a flag as a symbol of…..
Asker: French, 43 years
Answer
Without having researched this, it seems logical to me that a fluttering rag on a stick is very functional when a (military) group has to move in a certain direction. Flag bearers indicated the path and often made clear from a distance where the leader (who had to be followed and protected) was located.
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Prof. dr. dr. Gie van den Berghe
morality, ethics, history of Nazi camps and genocides, eyewitness accounts, the Enlightenment, eugenics, Darwinism, historical photographs, transhumanism
university of Ghent
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