14/07/2020 of Happy Black Country Day!

Do you have a flag?

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Today is Black Country Day, the first day of what would usually be a month long festival celebrating my local area the Black Country. The Black Country was the heart of the industrial revolution and July 14th is chosen for it is the anniversary of the first successful Newcomen Steam Engine built in the Black Country in 1712. The area gets it name from it's heavy industry which blocked out the sky with smoke and covered the area with thick black soot then at night the sky would glow red from the many furnaces, a thick 10 metre coal seam below the surface of the land also contributed (and may have been the original reason for the name).

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The Official Black Country flag was designed as part of a competition to decide the regions official flag, it owes its design to a quote made in 1862 by Elihu Burritt, the American Consul in Birmingham. He described the region as "black by day and red by night", the chain and glass cone show just two of the major industries of the area chain making and glass making.

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I only know 14 July as the French national holiday because it's the day of the Storming of the Bastille.

Also we don't have a celebration of our region. Neither where I was born nor where I live now.

This is the flag of my home region:

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We informally celebrate April 4 as "404 Day", which is the area code for our region. Nothing too exciting.

Edit: And yes, I know for many of you April 4 would actually be something like "044 Day" - you're wrong.

 
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We’ve got Dia de Zamboanga. A fused Catholic/Muslim celebration. Mixed with traces of various Southeast Asian cultures, and even some Spanish. The city doesn’t really have it’s own flag. Though it briefly did at the end of Spanish occupation, when someone establish a short-lived (less than 5 years) republic just before American occupation.

 
It was the "Glorious Twelfth" the other day if that counts -- hardly noticed as the roads weren't blocked by a lot of clowns that think they can play the bagpipes.

There's no official flag, but we do have a coat of arms!

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We don’t have a local story steeped in history, at least not world history, but I do have one that is very close to my heart. The ministry I work for focuses on more than generalized evangelism. We focus on the biblical model of discipleship through a gender specific application. We focus on Christian men training boys and subsequently creating more Christian men. 
 




About sixteen years ago we started a leadership development camp and it has grown and flourished with participants coming to our operations in Oklahoma from as far as California and Maryland. The staff have become a family, and while many have come and gone there is a basic core group that have been there all along. I went through this multifaceted program as a boy and was welcomed onto the staff after graduation. Each year is a family reunion and each time we part it’s filled with bittersweet tears and anticipation of the following year.  

 
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