Flag of Brazil
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The national flag of Brazil is a blue disc depicting a starry sky spanned by a curved band inscribed with the national motto Ordem e Progresso, within a yellow rhombus on a green field. It was officia
The Founding of the Brazilian Fatherland, a 1899 allegorical painting depicting statesman José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, one of the founding fathers of the country, with the imperial flag and Brazil's three major ethnic groups
A Pátria (The Fatherland) by Pedro Paulo Bruno, a 1919 painting depicting the Brazilian flag being embroidered by a family
The flag being replaced in a monthly ceremony held at the Praça dos Três Poderes (Three Powers Plaza) in Brasília
Historical flags (1500–present-day)
Crux
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Crux is a constellation of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. It lies on the southern end of the Milky Way's visible
Flag of Brazil
…The national flag of Brazil is a blue disc depicting a starry sky (which includes the Southern Cross) spanned by a curved band inscribed with the national motto Ordem e Progresso (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: ) ('Order and Progress'), within a…
Southern Cross from New Zealand
Deep exposure of Crux, Coalsack Nebula, and IC 2944
The constellation Crux as it can be seen by the naked eye
A depiction of the Southern Cross in Mark Twain's 1897 travelogue, Following the Equator