For those interested, you can play with this little program for printing Gregorian calendars on screen.

github.com/chlewey/MyCalendar

It allows to choose year, prints holidays (so far US, SE, MX, CO, PE), you can choose language, preference for first day of the week, column arrangement, and a few other params.

You can also help adding more countries and languages.

All heraldically correct triband flags, and all heralducally correct triband flags if purple is included.

Only one country has once used a heraldically correct triband with purple.

Shade of yellow, red, blue or green are not important. Orange is not a heraldic color.

Can you identifie how many of theses flags have actually been used?

My fourth most upvoted answer was a nice trivia.

quora.com/Among-countries-that

«Paris (France), Brasilia (Brazil): 8,735 km (5,427 mi)

Second place (and just in case you refuse to consider French Guiana as main French territory):

Moscow (Russia), Pyongyang (DPRK): 6,420 km (3,989 mi)

[Edit: Actually third after Paris-Paramaribo, still largest distance for continuous land territories. Thank to Colin Myrick for noticing.]»

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The second most upvoted answer is related to New World monkeys and vegetation rafts.

atheismandscience.quora.com/Do

It might be the most upvoted, if we add that it was shared in another space, and combined they got more upvotes than the China one, in a lesser time.

«The split between Old World monkeys and New World monkeys happened nearly 40 million years ago. By this time South America and Africa were already separated by the Atlantic Ocean. The gap was shorter than today, but it was already an ocean. Other non-simian primates only live in the Old World (Eurasia and Africa). It is reasonable to think, and so far the fossil record confirms it, that primates originated in the old world and at some point they migrated to the Americas.»

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«The explanation is much more reasonable than assuming that New World monkeys walked to South America from the Ararat mountain where Noah's ark stranded.»

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