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Government has expressed condolences to the family,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, relatives and friends of Whitney Smith who passed away last week Thursday in Massachusetts, United States.Smith, a US citizen, designed this country’s national flag, the Golden Arrowhead in 1960, six years prior to Guyana’s independence.Born in 1940 on February 26,Wholesale World Cup Jerseys, Smith was a professional vexillologist and scholar of flags. He originated the term vexillology, which refers to the scholarly analysis of all aspects of flags and was a founder of several vexillology organizations, the Department of Public Information said in a release.While a political science undergraduate at Harvard University,Cheap Stitched Jerseys, Smith designed the Golden Arrowhead for the then newly independent Guyana.Smith, in 1960, as a 20-year-old had written to then former Chief Minister,Nike NFL Jerseys China, Dr. Cheddi Jagan,Jerseys From China, to ask what the new country’s flag was going to be.“Dr. Jagan invited Mr. Smith to submit his ideas which he promptly did,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, and which was subsequently adopted with some modifications.”Smith was 76 years old at the time of his passing. |
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