> At 03:13 PM 1/2/01 -0800, you wrote:
Well, according to the CIA World Factbook
(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html, *love* this
site), "the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was implemented in
1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland". Though since the name changed to "The United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland" in 1927...?
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:28:53 -0500, Aaron Teske <ateske@HICom.net>
wrote:
> Well, according to the CIA World Factbook
*G* Thank you! I thought about that later, on the way home. Any Irish on the
list, please forgive me. I'm a Scot! *S*
> At 03:13 PM 1/2/01 -0800, you wrote:
Yep, that's about it - January 1801 was also apparently the date that
the
Union Jack (more correctly the Union Flag in non-naval useage) was
designed and adopted.
> Absender: jon@gzg.com
The Union Jack in its present form, that is. It now has red stripes in the
diagonal lines. Before that, the diagonal lines were just white. The original
Union Jack was created at the time of the Union with Scotland and was a
combination of the English Flag (Red St.George's Cross on white field) with
the Scottish one (White diagonal St Andrew's Cross on blue).
There was an Irish flag of a red diagonal "St.Patrick's cross" on a white
field. This was combined with the existing Union Jack to give the present
flag.
Greetings Karl Heinz