File:Reconstruction of the proposal for the flag of the United Nations.svg
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English: Proposed flag of the United Nations, reconstructed from verbal descriptions. The background color was a "smokey blue" (named "Stettinius blue"), which was not found on any flag; the globe was centered on the US at 100 degrees west longitude, as the US was the host of the UN, and extended only to 40 degrees south latitude, cutting off part of South America and New Zealand, because that's where the Rand MacNally map they used as a model ended. Upon adoption as the flag of the UN, the color would be changed to a light blue that was found on some flags, the globe recentred to the international date line and extended to 60 degrees south. |
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Português: Feito e carregado por Huhsunqu.
Runa Simi: Kaytaqa Huhsunqupam tiksisqan yapasqanpas, Flag of the United Nations.svg nisqamanta rurasqa.
Runa Simi: Kaytaqa Huhsunqupam tiksishqan yapashqanpis, Flag of the United Nations.svg nishqapita rurashqa.
 This SVG flag includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this flag:  Flag of the United Nations.svg. |
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This work is excerpted from an official document of the United Nations. Prior to 17 September 1987 it was the policy of this organisation to not seek copyright, keeping most of its documents in the public domain, in order to disseminate "as widely as possible the ideas (contained) in the United Nations Publications" (detail).
UN works not in the annex to Administrative Instruction ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.1 (available in English) published in the US before 1978 are in the public domain because they were published without a copyright notice. UN works not in the annex to ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.1 published in the US between 1978 and 17 September 1987 are in the public domain because they were published without a copyright notice and their copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years (from 1978 through 1993 the UN did not register any document published in the US before 17 September 1987). This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets two requirements:
 Note: you must include evidence that this work appears in an official document of the United Nations published in the United States prior to 17 September 1987.
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| current | 00:24, 27 August 2024 | | 1,200 × 800 (33 KB) | wikimediacommons>Kwamikagami | 4 lines of latitude, down to 40*S; centered on 100*W; guess at "smokey blue" color |
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