Welcome back to flag slash fan Friday.

Hope you like the Peru episode.

As you know, there's a part where we talk about this small little mistakes we made or things that didn't quite make it into the video, for 10 yeah, we had a few small spelling mistakes.

And also the national animal of Peru is actually not the Lama.

It's the vic kuna.

Yeah, I was shocked when I found that out.

Everybody knows the llama like Also, there are a bunch of, like, cool little fun facts that we didn't put in the video.

For example, in Couscous Cathedral, they have a painting of the Last Supper in which Jesus and his disciples are eating qui keeping it with the Peru thing, huh?

We did mention potatoes originated in Peru, but we didn't mention the incredibly important role potatoes played in this world's population.

It helps somewhere around 1/4 of the entire population grow between 1719 100.

In some tribal communities, they practiced trial marriage in which, if the husband and wife get a divorce and they have Children, the Children are actually under the custody of the community, not the parents.

Also, before many couples get married, they go into a period of servants, see in which they have to work and live with their in laws They have supposedly the oldest mummy in the world that was found in the auto comma desert.

I want to talk a little bit more about Carl Super.

It is thought to be the oldest site occupied by humans discovered in the Americas.

And also, despite the common pattern of political upheavals, poverty has actually significantly reduced from about 60% to 25% from 2004 to 2012.

I guess lots of tourism money helps.

There's also a lot of other things that could have mentioned.

But if you have anything you want to say, just put in the comments.

Otherwise we gotta move on.

So without further do you Ah, Peru.

It was so fun researching this country because we all kind of know about the generic info, you know, like macho P choo and ceviche and stuff.

So it was kind of challenge to find the lesser known obscure facts like Capa Cola or the fact that about 10 to 20% of the population may have East Asian roots.

In any case, they have a flag, and we got to talk about it.

The flag is a vertical tri band of two colors, red on the sides, white in the middle.

Often you may see the flag to face with a coat of arms, but we'll talk about the coat of arms later in a bit.

But white in the middle stands for purity and peace and the red stands.

Four.

Who has been so long since we've had a blood animation?

Thank you so much Peru for making the red stand for the blood of those who fight for the freedom.

Oh, and speaking of which you can get a blood of those who fight for the Freedom CI shirt on geography now dot com Beautiful stuff.

We also have geography now mugs and thank you, Ken, for making that animation.

Anyhoo, the flag has gone through quite a few changes over the years.

Of course.

First they started out under the Spanish after independence, though in 18 20 to have this flag.

Then, two years later, they switched to this, which looks like an arch nemesis of Argentina flag and then three months later, they switched to like vertical bands, and then three years later, they switched the son to the coat of arms.

For three years they joined Bolivia and a confederation and had this flag.

The south side kind of did their own thing, and after the dissolution of the confederation, they went back to the original.

Now, as mentioned, often you can see the flag with the coat of arms on it, which is a great transition, because we're gonna talk about the coat of arms Right now.

The coat of arms is a shield divided into three sections.

The upper left image depicting the national animal, the vicuna, representing the animals of Peru.

In the upper right is an image of ah cinchona tree, representing the flora of Peru, which is actually the source of quinine, a substance used to fight against malaria and is also the flavor of tonic water on fact.

And finally, the bottom image depicts a cornucopia with coins spilling out.

Representing the mineral resource is off the country.

On the sides of the shell are Peru flags draping down and on the top is a crown off home oak.

And keep in mind there's another coat of arms.

It looks like this.

It has a palm and laurel reef on the sides, tied with a ribbon at the bottom with colors of the Peru flag.

Otherwise, historically, they've had a lot of other variants off their coat of arms.

They all generally kind of followed the same format with small little minor alterations here and there.

However, the first version kind of looked like a frickin Marvel Avengers movie poster with a 1,000,000,000 things going on.

I don't have time to explain it.

Just look at it.

It looks cool.

And so yeah, that is just about it.

So that means you know what time it is?

It's time for geography.

Fan mail time.

So we are here again for fan Friday.

And as you know, we always need to have guests are so here they are Mr Caleb and Noah.

Hey, you guys have done this many times.

We always start off with postcards, Susie, I think.

And Greg, who visited Poland?

A postcard here from Finland yet a from Finland here again.

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I've got a postcard from Eunice from America on IIIs from Two Luce, France.

So I got here a postcard.

Hong Kong postcard from Arnie said P s.

Keith.

I bet you're excited about the new tool album.

Keith just left.

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I got a postcard from Matthew Annalise Day vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

This is funny.

This is from Montenegro, from Tia, the 10 Commandments of Montenegro.

If you guys didn't watch the episode, Montenegrins are known as the laziest country on earth.

Our port town, co experts.

And keep up the great work and rock on Keith and stay frosty.

Nella, You make sure you stay frosty.

Stay frosty, my friends, He's taken state.

Tell me the ice man.

Mr.

Freeze.

No, that's Mr Freeze.

Victor, please.

Eyes to meet you.

That was Arnold's best.

First thing is from it says hi Barbs and Noah from the bowl.

Eric Islands in Spain, Clement's and somebody else.

Thes guys aren't the only people that are part of this team.

I get no respect on this book.

Okay, well, I've got a wolf.

This person's from Wolf.

This person is a wolf.

Poland all the best from Delfina.

Thank you, Delfino.

Don't be.

Is the white aka Tar Alien Ranger from Power Rangers.

All right, that's seriously the thing that came to your mind.

Your postcard from Jim.

That's a gym and jam.

He's a Dutch jogger, peeps and inspired him to visit Iran, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan this summer.

Oh, well, guess what, Caleb.

Hi.

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Caleb and I I own this show.

You got somebody to Caleb and others.

You just take this one is great.

We just visited I Ybor Piper.

A city and belch city in Belgium.

Alexandra and Alexey.

He's gonna send you a lot of stuff.

Do I gotta meet these people at some point.

Thank you, Peter from Germany.

All right.

Hey.

Barbs and geography now, Crew.

I'm Francis from Philadelphia.

Stayed in London for four knots, and they were in a small, magical town called Listen, Gary, because my name is Gary Hollow.

Yeah, kill it.

Has an alter ego.

Would say this is a fantastic postcards.

Unfortunately, it's hard to make out with Davis.

Well, we got another German.

Johannes, We have so many Germans today, uh, who visited?

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Um, high poll and geography now Team greetings from Principality of Liechtenstein stopped by here on my way to Portugal.

Continue the great work three gun I don't get it.

You don't have to understand is just joke Here we had postcard from Grady The reason with the Denver as one last family trip before going to college to major in social studies Education thing is from Helvetica, otherwise in Switzerland from Traven UK Bled all over the thing.

This postcard has a lot of blood on it, I guess cats and blood, What's going on?

I don't know from Zoo Zee and looks like Greg, but could not be great says hi guys, as promised.

Here's card two out of two from Poland trip Thanks for all the episodes You love your channel PS waiting for the Poland episode This weight medical So coming up she are ah visited.

What is a sleeping bear?

Dunes in above Lake Michigan.

You've got a photograph here of a look a this food of ground every time he makes his Romanian gas.

But it's from Maria and Laden here we have a postcard from Alaska.

I borrowed.

My name is E and I'm from New Jersey.

I've been watching your episode since the China episode.

And I can't wait until you cover Sudan in South Sudan I saw on a TV show.

Ah, guy paid for his dental work in salmon, like in Alaska.

You can barter.

You can actually barter stuff.

You don't have to always use cash.

And finally, ho, this should be for you, because Hello, Caleb.

Finally getting the respect I deserve, and everyone else will know that I carried this team on my back.

I go to school in Missoula, Montana.

Well, anyways, I appreciate you giving me the respect I deserve.

Jonah.

All right, so now we're gonna do letters and packages.

You did not write any letter you sent in a really cool book pocket Atlas of remote islands.

Shows like remote islands, and it gives facts about them, and it's really cool.

And it shows the maps.

Oh, my name is Hanisch.

I'm from Bangladesh or India.

But currently I'm on vacation in the United Arab.

I'm writing this letter from my hotel room.

I missed you and Caleb I 48 hours.

Paul and I went to Dubai on a layover for a while.

Oh, you could have met us hopes that we had a good time.

The Republicans Somaliland for the geography elbows.

Your biggest takeaway from that whole trip.

Um, because it has Somalia in the name.

A lot of people associate it with Somaliland.

So you don't think it's a very dangerous country with pirates and terrorists, And stuff is actually quite the opposite.

Felt very safe.

While I was there was a Oh, my gosh, that was the hottest place.

Every was, like, 100 billion degrees.

So way have whoa drum in my record.

Thank you, Jarod, for sending in your high school flag.

All right, well, I got this letter from Abby from Japan.

You sent in painting and a magnet.

All right, what we got next year's we've got Eric s souvenir for my first trip to holiday world.

Oh, Santa Claus, Indiana.

Oh, yeah.

There's a town in Indiana called Santa Claus.

I'm so thankful that you got us to tell because I am often moist.

Have you guys noticed?

Killers here is very swoopy now, so you can actually flick it with grace and poise.

Dear Paul.

Caleb and the geography Now, squad man, I'm more Caleb.

Mention of Noah Hannah.

The guy's crazy here.

These are postcards.

He also sent ST Petersburg Calendar.

We need to make a jogger a geography team calendar.

We just all pose like firefighters.

This is from Chicago.

My name is Sam.

I'm from I'm a huge fan of the show I've taken you been watching since the Myanmar episode, but I start with Afghanistan and Binge watched everything in closing is an assortment of foreign coins.

I have also a few Chicago trinkets.

By the way.

Barb's I know you lived in Chicago for a while, so I have to ask Cubs or White Sox?

I grew up on the north side, so you know where I kind of stand at?

Yeah, Cubs territory.

I've got a better question.

Comes all the way.

Oh, come on our digital way.

Have a package from Armenia.

This person's name is ho big.

They have been following us since the our media episode.

Fun fact in Los Angeles, Glendale, California is the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia.

You lived in many countries, but our media that's cool.

Our medium do that.

We have an Armenian rug mats.

You play this to Armenian brandy bottles.

Brandy In here I'm away.

Armenian designed apron wine holder, which is hand carved and a republic.