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The story of the Union Jack; how it grew and what it is, particularly in its connection with the history of Canada (1897)

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day. The golden Eagle of theErench battalions, the black Eagle of Prussia,the white Eagle of Poland, and the double-headed Eagles of Austria and Russia, whosetwo heads typify claim to sovereignty overboth the Eastern and Western Empires, areall descended from the Imperial Eagle ofancient Rome. 12… … Aniitnan.Prussian. 3. Eagle Emblems.Roman. Russian.French. death of Christ, has become the signal andglory of the nations subjugated to the Chris-tian sway. As in the eastern, so in the western, hemi-sphere. The rainbow in the heavens is, on all The Instinct of Emblems. 13 continents, a perpetual…

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