A Big Thank You!, Start Up Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

I wanted to say thank you to a few folks who were key in the layout of the Mosaic. :) :) :)

Utilizing the test site, the categories, forums, fonts, colors and general layout (for design impact) produced excellent feedback, which I value very much.

The folks who assisted in that 'tiling' process are:
Zeus² (Larry), AMETHYST (Liz), Imhotep (Peter, our techie behind the scenes superhero/God), Nefertiti (Beth), Just Daniel (Daniel), Athena (Dolly), Atila (Butch) and Aphrodite (Lindi).

Atila the Hun (Butch) created the member titles (see FAQ forum for details).

Zeus² (Larry) assisted in creating some of the category and forum names such as Plato's Pearls of Wisdom, Homer's Homilies, and Socrates’ Synapse.

Aphrodite (Lindi) came with the idea of the word 'intellection' that I ended up using in our slogan: "initiating intellection by expression". Thankies!

Imhotep (Peter) - he's the behind the scenes superhero who makes sure the site is up and running and helps me coding the Mosaic. :)

Posting options/features are continuing to be enhanced and such feedback is appreciated.

On a great note: the requests for adding centering, font styles, font colors and sizing via buttons - are underway with a programmer friend of ours.

So stay tuned and continue to ask questions. We seek to make the Mosaic the place you'll love to be for your writing interactions.

Best regards,
Cleo and Imhotep

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Lori,

Don't start me on Europe :) That's a different matter altogether.

I hope the following helps:

Anyway as regards the UK...

As the USA (United States of A) is a union of individual states (e.g. Maryland, Rhode island, etc), so the United Kingdom is a union of kingdoms (eg England and Scotland). As the USA's individual states have a good deal of autonomy, so do the four parts of the UK. As the USA has overall governance of all states and represents all internationally, so the UK does for its kingdoms. In fact, the parallels between the US and UK are very striking.

The United Kingdom (UK) is:

Flag: The Union Flag (called The Union Jack at sea). It is a very similar flag to the top-left corner flag in Hawaii's, Australia's and New Zealand's flags. In the original American Colonies' flag, the Union flag was in the corner of that, too - it was replaced by the stars.

England
(Red cross on white background)

Northern Ireland
(As England but with hand logo in centre)

Scotland
(White diagonal cross on blue background)

Wales
(Horizontal 50-50 split: White on top, green under, with a large red dragon superimposed on the whole flag).

Welsh Flag and other details on MM

(Great Britain (GB) is the UK minus Northern Ireland)

GB has no flag of its own (uses the UK's Union flag)

Ireland:
Southern Ireland - Eire - The Irish Republic (call it what you will) is an independent country, not part of the UK. It has its own (elected) President as Head of State. (As Northern Ireland is still in the UK, its (unelected) Head of State is Her Majesty The Queen).

The flag for Eire is horizontal stripes of orange, green and white.