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The colours of the flag
Brazil’s Flag is commemorated on the 19th of November, the day in 1889 when it was officially adopted.
The fifth and current Brazilian flag was created at the Proclamation of the Republic. It was devised in 1889 by Raimundo Teixeira Mendes and Miguel Lemos, based on a design by Décio Vilares.
Benjamin Constant, taking his inspiration from the imperial flag designed by the French painter Jean Baptiste Debret, of a sky-blue sphere bearing the Imperial Crown, suggested to Raimundo Teixeira Mendes that the positivist motto 'Order and Progress' should replace the crown. The motto is derived from the Positivist tenet: "Love as the Principle, Order as the Basis, Progress as the End", usually divided into the moral principle 'Regard for others' (altruism, a term coined by Comte) i.e., to put the interests of others above one's own, and the aesthetic 'Order and Progress', that is, in order to pursue a socially ethical existence, everything must be in its proper place. Within the sphere, the sky above Rio de Janeiro, with the Southern Cross constellation as seen at 8:30 am on the 15th of November of 1889, the day the Republic was proclaimed, is portrayed: Spica, Sirius, Canopus, Delta, Gamma, Epsilon, Alpha, Antares, Lambda, Mu, Theta and other stars are depicted.
A law was passed in 1992, allowing each of the 26 states plus the Federal District to be symbolically represented by stars.
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The colours of the flag
The Brazilian Flag has a large yellow shape diamond on a green background. The green colour stands for the lush fields and forests of Brazil. The yellow colour represents its wealth in gold, which is found in many areas of the country. In the center of the yellow diamond there is a blue sphere that symbolizes the navy-blue sky that one finds in the tropical areas of the Earth. In that sky are the stars which represent the capital of the country andthe federal states.
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