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THE real farce is that England irrationally adopts a Genoese flag which has nothing to do with a British saint. St George, who was part Greek and part Syrian, never visited Britain. His contemporary ...

In some cases, this has carried over to the present day, giving rise to the fact that in some European countries, two ...