Grenada

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #4cabff;">The Spice Islands, or also known as the Isle of Spices, the land of white and black sand beaches, is Grenada. One can see the beauty of Grenada in its flag. Grenada is one of the leading producer of nutmeg, which is seen on the left hand side of the flag. The six stars on the border show the six parishes namely, Saint Mark, Saint John, Saint Patrick, Saint Andrew and Saint David. The centre star represents the capital city, Saint Georges. Also the colours play a significant role. Red stands for bravery and vitality, yellow is for warmth and wisdom and green depicts vegetation and agriculture. Grenada’s motto is ‘Ever Conscious of God We Aspire, Build and Advance as One People’.</p>
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Greece

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #ff7283;">What can you call a land of archaeological museums, a land that is gifted with olive trees and water in abundance, a land that is officially orthodox and the most important – a land where Santa Claus is from?...It is Greece. Greece, officially known as the Hellenic Republic, has one of the largest merchant ship fleets in the world. The country was the birthplace of democracy. Even Olympics started in Greece. Let us understand certain other features of the country.</p>
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Falkland Islands

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #ffd84f;">An English navigator was the first one to spot the island in 1592, but it was only in the year 1690, that the English actually lowered the anchor on the coast of the country later to be known as Falkland Island. Falkland Islands was named after the British naval officer Viscount Falkland. Later in 1764, the French established the first settlement at Port Louis on East Falkland. Spain soon joined the equation and had the colony handed over to them. They forced the French out in 1767 and pressurized the British out of a settlement in West Falkland. There has been a scramble, first between Britain and Spain, then between Britain and Argentina, to get hold of the islands ever since. Argentina claimed the island in the 1820’s only to be reclaimed by the British in 1833; and though Argentina were prised out, they never really relinquished their claim over the islands. Enter UK, who advanced its claim to the islands and went on to station a naval garrison there. Around the late 1960’s, Britain made the first moves that suggested their intentions to handover the colony to Argentina, but the process being a tad too slow for Argentina’s preferences the impatient country executed an invasion on 2 April 1982. This incurred the retaliation of the British, and the war that ensued took the lives of one thousand, three quarters of which were Argentineans. Loads of bloodshed later, Argentina grudgingly surrendered on 14 June 1982 and UK administration resumed. Nevertheless, Argentina’s renewed calls for Britain to relinquish control of the island had them agree on a two-day referendum held in March 2013. The results were a whopping 99.8% of the population, 1,513 of whom voted in favour of staying British, while just three votes were against it. </p>
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