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[Cuba flag] by Mark Sensen
Flag adopted 20 May 1902.

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Origin of the Cuban Flag

From Barraclough and Crampton:Flags Of the World (1981) [brc81]:

A Venezuelan general, Narciso Lopez, made in 1848 the first serious attempt to help Cuba break away from Spanish rule. He carried 'La Estrella Solitaria' -'The Lone Star'-banner, Cuba's present flag. (While he was having important meetings on the revolution, his wife embroidered it). His attempt was not successful; only in 1902 Cuba became an independent republic and Lopez's flag was adopted as the official flag.
      The three blue stripes are the symbols of the original three provinces. The triangle is a masonic symbol, here signifying liberty, equality and fraternity. The red color is for the blood sacrificed by the Cuban patriots.
Contributed by Jarig Bakker, 29 October 1998

From http://kuba.sh.cvut.cz/history.htm:

The year was 1849. It was a steamy hot day in New York City and General Narciso Lopez, of Venezuelan origin, had joined the fight for Cuba's independence. Exhausted from planning all that was entailed in bringing Revolution to Cuba, he sat a local park, and quickly fell asleep. He was concerned about the pending arrival in Cuba. He felt a flag was necessary to add patriotic fervor to the endeavor. When he awoke in the park, the colors of the splendorous sky allowed him to envision the would-be flag. Full of emotion, he went to his friend, a poet and soon-to-be patriot, Miguel Teurbe Tolon, who incorporated Narciso's ideas and designed the flag which was later sewn by Emilia Teurbe Tolon.
      And so it was: Three light blue stripes, later changed to ocean blue, representing Cuba's three sections at the time, Western, Central and Eastern. The two white stripes representing the purity and justice of the patriotic liberators' motives. While the lone white star within the equilateral red traingle represents the unity of our people upon the blood spilled by our revolutionary heroes.
Contributed by Dov Gutterman, 9 January 1999,

Cuban Shield

[Cuban shield] from the "Official Cuban Home Page"

I got additional information from Embassy in Tokyo. COA was adopted on Apr 24th 1906.
Nozomi Kariyasu , 13 November 1999

Former Shild (?)

On: http://www.autentico.org/index02.html it seems to me that they refer to the 'authentical revolution of 1933'; several links have been provided with a CoA-like image, which I interpret as the old Cuban CoA.
Jarig Bakker, 20 December 1999

Air Force Roundel and Fin Flash

[Cuban roundel] by Ivan Sache, 2 July 1997

Roundel - Blue disc, with an inscribed red triangle pointing downwards and a white star within the triangle.
Source : Album des Pavillons et des Marques distinctives.

by Dov Gutterman (based on Antonio Martins image) 8 October 1999

the Fuerza Ae'rea Revolucionaira uses a square variant of the national flag as fin flash. Source : B.C Wheeler: Aircraft Markings 1986, [whe86].
Dov Gutterman 8 October 1999

The Coat of Armss of the Provinces

I located the CoAs of provinces:
Pinar del Rio: http://www.autentico.org/oa09232.html (a crocodile, a sunrise, 3 trees, a shed and a cornfield)
La Habana: http://www.autentico.org/oa09229.html
Matanzas: http://www.autentico.org/oa09231.html
Las Villas: http://www.autentico.org/oa09230.html
Oriente: http://www.autentico.org/oa09233.html
Camaguey: http://www.autentico.org/oa09228.html
Jarig Bakker, 20 December 1999