Every country has a flag to represent it. In the United States, Old Glory's familiar red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes ...

June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress issued a resolution making the Stars and Stripes the nation's flag. Enjoy a little red, white, and blue from across the Smithsonian. Visit the O Say Can You See ...

While the crescent and star symbols signify the country’s dominant ... the African National Congress, the red, white and blue are reminiscent of the flags of the European colonists and the ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

Some interpret the red, white and blue stripes as the highways that will take the scattered Assyrians back to their ancestral homeland. Above the blue star is the image of the Assyrian god Assur, who ...