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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 ...
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 ...
These stripes switch between red and white on every other line ... Again, there isn't an official meaning behind the flag's colors, but PBS states that "blue represents vigilance, perseverance ...
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 ...
In 2024, roughly a year after lawmakers unveiled the new flag, a Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll of Utah ...
On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress resolved that America’s flag should feature 13 white stars on a blue field and 13 alternating red and white stripes, chosen to represent the 13 ...
Amid the colorful homes of Old San Juan lies an abandoned building adorned with a black-and-white striped flag. Painted over the original red, white, and blue colors of Puerto Rico, the monochrome ...