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 ...

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

A white star on a blue stripe, flanked by ten stars on each side, for a total of 21. It’s colorless and dull. The Sesquicentennial Flag, with a red silhouette of the state embedded in a white ...

The flag was adopted on Oct. 1, 1960. Malaysia The 14 red-and-white stripes as well as the 14 arms in the star represent the 13 member states and the federal district of Kuala Lumpur ...

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 ...

Explain the meaning behind your flag: The 21 red + white stripes represent Illinois as the 21st state of this union. The blue field with the six-pointed white star represents Chicago. The negative ...

with one red stripe dangling down toward the ground. Ramazanov is shown somberly walking away from the burning home, with the flag's white stars delicately folded and tucked in his arms.