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 ...

Thus, red also signified proximity to the royal court, wealth and power. A white eagle on a red background was also present on heraldic flags. The symbol of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a ...

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 ...

Assad's departure signals a new dawn for Syria, marked by a new national flag - which has been raised over embassies, painted ...

The white flag with a red stripe across it was the flag of Belarusian ... a man and a woman got three years in jail for hanging straw effigies along a country road. Olga Klimkova and Sergei ...

Explain the meaning behind your flag: The 21 red + white stripes represent Illinois ... to symbolize Illinois being a kind of center of the country, whether it is geographically or from Chicago ...