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 ...

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 ...

The red, white, and blue flag features a bold blue “C” and ... The flag’s six-pronged star honors one of Cleveland’s historical nicknames, The Sixth City, and nods to the six symbols ...

The appearance of the Polish flag was inscribed in the law about the coats of arms and colours of the Polish Second Republic. The law stipulated the form (a rectangle with two stripes, the upper one ...