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In his account, the original flag was made in June 1776, when a small committee – including George Washington, Robert Morris and relative George Ross – visited Betsy and discussed the need for a new U.S. flag. Betsy accepted the job to manufacture the flag, altering the committee's design by replacing the six-pointed stars with five-pointed ...
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The first official flag resembling the "Stars and Stripes" was the Continental Navy ensign (often referred to as the Continental Union Flag, first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) used between 1775 and 1777. It consisted of 13 red-and-white stripes, with the British Union Flag in the canton.
The flag itself will measure larger than a football field - the largest flag ever flown - when erected in eastern Maine. The project, scheduled to break ground next year, will also feature special ...
See also: Flags of the U.S. states and territories A 2.00 m × 1.70 m oil painting showing historical US flags. This is a list of flags in the United States describing the evolution of the flag of the United States of America, as well as other flags used within the United States, such as the flags of governmental agencies. There are also separate flags for embassies and ships. National flags ...
Almost 7,000 Maryland students created the largest living American flag Tuesday. Pretty spectacular, right? This is an aerial view of the finished flag at Maryland's Fort McHenry. Students, and it ...
26 million people around the world used the Facebook rainbow flag meme on their profile pictures in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to make same-sex marriage a right nationwide and to ...