Flags signaled other units in battle, but were also a tangible manifestation of the beliefs and spirit of a group of people. As such, flags were protected to the point of injury or death. Men in ...

A false flag is a political or military action carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it. Nations have often done this by staging a real or simulated attack on their own side ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

When did the Polish flag appear? What colour is it actually? What is the proper way to display it? What should you do with it when a storm is coming? And who wrote poems about it? Worthy of its very ...

The huge flag displayed at the River Plate/Colo Colo match Kirchner's party lawmaker Agustina Propato, on crutches with the contentious vest The South Atlantic understanding, (and by extension to ...

The road to Flag Football's debut in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles is underway!Watch over 50 of the best Men's and Women's International elite teams from 32 countries battle it out at the ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial ...

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 ...

Americans love flying flags. Not just the Stars and Stripes—flags of their state, their city, their alma mater. Last year, ...

Transparency International UK found 135 “high-risk” contracts with at least three red flags - warning signs of a risk of corruption. Twenty-eight contracts worth £4.1bn went to firms with ...

Tally Einav, the UNIDO representative to Kenya, Eritrea, South Sudan, Seychelles and Comoros, said that for African nations to sustain industrialization, harnessing local innovations, and sharing ...

By Deborah Solomon Betsy Ross, the sewing heroine of our childhoods, is no longer credited as the creator of the American flag. Historians insist the maker of the flag remains unknown ...