As I have been driving around this spring, I saw these little colored flags and the surveyors out and wondered, first, what ...

In general, however, straight rows of stars and proportions similar to those later adopted officially were used. The principal acts affecting the flag of the United States are the following: ...

Colorado’s “purple mountain majesties” didn’t make the cut, apparently. But here’s why red, white, blue and gold did.

any racing event consists of two types of flags -- solid colors and patterned flags -- each type having a different meaning. For instance, there's a flag that signals racers to slow down ...

Many of us were left scratching our heads over this. After all, if the colors of the flag were meant to represent different races, then whom were the orange and red stripes meant to represent?