While the black, green and yellow colors are an ode to Nelson Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress, the red, white and blue are reminiscent of the flags of the European ...

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 colors represent gender non-conformity (dark orange), independence (middle orange), community (light orange), unique relationships to womanhood (white ... flag was designed by Monica Helms in 2000 ...

Our flag helps us remember what a wonderful country we live in. ♪ Our flag is red, white and blue. There are 13 stripes. Each one represents one of the 13 original colonies that made up the ...

Ireland’s flag (green, white, orange) looks like that of the West African country of Côte d’Ivoire (orange, white, green) when painted backwards because it then matches the color scheme of ...

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 ...

explaining the symbolism of the flag’s three colors: “The white in the center signifies a lasting truce between the orange and the green,” he said, “and I trust that beneath its folds the ...