The Costa Rican flag features five horizontal stripes. The red stripe in the center is the widest, symbolizing the blood shed for freedom. The blue represents the sky, opportunities and ...

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 ...

A white star on a blue stripe, flanked by ten stars on each side, for a total of 21. It’s colorless and dull. The Sesquicentennial Flag, with a red silhouette of the state embedded in a white ...

Some interpret the red, white and blue stripes as the highways that will take the scattered Assyrians back to their ancestral homeland. Above the blue star is the image of the Assyrian god Assur, who ...