It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...

The basic story here is simple enough: they are taking down the Star-Spangled Banner, the giant American ... the flag will probably be displayed on a tilt from the vertical to ease the stress ...

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 ...