In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. 3. The 1777 resolution did not set the size or proportions of the flag, or even what shape the constellation of stars should be.

As a matter of symbolism, our city flag can be boiled down to its most distinctive element: its four six-pointed red stars. Wallace Rice, who designed the flag (it had only two stars when adopted ...

The first official American Flag, generally attributed to Betsy Ross, chose stars to mimic the Washington coat of arms. Congress passed the first Flag Act a year later in 1777, which required all ...

LIKE almost every other American school child, I learnt how to draw a five-pointed star by hand at a very young age. (I hope this does not turn out to be like the millipede, who, when asked how ...

“I’m not in favour of changing the flag, I’ve got to say, although I have to say that the Commonwealth star was to be a 7-pointed star rather than a 6-pointed star, that’s hardly a massive ...

Senators on Monday made a slight alteration to the star before their final vote, moving from the 8-pointed model recommended by a state flag task force to a more traditionally American 5-point star ...