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The history and design of the world’s flags, written up at length.
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Blue Over Yellow: The 144-Year Fight to Fly Ukraine's Flag
· Julio Song · 9 min read
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Ohio's Swallowtail Flag Is So Odd the State Wrote a Law on How to Fold It
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The Flag Denmark Confiscated, and the One Iceland Got Instead
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Puerto Rico's Flag Was Once Evidence in Court. Now the Fight Is Over Its Blue.
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Latvia's Flag Began as One Line in a Medieval Chronicle
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Why Rwanda's New Flag Has No Red: The Flag It Announced in 1999 and Never Raised
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Brazil's Flag Is a Star Chart of One Morning in 1889
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The Flag That Spent 47 Years Under a Chimney: How a Student Club's Banner Became Estonia's
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Don't Tread on Me: How a 1775 Rattlesnake Flag Ended Up in a 2016 Discrimination Case
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The Flag Nobody Finished: How Six Pride Stripes Became Eleven
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Why Wales Isn't on the Union Jack
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The Fourteenth Stripe: How Malaysia's Flag Survived Losing a Member State
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The Flag Designed to Mean Nothing: How the Red Crystal Solved the Red Cross's Israel Problem
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Blue Instead of Green: How a Coup in Guinea-Bissau Rewrote Cape Verde's Flag
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No Government Designed These Flags. Recognizing Them Took Decades.
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The Flag You've Never Seen: Why Some Countries Fly One Banner on Land and Another at Sea
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Somalia's Flag Has Five Points. Only Two of Them Are Somalia.
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The Flag North Korea Called Superstition: How One Peninsula Split an Ancient Cosmology in Two
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South Africa's Flag Was Designed to Mean Nothing, and That's the Point
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New Zealand Spent $26 Million Voting on a New Flag. Then Chose the Old One.
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Georgia's Flag Was a Party Logo First. A Revolution Made It the Nation's.
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Bolivia Wrote a Second Flag Into Its Constitution. Then the Fighting Started.
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The Flag Nobody Chose: How a Spanish Diplomat Designed Bosnia and Herzegovina's Flag
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The Flag Czechoslovakia Split in Half: How the Czech Republic Kept a Banned Flag While Slovakia Started Over
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