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The history and design of the world’s flags, written up at length.
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The Herring Salad in the Corner: How Norway Passed a Flag Law Its King Refused to Sanction
· Julio Song · 9 min read
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Five Flags, One Dead Country: How Central America Kept the Stripes of 1823
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Iran's Flag Has a Date Written Along Its Edges: The 22 Takbirs and the Lion They Replaced
· 10 min read
Saddam's Handwriting? The Two Words Iraq Kept on Its Flag and the Hand It Tried to Erase
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India's Flag Had to Be Hand-Spun by Law. Then Came Polyester.
· 8 min read
Tonga Flew a Red Cross Before the Red Cross Did
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Minnesota and Utah Both Replaced Their Flags in 2024. Only Utah Kept the Old One Flying.
· 9 min read
Drawn at a School Desk: The Teenagers Behind the Flags of Alaska, Papua New Guinea and Australia
· 9 min read
A Cloud, a Complaint and a Paint Chip: How Scotland's Saltire Got Its Shape and Its Blue
· 11 min read
Purple, White and Green: How the Suffragettes Turned Three Colors Into a Uniform
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The Flag With a Hole: How Hungary, Romania and East Germany Cut Communism Out of Their Flags
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Three Flags in Twenty Years: How Seychelles Stitched Its Rival Parties Into One Banner
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Blue Over Yellow: The 144-Year Fight to Fly Ukraine's Flag
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Ohio's Swallowtail Flag Is So Odd the State Wrote a Law on How to Fold It
· 9 min read
The Flag Denmark Confiscated, and the One Iceland Got Instead
· 10 min read
Puerto Rico's Flag Was Once Evidence in Court. Now the Fight Is Over Its Blue.
· 8 min read
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
· 9 min read
Brazil's Flag Is a Star Chart of One Morning in 1889
· 8 min read
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
· 8 min read
Why Wales Isn't on the Union Jack
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The Fourteenth Stripe: How Malaysia's Flag Survived Losing a Member State
· 9 min read