This year’s World Series will sport many flags – American flags and red-white-and-blue bunting, of course, but also the pennants and banners of baseball teams. Just in time for the fall classic, a lost film has surfaced from 90 years ago, and it shows a prominent Old Glory. The silent movie is the only known… continue
It is that time of year again! November is fast approaching and that means our annual No Shave November campaign will soon begin. No Shave November is a special event that was started many years ago as fun way to raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer & cancer research. Last year at Gettysburg Flag… continue
Last month, the anniversary of 9/11 was marked throughout the U.S. with prayers, speeches, memorials – and nearly 3,000 American flags planted on a sloping campus lawn in California. Pepperdine University in Malibu first installed the emotional display in 2007 after a student suggested the idea of honoring an alumnus who had died on Flight… continue
In honor of the 76th Birthday of the Washington D.C. Flag (District of Columbia), we’ve compiled this list of interesting facts. Washington D.C. was part of Maryland for 4 years after the Constitution of the United States was adopted. In 1791 the land was ceded to the federal government to become the nations capital and… continue
The odds are in your favor that the State of Nevada, home of gambling, will change its official flag. After all, it has done so repeatedly. When President Lincoln signed the document accepting the state into the Union 150 years ago, Nevadans came in waving nothing. As noted on its website, “the Legislature did not… continue