Flags originated on battlefields as a means of identification and hierarchy. Over the years, they have evolved to incorporate symbols significant to the countries they represent. Click through as ...

DE BOECK, FILIP 1994. of trees and kings: politics and metaphor among the Aluund of Southwestern Zaire. American Ethnologist, Vol. 21, Issue. 3, p. 451.

When did the Polish flag appear? What colour is it actually? What is the proper way to display it? What should you do with it when a storm is coming? And who wrote poems about it? Worthy of its very ...

Further motivation could be, he feels slighted in not being invited to carry the torch. One player ... this was conduct ...

Do you think you know the flags of the world? Give the ultimate World Cup flag quiz a go and see how good you really are.

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

History In the early days of the French Revolution, the three colours were initially brought together in the form of a cockade. In July 1789, just before the taking of the Bastille, Paris was in a ...

Just a flag - or a symbol of imperial terror? Fans cheering in a stadium and waving a flag is a staple sight at any international sports event. But what if a flag is so offensive to some countries ...

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 ...

This film is the result of more than two years of work tracking down archive material and witnesses close to Mobutu in Africa, Europe and the U.S. More than 950 hours of footage have been seen by ...

The result is a thing of beauty.”— The Glasgow Herald September 9,1933 about Church of the Torch, Kimuri. The seemingly immortal Church of the Torch, Kimuri in Thogoto township, is an 84-year ...

It's the fact-based story of two marines and a sailor (Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford, Ryan Phillippe) who helped raise the flag over Iwo Jima and then were shipped home to help raise money for the ...