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| FLAG TRIVIA
flag (flag) n. A piece of cloth commonly bearing a device and attached to a staff or halyard: used as a standard, symbol, or signal. See COLOR, ENSIGN, GUIDON, PENNANT, STANDARD.
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According to pictographs on temple and tomb walls, Egyptian soldiers carried poles capped with an image of a god to which colored streamers were tied. These were probably the first "Flags."
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The Roman Legions carried poles carved with various devices, usually with an eagle at the top, the number of the legion and the legion's battle citations. This early standard was called a signum.
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The word flag when used to describe a standard, banner, pennant or ensign comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word, "felogan," meaning, "to float in the wind."
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The Danish banner is the oldest national flag. It has kept its basic design and colors without change for over 750 years.
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All Scandinavian flags have the same pattern, using different colors. No other country's flag uses this pattern
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The American flag is said to have been named Old Glory by William Driver, a sea captain of Salem, Mass. His daughter said he named it at his 21st birthday celebration in 1824, when his mother presented the home-made flag to him.
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Did You Know That... The red on the U. S. flag proclaims the courage which the men and women of our nation have always shown. The white stands for liberty. It marks the American Flag as the emblem of personal and religious liberty, and the blue stands for loyalty of thousands of men and women to their country through thick and thin.
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