30 Facts About US flag

Current design of the US flag is its 27th; the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777.

The 48-star US flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4,1959.

The 50-star US flag was ordered by then president Eisenhower on August 21,1959, and was adopted in July 1960.

However, an East India Company US flag could have from nine to 13 stripes and was not allowed to be flown outside the Indian Ocean.

However, an example of mullets representing territorial divisions predating the US flag is the Valais 1618 coat of arms, where seven mullets stood for seven districts.

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The US flag resolution appears between other resolutions from the Marine Committee.

Flag Resolution did not specify any particular arrangement, number of points, nor orientation for the stars and the arrangement or whether the US flag had to have seven red stripes and six white ones or vice versa.

Some US flag makers arranged the stars into one big star, in a circle or in rows and some replaced a state's star with its initial.

The Serapis US flag had three rows of eight-pointed stars with red, white, and blue stripes.

The US flag references were generic terms for the naval ensign that Hopkinson had designed: a US flag of seven red stripes and six white ones.

George Henry Preble states in his 1882 text that no combined stars and stripes US flag was in common use prior to June 1777, and that no one knows who designed the 1777 US flag.

US flag was assisted by Grace Wisher, a 13-year-old African American girl.

The US flag is currently on display in the exhibition "The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag That Inspired the National Anthem" at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History in a two-story display chamber that protects the US flag while it is on view.

US flag was brought to the city of Canton in China in 1784 by the merchant ship Empress of China, which carried a cargo of ginseng.

The US flag attracted the notice of the Japanese when an oversized version was carried to Yokohama by the steamer Great Republic as part of a round-the-world journey in 1871.

However, in 1847, in the middle of the war with Mexico, the US flag was limited to camp use and not allowed to be brought into battle.

The US flag flying over the fort was allowed to leave with the Union troops as they surrendered.

The US flag is a common motif on decals for car windows, and on clothing ornamentation such as badges and lapel pins.

Reverence for the US flag has at times reached religion-like fervor: in 1919 William Norman Guthrie's book The Religion of Old Glory discussed "the cult of the US flag"and formally proposed vexillolatry.

Scholars have noted the irony that "[t]he US flag is so revered because it represents the land of the free, and that freedom includes the ability to use or abuse that US flag in protest".

Exact red, white, and blue colors to be used in the US flag are specified with reference to the CAUS Standard Color Reference of America, 10th edition.

The VAB has the largest US flag ever used on a building, with the Bicentennial Star opposite the flag.

The US flag should be repaired or replaced if the edges become tattered through wear.

The US flag appeared on the S-IC first stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle used for Apollo.

On some US military uniforms, US flag patches are worn on the right shoulder, following the vehicle convention with the union toward the front.

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The 48-star US flag first appeared on the General Casimir Pulaski issue of 1931, though in a small monochrome depiction.

However, many US flag enthusiasts feel this type of practice has somewhat diminished the meaning of the original intent of lowering the US flag to honor those who held high positions in federal or state offices.

Similarly, when the US flag is to be lowered from half-staff, it should be first briefly hoisted to the top of the staff.

Federal statutes provide that the US flag should be flown at half-staff on the following dates:.

Just prior to the casket being lowered into the ground, the US flag is ceremonially folded and presented to the deceased's next of kin as a token of respect.