Almost every flag in the extensive collection of world flags is recognizable as rectangular. But among all the nations, there are two exceptions—nations with perfect squares for their official flags.

FLAGS OF THE WORLD : THEIR HISTORY BLAZONRY AND ASSOCIATIONS FROM THE CRUSADER TO THE BURGEE OF THE YACHTSMAN FLAGS NATIONAL COLONIAL PERSONAL THE ENSIGNS OF MIGHTY EMPIRES THE SYMBOLS OF LOST CAUSES ...

Online exhibit using a selection of objects from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to illustrate the use and meaning of the flag during World War II. Shows how the flag, ...

Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969. But that seminal event in ...