Every country has a flag to represent it. In the United States, Old Glory's familiar red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes ...

While the crescent and star symbols signify the country ... the African National Congress, the red, white and blue are reminiscent of the flags of the European colonists and the former Boer ...

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 ...