It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer "still there." The effects of age brought it down — something the British failed to do 186 years ago. That giant flag, one of the Smithsonian's ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the ... the onset of the War of 1812, a fleet of British Royal Navy vessels lingered in Maryland ...

Over the years other things have happened to the banner. Armistead's widow ... in the heat of the British bombardment, a smaller flag that was used during bad weather, called a storm flag, very ...

and British emblems.” The banner was designed in Dublin in 1923 and is based on the flag of the traditional province of Ulster. It was adopted as the flag of Northern Ireland by Stormont in 1953 ...

Leepson: This is about the flag and its movement ... people and those who flew to the side of the British. And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and ...