At the height of a measles pandemic in 1862, a genre of ukiyo-e woodblock prints known as “hashika-e” (literally, measles pictures) disseminated a mountain of gossip and hearsay. One bit of ...

The flag of Amsterdam is based on the city’s coat of arms. It features a red shield with a black band and three silver St. Andrew’s crosses, with the motto of Amsterdam underneath (Heldhaftig, ...

Imagine her shock when the restaurant owner tells her that it's a Greek flag, not an Israeli flag. The TikToker says, "My bad," and tries to downplay the situation while the restaurant owners continue ...

Violent philippics were hurled against the people of the North -- threats of an exterminating war were freely indulged in -- and the usual alarming apparition of a "black flag," with death's head ...

By Deborah Solomon Betsy Ross, the sewing heroine of our childhoods, is no longer credited as the creator of the American flag. Historians insist the maker of the flag remains unknown ...

RAF personnel and intelligence gathering aircraft have taken part in a major US led NATO exercise from Greece, a first of its kind Exercise: Ramstein Flag Combining the live and synthetic training ...

And the culmination of an unprecedented political marketing campaign focusing on the Palestinian Arab flag. Three horizontal stripes—black, white, and green—overlaid with a red chevron near ...

After months of debate and thousands of submissions, Minnesota has unveiled a new flag to replace a design many Native Americans considered offensive. The proposed state flag, which features a ...