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ANSI Art File  |  1990-06-15  |  2KB  |  640x640  |  4-bit (3 colors)
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OCR: 3mThe Flag of the United States The 50-star flag of the United States was raised for the first time officially at 12:01 a.m. on July 4, 1960, at Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, Maryland. The 50th star had been added for Hawaii; a year earlier the 49th, for Alaska. Before that, no star had been added since 1912, when New Mexico and Arizona were admitted to the Union. The true history of the Stars and Stripes has become so cluttered by a volume of myth and tradition that the facts are difficult, and in some cases impossible, to establish. For example, it is not certain who designed the Stars and Stripes, who made the first such flag, or even whether it ever flew in any sea fights or land battles of the American Revolution. One thing all agree on is that the Stars and Stripes ori ...