When Flag Day arrives on Wednesday, the day will mark precisely 240 years since the Continental Congress approved the stars and stripes design of the American flag and adopted it as a national ...

To do this, he looked at all the flags we’ve flown throughout American history, found the most common patterns, and figured out which of those patterns worked for a given number of stars.

"We use the 13-star, which is an official American flag, on our logo because of sizing," Lisa ... the flag with the stars in the 3-2-3-2-3 pattern was actually the first official flag of the ...