Star-spangled banner
In Penn Station, there are a number of American flags hung vertically from the stars end of their short side, probably due to the lack of wind and lack of space. First of all, I wonder whether there are any laws on flag-hanging. I remember reading as a kid some guidelines covering the ratio between the flag size and its supporting flag-pole – the specifics I don’t remember. Secondly, hanging it this way makes the 50 stars slant slightly (all to the same degree, funnily enough).
Instead of one of the five points facing skywards (like the star on the left), they face left-wards (or rightwards, depending on which side of the flag you’re looking at), meaning that the upper-most point is 18 degrees off (like the star on the right). This seems very out of sorts for America.
On a separate, but flag-based point, each of the 50 stars represents a state (Canada doesn’t get a mention), but I was wondering whether there was any significance of the five points on the star or the 13 stripes. Anyone?
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Stripes were for original colonies/states or something in the union – ask a USAian – must learn all that stuff in the cradle