Did you know that the nation of Russia has a Flag Day?  The flag that they now fly over their country has been a national symbol that existed since the seventeenth century.  Of course, when it was part of the Soviet Union, this flag was not seen.  Back in 1991, there was much political unrest within the country.  A military […]

Hopefully we all recognize this as the flag of the UK, and it was on this date in 1606, that  royal decree was made for this Union Jack flag to be the official flag of Great Britain.  While the term “Union Jack” was not a part of this, it is what we now call this flag.  It took the Cross […]