During the Civil War, no flag became a more popular symbol of Union loyalty than the worn and imperiled standard belonging to 19th-century sea captain William Driver, who was originally from Salem ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was supposed to mark a turning point, but for the Baltic nations—Estonia ... when a rickety oil tanker flying the flag of the Cook Islands was caught ...

At Government House, the Union Jack also flew to mark the funeral of Ian Hansen This Thursday March 6th, the Falkland Islands flag and the Union Jack flew at half-mast in remembrance of the former ...

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...