At a time when President Donald Trump is implementing numerous potential changes to the United States government, people became aware of nine stars on American flags on official government websites.

Just a quick question, though: do you know how many stars and stripes are on the American flag? It seems a like a question that any citizen would know the answer to, sure, but there's actually ...

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...