Springer, 2014. - 341 p. Many national flags display astronomical features–Sun, Moon, stars–but are they really based on existing astronomical objects? The United States flag sports 50 stars, one for each state, however none of them are linked to real stars. Further, the lunar crescent is often shaped like the Sun being eclipsed by the Moon. At times, stars are seen right next...
Foreword by Nelson DeMille — St. Martin's Griffin, 2006. — 352 p. The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation's history. Yet the history of the flag, especially its origins, is cloaked in myth and misinformation. Flag: An American Biography rectifies that situation by presenting a lively, comprehensive, illuminating...
Foreword by Nelson DeMille — St. Martin's Griffin, 2006. — 352 p. The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation's history. Yet the history of the flag, especially its origins, is cloaked in myth and misinformation. Flag: An American Biography rectifies that situation by presenting a lively, comprehensive, illuminating...
2003. - 131 p. Introduction – Vexillology poised between past and future page. Part 1 – Four decades of vexillology. Vexillology emerges as organized discipline – 1960-2000. Signal Accomplishments. Vexipublications. FIAV. Vexillological societies. Cybervexillology. Flags of the World (FOTW). NAVA’s website. Difficulties and challenges. Vexipublications. FIAV. Vexillological...
Edinbourg: Bivouac Books LTD, 1976. - 113 p. ISBN: 0894020331 It has not been my intention in compiling this book to attempt to give a complete encyclopedia for flags and standards of the Napoleonic era. Such an undertaking would produce an immense work running into several volumes and requiring a lifetime's research. This book contains information on the flags and standards of...
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