From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 11:41:40 MST
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> Originally, states got stars AND stripes. The US flag got up to 15
> or 18 stripes before they realized that it would grow too fast. They
> then decided to go back to 13 stripes and just add stars.
>
> Also be aware that the traditional stars and stripes is technically
> our wartime flag. There is a peacetime flag that nobody ever sees.
Good heavens.
http://www.flagday.com/history/hornswoggled/index.shtml
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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