The eight-legged sea creature had two boxes to choose from - one marked with a flag from the Netherlands and another with the flag of Spain - and it was the yellow and red banner he went for.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

Pirate ships often flew the flag of a friendly country as they sailed toward the ship they planned to rob.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

I said, "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit, And that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it".

VOA: special.2010.07.02

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there, When Washington took it across the Delaware.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

"Your forces," he wrote, "fired this morning on a civilian ship flying the flag of my government.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

The behavior of a fishing boat is mainly the responsibility of the nation whose flag it flies.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

Brown sent out one of his men and one of the prisoners with a white flag.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The photograph shows six men and an American flag during a battle in World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

They raised the pirate flag -- with its picture of a skull and crossed bones.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Some American citizens live in places that do not have a star on the flag.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

When he reached the top, Marines were tying the larger flag to a heavy pole.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

And we answer a listener question about the meaning of the stars on America's flag.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The white stars are in rows in a blue rectangle on the American flag.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

And,we hear a poem about the American flag by country singer Johnny Cash.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The soldiers appear to be walking up a hill, toward an American flag.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

"Ragged Old Flag" tells a story from the American flag's point of view.

VOA: special.2010.07.02