After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Commodore Robert Stockton had invaded California and had raised the American flag over the territory.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

And he ordered the state flag raised over all other federal property in the city.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

The United States flag was raised over Alaska.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Mrs.Aquino's coffin, draped in the Philippine flag and laid over a bed of yellow flowers, was carried in a large truck Monday through a section of Manila's EDSA highway: the site of the "people power" movement she led in 1986 that overthrew the authoritarian Marcos government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03