How many stars are there on our flag?
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The original "Stars and Stripes" flag had 13 stars.  The flag has been revised several times as new states were admitted to the union.  The revisions have given us flags with 15, 20, 21, 23, 24, 31, 35, 37, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, and currently 50 stars on the flag.
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Ok, how about this:\n\nAstronomers estimate that there are at least 70 sextillion (7×10^22) stars in the known universe. That is 230 billion times as many as the 300 billion in our own Milky Way.\n\n(shamelessly stolen from Wikepedia)
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A sample of some of the questions on the United States citizenship test!!!\n\n1. What are the colors of our flag?\n\n2. How many stars are there in our flag?\n\n3. What color are the stars on our flag?\n\n4. What do the stars on the flag mean?\n\n5. How many stripes are there in the flag?\n\n6. What color are the stripes?\n\n7. What do the stripes on the flag mean?\n\n8. How many states are there in the Union?\n\n9. What is the 4th of July?\n\n10. What is the date of Independence Day?\n\n11. Independence from whom?\n\n12. What country did we fight during the Revolutionary War?\n\n13. Who was the first President of the United States?\n\n14. Who is the President of the United States today?\n\n15. Who is the vice-president of the United States today?\n\n16. Who elects the President of the United States?\n\n17. Who becomes President of the United States if the President should die?\n\n18. For how long do we elect the President?\n\n19. What is the Constitution?\n\n20. Can the Constitution be changed?\n\n21. What do we call a change to the Constitution?\n\n22. How many changes or amendments are there to the Constitution?\n\n23. How many branches are there in our government?\n\n24. What are the three branches of our government?\n\n25. What is the legislative branch of our government?\n\n26. Who makes the laws in the United States?\n\n27. What is the Congress?\n\n28. What are the duties of Congress?\n\n29. Who elects the Congress?\n\n30. How many senators are there in Congress?\n\n31. Can you name the two senators from your state?\n\n32. For how long do we elect each senator?\n\n33. How many representatives are there in Congress?\n\n34. For how long do we elect the representatives?\n\n35. What is the executive branch of our government?\n\n36. What is the judiciary branch of our government?\n\n37. What are the duties of the Supreme Court?\n\n38. What is the supreme court law of the United States?\n\n39. What is the Bill of Rights?\n\n40. What is the capital of your state?\n\n41. Who is the current governor of your state?\n\n42. Who becomes President of the United States if the President and the vice-president should die?\n\n43. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?\n\n44. Can you name thirteen original states?\n\n45. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death."?\n\n46. Which countries were our enemies during World War II?\n\n47. What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union?\n\n48. How many terms can the President serve?\n\n49. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?\n\n50. Who is the head of your local government?\n\n51. According to the Constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible to become President. Name one of these requirements.\n\n52. Why are there 100 Senators in the Senate?\n\n53. Who selects the Supreme Court justice?\n\n54. How many Supreme Court justice are there?\n\n55. Why did the Pilgrims come to America?\n\n56. What is the head executive of a state government called?\n\n57. What is the head executive of a city government called?\n\n58. What holiday was celebrated for the first time by the Americans colonists?\n\n59. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?\n\n60. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?\n\n61. What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence?\n\n62. What is the national anthem of the United States?\n\n63. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?\n\n64. Where does freedom of speech come from?\n\n65. What is a minimum voting age in the United States?\n\n66. Who signs bills into law?\n\n67. What is the highest court in the United States?\n\n68. Who was the President during the Civil War?\n\n69. What did the Emancipation Declaration do?\n\n70. What special group advises the President?\n\n71. Which President is called the "Father of our country"?\n\n72. What Immigration and Naturalization Service form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen?\n\n73. Who helped the Pilgrims in America?\n\n74. What is the name of
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70 sextillion according to this site\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/07/22/stars.survey/
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This would have been the flag from 1859-1861.  The 33rd star was added for Oregon.
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The 50 stars represent each of the 50 states.  The red stripes on the flag represent the lives that our ancestors lost fighting to make this a free country.
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The number of stars in the visible universe is estimated to be 70 sextillion, or 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 [seven followed by twenty-two zeros].\n\nor\n\nWikipedia claims that the observable universe contains about 7 × 1022 stars, organized in about 100 billion galaxies, which themselves form clusters and superclusters. An Ask the Scientist response to this question claimed that there are about 10 billion (10^10) stars in an average galaxy, \nand there are about 10 billion galaxies that we can observe in the universe, so the answer is 100 billion billion or 10^20. I don't think it is an issue that we have a precise answer for as yet.
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In 1860 there were 33 states when we took the Census that year.  However South Carolina Suceeded fromthe Union in December making that total only 32.  The Union Flag had 34 Stars on it at the Beginning of the Civil War in April of 1861.   Kansas having entered the Union in January of 1861.
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13 stripes, 50 stars\n\n13 original colonies & 50 states
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3 times\n\n3 stars at the top of the national sign of Germany represents their 3 world cup championships won in history.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_national_football_team
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For 140 years (1819-1959), the Union Jack flew over Singapore. Then, on 3 December 1959, the National Flag, an important symbol of independence, was unveiled at the installation of the new Head of State, the Yang di-Pertuan Negara. Also unveiled that day were the State Crest and the National Anthem. The flag was conceived and created by a committee headed by the then Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Toh Chin Chye.\n\nThe Flag consists of two horizontal halves, red above white. Red symbolises universal brotherhood and equality of men; white, purity and virtue. In the upper left corner, a white crescent moon and five white stars form a circle. The crescent moon represents a young nation on the rise. The five stars stand for Singapore's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.
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Go to the website www.usflag.org\n\nKeep in mind that we were not the US as we are today. The Civil War was\nabout northerners and southerners. Therefor the south was the confederate flag, and norhterners were the stars and stripes. Keep in mind the flag for the north was too similar to the confederate.  The union flag was two red stripes seperated by one white stripe. There were seven stars representing the seven northern states.\nThe confederate or known as the Confederate Battle Flag consisted of eleven stars inside the two bars making an "X"  the 11 stars represented the 11 confederate states including Kentucky and Missouri.\nIt is not until after the civil war did we adopt the flag that we know to day. give or take the stars which represent  the 51states.
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There are 13 stripes on the US flag, representing the original 13 colonies.\n\nHere's a link to a full explanation of the colors and construction of the US flag...
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No one can say for certain. Matter of fact we don't know exactly how many stars there are in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Most guestimates for the Milky Way run to about 250-billion stars. Then there are about 250-billion other galaxies in the observable universe, each with more or less 250-billion stars each. A reasonable ball park figure for total number of stars in the observable universe would be approximately---approximately!---   5^22. That's 5 followed by 22 zeros.
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we really don't know how many stars are in the sky. new ones are found every day and others blow up. so i guess the number in infinite.\n\nas for the black hole, somewhere in our galaxy and in other places too.
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Brad is right; there are around 3000 stars visible to the naked eye at a given moment under good seeing conditions. There are around 8000 visible in the whole 4pi sky.\n\nOur galaxy, the Milky Way, contains about 10^11 (100 billion) stars. There are about 10^11 galaxies, so about 10^22 stars in the whole universe.
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star spangled banner?