Emoji, the little icons and characters that you send and receive every day, fall under the jurisdiction of the Unicode Consortium. The Consortium is the organization responsible for maintaining ...

Flags signaled other units in battle, but were also a tangible manifestation of the beliefs and spirit of a group of people. As such, flags were protected to the point of injury or death. Men in ...

Narrator: Proposers also need to make sure their emoji align with Unicode's 13 mandatory selection factors, turning their proposals into 10-page documents that include an overall explanation of ...

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The Isle of Sark will shortly get its own flag emoji. Unicode Consortium made the announcement in July but the flag will appear as and when platforms like Google, Facebook, X, Android and ioS ...

Transgender flag and women in tuxedos among new emojis ... In total, 117 options will be added in 2020 as part of the "Emoji 13.0" update.

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

ATLANTA — On Wednesday, many in Georgia wondered why they saw flags flown at half-staff. This is what we found. Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive order on Oct. 21 to lower flags to half-staff ...

Learn more. QUESTION 5: An Act to Restore the Former State of Maine Flag, Do you favor making the former state flag, replaced as the official flag of the State in 1909 and commonly known as the ...