Saturday, May 31, 2008

Size matters

The Sons of Confederate Veterans plan to fly the world's largest Confederate flag- thirty by fifty feet- from a 139-foot flagpole near Interstate 75 at Tampa, Florida in 2009.

The project is part of one to place such installations around the state, and will follow existing flagpoles of 62 and 100 feet in other countries. 139 feet- about 14 stories- is as high as federal aviation authorities will allow.

The Star-Spangled Banner, housed in the Smithsonian, was thirty by forty-two feet when originally made.

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As of last year, the largest flag in the world was a State of Israel flag commissioned by a Philippines evangelical Christian and displayed on the ground at Masada, and was 660 meters (2,165 feet) long, 100 meters (330 feet) wide and weighed 5.2 metric tons.

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