More than 3,500 miles from the Capitol, Selby Abbey is home to the Washington Window, one of the one of the oldest surviving ...

Red and white became the official colours of Poland as late as in 1919. The appearance of the Polish flag was inscribed in the law about the coats of arms and colours of the Polish Second Republic.

The revolutionary flag was created by cutting the despised communist coat arms arms from the national flag. The media coverage of the event showed the revolution spreading across the country.