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The crazy flag designs … that could have been our new flag

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A 48-star US flag, the size of a single bedroom apartment, has draped a Minnesota community in red, white and blue mystery | CNN

While cleaning for their annual fair, among the cobwebs and dust, community members in Waseca County, Minnesota, spotted an enormous parcel wrapped in oil cloth tucked into the eaves of a historic cabin on display inside a fairgrounds…

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A 48-star US flag, the size of a single bedroom apartment, has draped a Minnesota community in red, white and blue mystery | CNN

While cleaning for their annual fair, among the cobwebs and dust, community members in Waseca County, Minnesota, spotted an enormous parcel wrapped in oil cloth tucked into the eaves of a historic cabin on display…

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