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 (CNN) There have been many variations of the American flag throughout history, but only one that can lay claim to inspiring the national anthem. 
 
 It was sewn together on the floor of a brewery and took 11 men to hoist up the flagpole. After a night of British bombardment, it still flew over Fort McHenry during the "dawn's early light" on September 14, 1814, as Francis Scott Key wrote in "The Star-Spangled Banner." 
 
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 That was more than 200 years ago but our flag is still inspiring people like CNN's Mike Rowe to trace its history. 
 
 So, what makes the American Flag so special? One word: Simplicity. 
 
 Ted Kaye, who literally wrote the book on good flag design titled "Good Flag, Bad Flag," says "flags should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory." 
 
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 No one noticed state flag, ranked among the most poorly designed in US, was hoisted incorrectly for over a week, prompting local lawmaker’s push for redesign 
 
 Nebraska needs new flag after flying it upside down for 10 days, politician says 
 
 A state senator campaigning for the Nebraska flag to be redesigned has revealed the banner was displayed upside down for 10 days before anyone noticed. 
 
 Burke Harr, who represents the eighth district in Omaha, said the flag had been hoisted incorrectly on top of the Nebraska state capitol building. 
 
 “It took someone drawing it to my attention before it was changed,” Harr told the Nebraska state executive board on Monday, according to the Omaha World Herald. 
 
 Harr said the fact no one was able to tell that the Nebraska flag was upside down showed that the banner was ready for reform. He is sponsoring a resolution which would see the flag redesigned. 
 
 The current flag is essentially just the Nebraska state seal plonked on to a royal blue background. Critics have said the flag is crowded and hard to recognize. 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Maryland’s state flag was ranked the worst on the website Thrillist. Nebraska was 49th. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo 
 
 It depicts a blacksmith with a hammer, a steamboat on a river, a steam train chugging past some mountains, some trees, a little house, and the Nebraska state motto: “Equality before the law.” These items are enclosed in a double-ringed gold circle, which bears the words “Great seal of the state of Nebraska” and the date 1 March 1867. 
 
 “That’s fine for a state seal,” Harr said, “but a flag needs to be instantly identifiable.” 
 
 The Nebraska flag has consistently been ranked among the worst designed of the US flags. 
 
 Ted Kaye, who wrote a book on flag design called Good Flag, Bad Flag, put the flag bottom in his list of flags. 
 
 “Try identifying this flag when it’s up on a pole and flapping in the wind,” Kaye said to CNN, referring to the Nebraska state standard. Given the 10 days the flag spent upside down, it seems people might struggle. 
 
 The website Thrillist ranked the Nebraska flag 49th out of 50 states. (Maryland’s was ranked worst.) 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest New Mexico’s state flag, among the best. Photograph: selensergen/Getty Images/iStockphoto 
 
 “You don’t draw a guy in a robe trying to smash through a tree stump, you just don’t,” Thrillist wrote, apparently referring to the blacksmith shown on the flag. 
 
 In 2001 the North American Vexillogical Association ranked Nebraska’s flag as the 49th-poorest of all 50 states, and as the 71st-worst (out of 72) “subnational and territorial flags” in the US and Canada. NAVA found that Georgia had the worst flag. The state subsequently updated its flag in 2003. 
 
 Kaye wrote that a good flag “should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory”, should “never use writing of any kind or an organization’s seal” and should “be distinctive”. The Nebraska flag would appear to fail on all counts. 
 
 One problem is that there are quite a lot of state flags which feature some sort of symbol on a blue background. Montana, Kansas, South Dakota and Minnesota, which Kaye ranked 49th, 48th, 47th and 46th respectively, all share that design. 
 
 His favorite flag is New Mexico’s yellow and red pennant, which Kaye said recalled the state’s Spanish and Native American heritage, while he also praised the Texas and Arizona flags. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.
– Time to change Nebraska's flag? That's what some are saying after the banner flew upside down over the state Capitol for 10 long days, the Omaha World-Herald reports. "Nobody noticed it," says state Sen. Burke Harr. "It took someone drawing it to my attention." Now Harr is calling for a task force to redesign the flag, which shows a busy state seal "plonked" against a royal blue background, per the Guardian. It includes a steamboat, a train, and a blacksmith pounding away with a hammer, plus the state motto, "Equality before the law." It's not the first time the state symbol has been ridiculed. The North American Vexillological Association ranks it among the five worst state flags, and Thrillist ruled that only Maryland's was uglier. "You don’t draw a guy in a robe trying to smash through a tree stump, you just don’t," the site chided. When it comes to terrible state flags, there's apparently a race to the bottom. The good ones are "far outnumbered by the terrible ones," the author of Good Flag, Bad Flag once told CNN. A bid in 2002 to change the flag fell flat, but now Nebraskans appear ready for a makeover. An ad exec who designed the state's 150th anniversary logo as a stylized ear of corn emphasizes the need for simplicity. "It's galling" the flag "doesn't embody" the "uniqueness" that is Nebraska, adds the director of the state's art council. (Flying a flag upside down can send an unintentional message, as Facebook found out.)