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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Flag Week: Betsy Ross May Not Have Made The First Flag, But She Really Did Make Flags
Description: This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about flags and those who fly them. In this episode from January 2023, the story of Betsy Ross, whose backstory is pretty interesting even if it didn't go quite how the legends tell it. Plus: a village in Austria with an expletive for its name makes a big change.
Betsy Ross likely didn’t sew the first U.S. flag (National Geographic)
Betsy Ross (Museum of the American Revolution)
Austrian village of ‘Fucking’ decides to change its name (Deutsch Welle)