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History Lessons

Utah’s flag was wrong for decades

Salt Lake City's original flag. (State of Utah)

The British author Rudyard Kipling liked flags, but not Utah. The state doesn’t care because, for one thing, it’s more interested in marking the 120th anniversary of its entry into the United States on Jan. 4, 1896. It’s also interested in its state flag, which was wrong for years. Kipling wrote a poem titled “The… continue