These flashy events, which kick off each games, aim to tell fresh stories about the host city and country, and set new creative standards for live mega-events.

Paris Games will host the first opening ceremony since 2018 that doesn’t have to work around pandemic restrictions.

Editor’s note: FollowOlympics opening ceremony live updates. It was Stephen Curry, perhaps the most famous first-time ...

The Phrygian cap may be over 3,000 years old, and has ties to figures throughout history, from mythical King Midas to Paul ...

National Flag Day is observed ... throughout the Mauryan empire during the first serious attempt to unite all of India under ...

LeBron James might be the most recognizable person to be the United States flag bearer at the Olympics, but the tradition is ...

The day the sun went down on this part of the British Empire, on June 30 ... watching the lowering of the British flag at midnight – on television, through the window of a bar.

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.

There are no days left, only hours until Olympic fervor reaches its peak. The opening ceremony, which consistently generates ...

There were American flags at every entrance with beautiful ... from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American ...

and not many books had been written about the thousands of Indian soldiers who fought under the British flag in the empire’s many wars overseas. While the past few years have shed additional ...

Demonstrators at a pro-Israel rally hold flags in front of a protest encampment ... The greatest empire in the history of the world, until the British Empire, was the Roman Empire.