Today is the 200th anniversary of the poem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," with fragments of the actual flag which inspired the poem, in the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
On September 13, 1814, British Forces attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. After twenty-five hours of bombardment, they failed to take the Fort. Watching the battle while detained on a British ship, American lawyer Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that was set to music and eventually became the United States national anthem.
Here's a gorgeous, glimmering sculpture of the flag at the entry of the Star-Spangled Banner exhibit at the Smithsonian.
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