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Venezuela Changes Flag

By , About.com GuideApril 16, 2006

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Venezuela has modified their flag, slightly. Instead of seven stars in the middle blue stripe, there are now eight.

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April 16, 2006 at 1:18 pm
(1) Daniel (Venezuelan) says:

FYI, that flag was changed by Simon Bolivar in 1817 from 7 stars to 8 stars.
Venezuela became part of a union of countries a few months later and when Venezuela went back to being an independent country people went back to the flag with 7 stars instead of the one with 8 stars

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