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ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG PUZZLES ARLINGTON TIME CAPSULE EXPLORERS

onservators in the US have opened a ‘memorabilia box’ placed in the hollow cornerstone of Arlington Cemetery Memorial Amphitheater in 1915. Among the contents of the copper box was an old-fangled US flag – just 46 stars adorn the tiny silken flag, though at the time the capsule was sealed there were 48 states in the

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