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uhm "The United States Army Institute of Heraldry has plans for flags with up to 56 stars" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Institute_of... http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/

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Six more? Puerto Rico, DC, British Columbia, Baja California, Cuba, and...?

It's interesting to see all the areas worldwide that have, at one time or another and with varying degrees of seriousness, been proposed as new US states. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state

Britain?

Might as well add Sicily, then.

My guess would be DC, the 4 unincorporated, organized territories ( Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands), and American Samoa (the only substantially inhabited unincorporated, unorganized territory).

My guess is that they found a sequence that worked until it hit 56, so they stopped there.

Luna

I like it! Let's throw in L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 too. The new flag starfield:

     ★   ★   ★   ★   ★   ★ L4
       ★   ★   ★   ★   ★
     ★   ★   ★   ★   ★   ★ 
       ★   ★   ★   ★   ★
 L3  ★   ★   ★   ★   ★   ★   L1  ☽  L2
       ★   ★   ★   ★   ★
     ★   ★   ★   ★   ★   ★
       ★   ★   ★   ★   ★
     ★   ★   ★   ★   ★   ★ L5

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