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The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
Francis Hopkinson (October 2, [Note 1] 1737 – May 9, 1791) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, author, and composer. [1] He designed Continental paper money and two early versions of flags, one for the United States and one for the United States Navy.
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It has 13 alternate red and white stripes representing the original Thirteen Colonies and the British Union Jack flag, in a square in the upper left-hand corner. [1] 1776 May – A popular legend promulgated by the descendants of Betsy Ross of Philadelphia during the 1870s holds that the seamstress sewed the first American flag. The claim is ...
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Hours before the report was released, an outside attorney representing Worcester, former federal prosecutor Brian T. Kelly, called it “unfair” in a statement to the Telegram & Gazette, part of ...
An Act making an alteration in the Flag of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That from and after the first day of May, Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, the flag of the United States, be fifteen stripes alternate red and white.
Very few of us haven't experienced those strange sounds known as hiccups that sometimes escape our mouths without warning. It's an occurrence we frequently find funny when it happens to others ...