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2. Betsy Ross flag - Wikipedia

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   The Betsy Ross flag is an early design for the flag of the United States, which is conformant to the Flag Act of 1777 and has red stripes outermost and stars arranged in a circle. These details elaborate on the 1777 act, passed early in the American Revolutionary War , which specified 13 alternating red and white horizontal stripes and 13 white ...

3. Betsy Ross - Wikipedia

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   Elizabeth Griscom Ross (née Griscom; [1] January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836), also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, [1] was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 [2] with making the second official U.S. flag, [3] accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag.

4. What is the meaning of Flag Day? - AOL

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   Flag Day marks the day, 246 years ago, when Betsy Ross' creation of the Stars & Stripes as our national American flag. Here's how to display a U.S. flag.

5. Flags of the United States Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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   The most commonly carried pre-1777 flags was the Grand Union Flag, resembling closely the flag of the British East India Company. The Gadsden flag was created from a political cartoon, it was first seen carried into battle by Continental Marines. Legend holds that the Betsy Ross flag was the first version of the current American flag, and is ...

6. We the People: Flag Day is this week, and what you know ... - AOL

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   Many remember learning the story of Betsy Ross and the original American flag at some point in their life. Images show Ross, a seamstress from Philadelphia, sewing the original red, white and blue ...

7. Betsy Ross House - Wikipedia

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   The Betsy Ross House is a landmark in Philadelphia. It is purported to be the site where the upholsterer and flag-maker Betsy Ross (1752–1836) lived when she is said to have sewed the first American flag.

8. Five-pointed star - Wikipedia

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   The Betsy Ross flag (documented 1792) [3] Flag of Pakistan (1947) Flag of Puerto Rico (1895) The five-pointed stars on the flag of the United States were introduced in the Flag Act of 1777. The Flag Act did not specify any particular arrangement, number of points, nor orientation for the stars and the arrangement. [4]

9. The US Olympic team's logo only has 13 stars for a simple ...

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   Amid all the patriotic cheers for Team USA Olympians in Rio, some have questioned the patriotic accuracy of the logo for the U.S. Olympic Team