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A red saltire (diagonal cross) on a white background, with the seal of Florida superimposed on the center. The current flag was adopted in 1985, when the state seal was last changed. The basic design, however, dates back to 1900, when the design was approved by voters in a constitutional amendment. [3] 1985 15.012 [4] State day/week: Pascua Florida
A welcome sign into Pennsylvania, bearing the slogan "Pursue Your Happiness" This is a list of tourism slogans for each of the 50 states in the United States of America, as adopted by each state's departments for handling tourism.
The University of Florida fielded its first official intercollegiate sports team (football) in the fall of 1906. It adopted orange and blue as its official colors, combining the blue and white of the former Florida Agricultural College in Lake City with the orange and black of the former East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, the university's two oldest predecessor institutions.
The Florida Board of Education approved new standards Wednesday in a 216-page document detailing how public schools should approach Black history, including teaching students that some Black ...
The Florida Secretary of State is the official custodian of the seal. [5] Use or display of the seal must be for an official purpose and approved by the Florida Department of State. [5] One exception is that other Florida state or local agencies can use or display the seal for official business if approved by the head of their agency. [6]
In a discrepancy, however, a later version of the state seal depicts a steamboat with a white flag that includes a red saltire, similar to Florida's current flag. [ citation needed ] In the late 1890s, Florida governor Francis P. Fleming advocated adding a red St. Andrew's Cross so that the flag would not appear to be a white flag of truce if ...
The 26th annual Florida Missing Children's Day Ceremony was held Sept. 9, 2024. In an effort to inform the public about child abductions, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement asked students ...
Some Florida parents tell CNN they feel the new education standards for Black history – combined with the ban on the AP African American studies course – risk erasing Black history in classrooms.