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Robert G. Heft, designer of the current American flag; Edward Heinemann, aircraft designer responsible, wholly or in part, for 20 major military aircraft, including the A-4 Skyhawk light bomber, the F3D Skyknight night fighter and the F4D Skyray carrier-based fighter aircraft; Janet J. McCoy, High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the ...
The current design of the U.S. flag is its 27th; the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777. The 48-star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4, 1959. The 50-star flag was ordered by then president Eisenhower on August 21, 1959, and was adopted in July 1960.
Dolores Heft (born 1934), American actress better known as Dolores Dorn; James Lewis Heft, an American professor; Muhammad Robert Heft (born 1972), Canadian Muslim activist and writer; Robert G. Heft (1941–2009), designer of the 50-star and 51-star versions of the U.S. flag
Public Books, January 7, 2020. "False Flag." Slate, July 30, 2022. Essay disproving Robert G. Heft's claim to have designed the 50-star flag of the United States. "In the ‘Cozy Catastrophe’ Novel, the End of the World Is Not So Bad." The New York Times, January 2, 2023. Essay on the career of British author R.C. Sherriff.
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 ...
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Robert G. Heft, designer of America's fifty-star flag [10] Rex Kern, former Ohio State football quarterback. MVP of 1969 Rose Bowl and NFL player for Baltimore Colts and Buffalo Bills; James A. Lantz, former Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives; Billy Milligan, criminal and focus of Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan
See also: Flags of the U.S. states and territories A 2.00 m × 1.70 m oil painting showing historical US flags. This is a list of flags in the United States describing the evolution of the flag of the United States, as well as other flags used within the United States, such as the flags of governmental agencies. There are also separate flags for embassies and ships. National flags Main article ...