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John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry . [ 1 ] He was awarded BookTrust 's Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2021.
The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it. [9] An urban myth claimed that if the flag touched the ground, it had to be destroyed under the Flag Code; however, it has been affirmed by the American Legion and state governments that this is not the case. [10] [11] The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery.
The Flag Act of 1777 ("Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, 8:464".) was passed by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, in response to a petition made by a Native American nation on June 3 for "an American Flag." [2] As a result, June 14 is now celebrated as Flag Day in the United States.
Prior to the All-American Act, the U.S. government was permitted to purchase flags containing 50% American-made materials. [2] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the value of U.S. imports of American flags was $4.4 million in 2015, of which more than $4 million worth of imported flags came from China. In 2017, the U.S. imported $10 million ...
Erik Agard (fl. 2018–present), American crossword puzzler; Ernesto Agard (born 1937), Panamanian basketball player; E. Theo Agard (1932–2017), American medical physicist; John Agard (born 1949), playwright, poet and children's writer from Guyana; Laura Agard (born 1989), French football player; Melissa Agard (born 1969), American politician
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a bill that would require the state Department of Insurance to review rate-hike requests from home insurers within 60 days as companies pull back from the market due ...
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After Donald Trump's historic guilty verdict, a steady flow of images showing upside-down American flags has appeared on social media as his supporters and right-wing commentators protest his ...