The poem was a smash hit when it debuted in 1863, making Barbara Fritchie a household name in the North ... old and reportedly confined to bed. Hardly someone who’d grab a fallen flag and ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

Love it, hate it or yawn at it, Minnesota is set to get a new state flag this spring that echoes its motto of being the North Star State, replacing an old flag ... The original Dakota name for ...

Beth and Stephen Scaer say the City of Nashua violated their rights by rejecting their applications to fly what officials considered politically divisive flags in City Hall Plaza. The couple are ...

North Dakota, and a chase reportedly ensued. The chase ended when the SUV crashed into a Mercer County sheriff’s vehicle parked along a state highway. A deputy, later identified as 53-year-old ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

These days, VBS might last only a day, which is “kind of alien to us old buggers,” adds Buchholz ... the oldest LCMS church in North Dakota, distinguishes the communities by their commitment ...

Minnesota's likely new state flag ... Dakota inhabited much of southern and central Minnesota prior to white settlement and are still one of the state’s largest Native American groups, along with the ...

That is the first tenet of good flag design, say flag-making experts at the North American Vexillological Association. In May 2006, the Boston-based group — the largest body of flag enthusiasts ...