By Donald Frank Utah became the 45th member of the union on Jan. 4, 1896, with Salt Lake City as its capital. Utah is known for having some of the best skiing in the country, and the mountains near Salt Lake City receive an average of 500 inches of snow per year. In 1903, the Utah State Society Daughters of the Revolution (USSDR) presented a state flag to Governor Heber M. Wells. The silk flag, embroidered by Agnes Teudt Fernelius, displayed the Utah State Seal. Each member of the USSDR had...
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Friday, 29 July 2016
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By Albert Frank The official South Dakota Flag was adopted by the state in the year 1963. However according to the records of the South Dakota Flag history, it was altered in 1992, to introduce the nickname of the state. The original South Dakota Flag was adopted in 1909, which featured the state seal of South Dakota on the back while a picture of the sun was on the front. The basic design of the flag was adopted in March 1963. The flag was modified, on July 1, 1992, to include the state's...
Thursday, 28 July 2016
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By Ron Ronalds The Virginia Flag was officially adopted on 30th April 1861. It is gathered from the Virginia Flag history that the state seal emblazoned on the state flag of Virginia was adopted in the year 1776. Though flags similar to Virginia's current flag had flown in the State since the 1830s, Virginia did not adopt an official flag until after it had seceded from the Union in 1861. The remarkable Virginia Flag comprises a deep blue background and the seal of the state is in the center....
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
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By Ronald Nills The flag was adopted in 1863. The current flag dates from May 1, 1981, when Wisconsin and 1848 were added to it. Wisconsin is the 30th state of the union, gaining statehood on May 29, 1848. The flag of Wisconsin consists of a blue base, with the state seal in the center of the flag. Wisconsin is written above the state seal in white and 1848 is written below it. Many were unhappy that the Wisconsin flag could not be easily distinguished from other state flags, owing to its...
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
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By Bert Lampard The Wyoming State Flag was adopted by the State Legislature on 13th January 1917. From the Wyoming Flag history, it is has been gathered that the state did not possess an individual flag even in 1916. On the proposal of Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, a professor at the University of Wyoming, a flag drawing contest was held. The winner, Miss Verna Keays was thus the designer of the Wyoming Flag. The flag of Wyoming consists of a blue center base, which is outlined in thin white and...
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By Norman Wilson The 19th-century territorial seal of Washington had a detailed naturalistic scene with sea and mountains and a woman in the foreground epitomizing hope, surrounded by a log cabin, wagon, and fir forest. At the beginning of the 20th century, many towns and cities throughout the state informally adopted a military flag that displayed a gold profile of our first President on blue bunting. Other flags in use simply centered the state seal on a field of purple or green similar to...
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By Ronny Rodgers During the Middle Ages, flags were used for a variety of purposes including identification of members of nobility, guilds, cities, religious worship, and for use during battles. In battle, flags were used by military companies for identification on the field and relaying of strategic instructions. Though not always, flags could identify individual leaders: in Europe, monarchs and knights; in Japan, the samurai; in China, the generals under the imperial army; and in Mexico,...
Saturday, 23 July 2016
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By Noel Sanches First visited by the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1540, the Tennessee area would later be claimed by both France and England as a result of the 1670s and 1680s explorations of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, Sieur de la Salle, and James Needham and Gabriel Arthur. Great Britain obtained the area after the French and Indian Wars in 1763. For years, Tennessee used a different flag. That one was three bands of red, blue and white, which were all slanted. These stripes...
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By Barry Gold The first Vermont flag was, in fact, a state militia flag that was created in 1803. It mostly consisted of a green background, representing the Green Mountains. Another design was later created that also looked totally different from the current one. It had seventeen stripes and seventeen stars (similar to the U.S. flag), with the state’s name at the top. The Vermont Flag was adopted officially on 1st June 1923. According to the Vermont Flag history, the state was the 4th to...
Friday, 22 July 2016
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By Anastasia Goodwill The one thing that gets people's attention is the 184-foot flagpole that stands up to sea level. The idea of the flagpole was first suggested during a Chamber of Commerce meeting. For the remaining time, the flagpole would be kept an idea rather than coming to a possibility. One of the reason's for that was the cost was too high. Then on the night of October 5, 1957, Calipatria's pharmacist, Harry Momita and wife Helen were in a car accident while on their way to see their...
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By Martin Long Early flagpoles were simply trees selected for their relative straightness that were cut down, stripped of bark and branches, and then replanted in the ground with a flag attached at the top. Over the years, the wood flagpole was improved by shaping and sanding the pole until it was straight and had a smooth finish. More refined wooden posts were made with spruce or pine trees, which normally become straighter than hardwood trees. These trees were stripped of bark and branches...
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
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By Ann White The United States Army is a decorated branch of our military. Like all the other branches, the Army has its own flag and symbols with a rich history that date back centuries ago. The official Army flag consists of a white field with a blue symbol and red ribbon that reads, "United States Army." Below that, the year 1775 is written in blue, which denotes the beginning of the Army. "United States Army" is inscribed in white letters on a scarlet scroll, with the year "1775" in blue...
Sunday, 17 July 2016
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By Adam Sirvestry The land that today makes up Oklahoma was added to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Throughout the 19th century, the U.S. government relocated Indian tribes from the southeastern United States to the area, and by 1900, over 30 Indian tribes had been moved to what was originally called the Indian Territories. The official Oklahoma flag was adopted on 2nd April 1925 by the State Legislature. The Oklahoma flag history states that the design of the...
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By Alex Frank Montana is the fourth largest U.S. state by area, behind Alaska, Texas, and California, but with an average of just six people per square mile, it is one of the country’s least densely populated states. The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806 were the first group of white explorers to cross Montana. Hard on the heels of the expedition arrived the fur trappers and traders. Trappers brought alcohol, disease and a new economic system to native populations. The fur trade was...
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By Sarra Stown Exploration by the Spanish and French, in the 17th and 18th centuries, Oregon was mapped by the Lewis and Clark expedition in their search for the Northwest Passage. Starting in the 1830s, many groups of pioneers traveled to the state on the famous Oregon Trail, and the U.S. began joint settlement of the area with the United Kingdom. In 1846, the border between U.S. and British territory was formally established at the 49th parallel - the part of the territory that was given...
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By Will Scott New Jersey state flag was adopted on March 26, 1896, and in 1938 a law clarified that the right to display the flag was not limited to the governor alone. It is the only flag of the 50 state flags to have a background of buff, although frequently this is incorrectly shown as yellow. Symbols on the state seal: the three plows on the shield honor the state's agricultural tradition. The helmet above the shield faces forward, an attitude denoting sovereignty and thus particularly...
Saturday, 16 July 2016
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By Will Holand Maybe the best-known figure from the American Revolutionary time who wasn't a president, general or statesman, Betsy Ross turned into a symbol in the late nineteenth century when stories surfaced that she had sewn the primary "stars and stripes" U.S. banner in 1776. Betsy Ross, best known for making the first American flag, was born Elizabeth Griscom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1752. A fourth-generation American, and the great-granddaughter of a carpenter who...
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By Mishon Stevens Independence Day yearly celebrated on July 4 and is regularly known as "the Fourth of July". It is the commemoration of the affirmation of freedom from Great Britain in 1776. Presentations and family occasions are sorted out all through the United States. Numerous individuals show the American national banner outside their homes or structures. The flying of the American banner is far reaching. Celebrations of the Fourth of July became more common as the years went on. Independence...
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By Ben Slow Pennsylvania’s flag was first authorized in 1799. The current flag is a more modern version of the same flag. The current design became official in 1907. In the American Civil War (1861-1865), Pennsylvania was the site of the Battle of Gettysburg,in whichUnion General George Meade defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee, bringing an end to the Confederacy’s Northern invasion, as well as Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address. During the phase of the Civil War, the Pennsylvania...
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By Albert Frank Ohio has been home to explorers and innovators as far back as 20,000 years ago. Just experience one of the amazing mounds and earthworks left here by ancients called the Adena and Hopewell. Ohio became a state on March 1, 1803, although no formal declaration was made until 1953 when President Dwight Eisenhower officially signed the documents making it a state, retroactive to the original date. Red, blue and white are strongly related to the national colors of the USA. The...
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By Alisa Ericson The New York Flag was formally adopted in the year 1901 and is said to be a modernized format of a Revolutionary War flag. The New York Flag history demonstrates the manner in which, the current flag came into use. A modern version of a Revolutionary War flag, today's New York State flag displays the State Coat of Arms, adopted in 1778, and centered on a dark blue field. The shield depicts a cloudless sky with a rising sun behind three mountains, the highlands of the Hudson...
Friday, 15 July 2016
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By Swan Kissling On May 20, 1861, the day that the secession resolution was adopted by the state of North Carolina, an ordinance to adopt a state flag was presented by Colonel John D. Whitford. A committee of seven was formed with Colonel Whitford appointed a chairman. The original ordinance stated that "...the flag of this State shall be a blue field with a white V thereon, and a star, encircling which shall be the words, "Sirgit astrum, May 20, 1775." The design intended by this original...
Thursday, 14 July 2016
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By Ivon Klark The land that today makes up North Dakota became U.S.territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The region was originally part of the Minnesota and Nebraska territories, until, along with South Dakota, it was organized into the Dakota Territory in 1861. The fan-shape with thirteen stars above the bald eagle is a symbol of the birth of a new nation, the United States. The name of the state - North Dakota - appears below the eagle on a red scroll. The design is centered...
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By John Raynolds Under an English land grant, Capt. John Smith sent settlers to establish a fishing colony at the mouth of thePiscataqua River, near present-day Rye and Dover, in 1623. Capt. John Mason, who participated in the founding of Portsmouth in 1630, gave New Hampshire its name. The New Hampshire Flag was adopted in 1909 by the State Legislature of New Hampshire, although the original design has been retained from 1784. From the New Hampshire Flag history, it has been gathered that...
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By Anastasia Goodwill Nebraska, which was admitted to the union as the 37th state on March 1, 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, contains some of the nation's best ranchland and farmland. The flag of Nebraska was adopted on 2nd April in the year 1925 and is used ever since. As a notable fact of Nebraska Flag history, it is said that Nebraska was one of those states, which were the last to adopt a flag for their states. The Great Seal as shown on the flag has its origin...
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By Antuan Bernes Nevada is the seventh largest of the 50 states but is one of the most sparsely populated. Carson City, in the western part of the state, is the capital. Gambling is legal in Nevada, and Las Vegas, the state's largest city, is known internationally for its opulent casinos and as an entertainment destination. Nevada is also home to the Hoover Dam, which was the single largest public works project in the history of the United States, and Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the country....
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By Alisia Ronson Iowa was admitted to the union as the 29th state on Dec. 28, 1846. As a Midwestern state, Iowa forms a bridge between the forests of the east and the grasslands of the high prairie plains to the west. Its gently rolling landscape rises slowly as it extends westward from the Mississippi River, which forms its entire eastern border. The Missouri River and its tributary, the Big Sioux, form the western border, making Iowa the only U.S. state that has two parallel rivers defining...
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
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By Bernard Slow First explored for France by Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, in 1679-1680, the region figured importantly in the Franco-British struggle for North America that culminated with British victory in 1763. George Rogers Clark led American forces against the British in the area during theRevolutionary War and, prior to becoming a state, Indiana was the scene of frequent Indian uprisings until the victories of Gen. Settlers from the British colonies on the American east coast began...
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By Albert Gregory No other state has a more varied or colorful past than Louisiana. The state has been governed under 10 different flags beginning in 1541 with Hernando de Soto's claim of the region for Spain. La Salle later claimed it for Bourbon France and over the years Louisiana was at one time or another subject to the Union Jack of Great Britain, the Tricolor of Napoleon, the Lone Star flag of the Republic of West Florida and the fifteen stars and stripes of the United States. At the outbreak...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
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By Antuan Frank While there is evidence that Maine's earliest inhabitants were descendants of Ice Age hunters, the Micmacs and Abanakis (or Wabanakis) were credited with the earliest settlement of Maine. The Micmacs of eastern Maine and New Brunswick were largely a warlike people, while the most numerous Abnakis were a peaceful nation, given to farming and fishing as a way of life. Although dozens of tribes once inhabited the land, only two remain today. The coast of Maine, which may have been...
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By Marta Sheen Kansas has had a dramatic history, even before it became the 34th state. Historians have reported that Native Americans were living in Kansas as early as 12,000 B.C. They were followed for centuries by many different tribes making the history of Kansas entwined with the first Americans. Kansas has long been known as part of America's agricultural heartland and is home to the major U.S. military installation Fort Leavenworth. In 1954, it became a battleground of the civil rights...
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By Morgan Gossling Maryland, constituent state of the United States of America. One of the original 13 states, it lies at the center of the Eastern Seaboard, amid the great commercial and population complex that stretches from Maine to Virginia. Its small size belies the great diversity of its landscapes and of the ways of life that they foster, from the low-lying and water-oriented Eastern Shore and Chesapeake Bay area, through the metropolitan hurly-burly of Baltimore, its largest city, to the...
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By Roy Fright Kentucky was granted statehood in 1792, becoming the first U.S. state west of the Appalachian Mountains. Frontiersman Daniel Boone was one of Kentucky's most prominent explorers and many immigrants followed the trail he blazed through the Cumberland Gap, known as the Wilderness Road. Dr. Thomas Walker and Christopher Gist led the first surveying parties into Kentucky in 1750 and 1751, respectively, but the outbreak of British and Native American battles in the French and Indian...
Sunday, 10 July 2016
04:17
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By Margaret Jeferson Before Illinois became a State, it was known as the Illinois Territory. In early 1818, the General Assembly of the Illinois Territory sent a petition to the United States Congress asking to be admitted into the Union. Part of the process for being admitted as a State was for Illinois to adopt its own constitution. The word Illinois comes from the French word meaning Illini or Land of Illini. It is an Algonquin word meaning Men or Warriors. Illinois was discovered in 1673,...
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