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unusual facts about American flag



A Return to Salem's Lot

As the vampires' evil nature becomes clear, the anthropologist is joined by a Nazi hunter (played by Samuel Fuller) who helps him save his son, and at the climax the master vampire is impaled on the American flag instead of the traditional stake.

Aurelio Tolentino

The script called for tearing of the American flag, which was seen by some Americans in the audience.

Betsy Ross House

The Betsy Ross House is a landmark in Philadelphia where Betsy Ross purportedly lived when legend says she made the first American Flag.

Champion Racing

In fact, this livery was used on all Champion Racing entered cars, except for the special Stars & Stripes variation, using the blue and read colors of the American flag only, as tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks.

Christian Fleetwood

Now carrying the American flag, Fleetwood continued forward under heavy fire until it became clear that the unit could not penetrate the enemy defenses.

Colton Liberty Flag

The Colton Liberty Flag is an American flag which is flown continuously over Mount Slover in Colton, California, United States.

Constance Ford

Born in The Bronx, Ford initially worked as a model, and her face became famous in the Elizabeth Arden 1941 advertising campaign for Victory Red lipstick, which featured a Philippe Halsman photo showing her face against the American flag.

ESPN25

During the Headlines show about 9/11, ESPN aired the entrance of Dallas Cowboys defensive back George Teague entering Texas Stadium with the American flag when the NFL resumed play after the attacks; otherwise, it had to air still photographs whenever the league was mentioned.

Flag of Nashville, Tennessee

The seal displays a Native American holding a skull standing by a tobacco plant, an eagle, and a badge-shaped shield decorated in a style similar to the American flag.

Ginnie Wade

A monument to her, designed by Gettysburg resident Anna M. Miller, was erected in 1900 that includes an American flag that flies around the clock.

Homerazzi

Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying) Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures.

House on Ellicott's Hill

When he arrived on February 24, he set up camp on the bluff atop which the house is located, raising the American flag for the first time over the new territory.

Louis R. Lowery

The first American flag raised and planted on Iwo Jima was too small to be seen easily from the nearby landing beaches, so a second, larger replacement flag with a longer and heavier flag pole was raised and planted by five Marines and a Navy corpsman resulting in the famous photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1945.

Prom Night III: The Last Kiss

While in the school, Alex is approached by Mary Lou, and the two ultimately have sex on the American flag in a hallway.

Raymond Jacobs

Jacobs spent his later years working hard to prove that he was the Marine radio operator photographed by Louis R. Lowery, (a photographer with Leatherneck magazine), standing beneath the first American flag raised by Marines on Mount Suribachi.

The Latin American Xchange

During the November 16 episode of Impact!, LAX nearly burned the American flag, as they promised one week earlier, but were stopped by Petey Williams.


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Battle of Fajardo

The sailors seized the "Faro de Las Cabezas de San Juan" (Cape San Juan lighthouse), posted the American flag and ordered the lighthouse keepers to continue working.

Battle of Ganghwa

Under heavy fire, Carpenter Cyrus Hayden planted the American flag on top of the Korean fort, an act which earned him the medal as well.

Button Gwinnett

In Season 1 of Mr. Show, Button Gwinnett was played by Jack Plotnick in a skit surrounding the origin of the American flag's design.

Cammy Myler

She earned her best finish of fifth in the women's singles event in Albertville at the 1992 and was elected by her teammates to carry the American flag during the opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

Capture of Guam

Some thought the expedition was to hoist the American flag over the Caroline Islands and remain there until reinforcements arrived for a stronger descent upon Manila.

Charles W. Lindberg

The first U.S. flag was raised and planted on top of Mount Suribachi from 10:20 to 10:37 a.m.; the second flag raising about 1 p.m. Captain Dave E. Severance, the commander of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, ordered Lt. Schrier to take a patrol to raise an American flag at the summit to signal to others that it had fallen.

Chuck Reed

Chuck Reed has gained many nicknames during his tenure in office including "Mr. Integrity", "the Anti-Ron Gonzales", and "Captain America" due to his habit of sporting the American Flag.

Creech Grange

Lawrence was an ancestor of the first American President, George Washington, and the joint arms of the two families - the famous stars and stripes of Washington's signet ring and the American flag - appear in memorials at Steeple and Affpuddle.

Electrical Water Pageant

All floats then change to the American Flag & Stars as they have been doing since 1971: (9 Piece) - "You're a Grand Old Flag", "Yankee Doodle", & "America the Beautiful"

Frederick Whymper

While in the far north, Whymper served on the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition, the Western Union Telegraph Expedition (1865), spending the winter of 1866 at Nulato, Alaska with W.H. Dall and travelling up the Yukon River to Fort Yukon, where he witnessed the first American flag being raised over the new territory of Alaska.

GamePro

This magazine feature's section was renamed as "Code Vault" in 2002, to match the name of GamePro's short-lived cheat-code spinoff magazine, although the change could also be credited to 9/11, as the December 2001 issue cover (which featured Luigi's Mansion) featured the "GamePro" logo dressed in the American flag to commemorate the event, and the name was changed just one issue afterwards.

Golden Girl

She had adapted her name slightly to Betsy Ross — the name of the U.S. colonial-era woman to whom legend ascribes sewing the first American flag — by the time that Captain America's sidekick, the second Bucky (Fred Davis) was shot and wounded.

James Roark

Roark was nominated for the Pulitzer prize in 1976 for his photograph of Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday saving an American flag from being burned by two protesters.

Mar-A-Lago

All fines were dropped and Trump contributed $100,000 to various charities for Iraq War veterans, the American flag or veterans' hospitals.

Mark Frechette

He appeared on the Merv Griffin Show alongside Abbie Hoffman when the latter controversially wore the American Flag as a shirt and Frechette got in a fight with another guest, which was later discussed during his appearance on the Dick Cavett Show in April 1970 with his Zabriskie Point co-star Daria Halprin.

Moultrie Flag

It therefore became the standard of the South Carolina militia, and when the war officially ended with the liberation of Charleston, on December 14, 1782, it was presented by General Nathaniel Greene's "Southern Continental & Militia Army", as the first American flag to be displayed in the South.

Patrick Henry Brady

He now serves as Chairman of the Citizens Flag Alliance, an organization dedicated to protecting the American flag from desecration.

Prayer of the Refugee

It ends with scenes of the foreign people placing 'Made In USA' and American flag labels on packaged boxes, and the band members toppling various shelves containing such goods, the broken and fallen goods spelling out "Fair trade", and the video ending in an abrupt change to a black screen.

Red Equinox

Ryan and the others are able to hold off the Russians long enough for the door to be repaired; before they leave Rick, wrapped in the rescued American flag, asks for one last favor: to hear the The Star-Spangled Banner before he dies.

Ruse of war

The use of the American flag flown on the RMS Lusitania while crossing through the Irish Sea to avoid attack by German submarines during the First World War was criticized in debate in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Eben Martin of South Dakota, who stated that "the United States cannot be made a party to a ruse of war where the national colors are involved".

Sondra Prill

She would also do the sign-off of channel 12 by singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in front of a superimposed American flag, hugging herself and pretending to move in slow motion.

The Un-Americans

As a result of this, the emblem of the stable was not the Canadian flag, but an American flag flown upside down.