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  2. Flag of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The national flag of the United States (Spanish: Bandera Nacional de Estados Unidos), often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton, referred to as the union and bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where ...

  3. United States Flag Code - Wikipedia

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    The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the national flag of the United States of America. It is part of Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code ( 4 U.S.C. § 5 et seq ). Although this is a U.S. federal law, [1] the code is not mandatory: it uses non-binding language like "should" and "custom ...

  4. National symbols of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Great Seal of the United States (obverse) (reverse) 3. National animal: Bald eagle: 4. National mammal: American Bison: 5. National anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" "The Star-Spangled Banner" 6. National motto "In God We Trust" E pluribus unum. 7. National floral emblem: Rose: 8. National march "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

  5. Vertical service code - Wikipedia

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    Vertical service code. A vertical service code ( VSC) is a sequence of digits and the signals star (*) and pound/hash (#) dialed on a telephone keypad or rotary dial to access certain telephone service features. [1] Some vertical service codes require dialing of a telephone number after the code sequence. On a touch tone telephone, the codes ...

  6. United States military aircraft national insignia - Wikipedia

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    History U.S. Army Signal Corps Curtiss JN-3 biplanes with red star insignia, 1915 Nieuport 28 with the World War 1 era American roundels. The first military aviation insignias of the United States include a star used by the US Army Signal Corps Aviation Section, seen during the Pancho Villa punitive expedition, just over a year before American involvement in World War I began.

  7. Ensign of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Adopted. June 14, 1777 (13-star version) July 4, 1960 (50-star version) Design. Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 50 white stars on a blue field. Designed by. Unknown, possibly Francis Hopkinson. The Grand Union Flag. The ensign of the United States is the flag of the United States when worn as an ensign (a ...

  8. Flag Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Flag Acts are three laws that sought to define the design of the flag of the United States. All the submitted suggestions were remarkably short, the shortest being a sentence of 31 words, and the longest being a title and two sentences of 117 words. The brevity of the Acts leave a lot of ambiguity since neither the size or shape of the flag ...

  9. Hedy Lamarr - Wikipedia

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    Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actress and inventor.After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.