Sunday show 06-14-15
Flag Day
Today is Flag Day! On
May 30, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential
proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14. Many
Americans celebrate Flag Day by displaying the Red, White and Blue in
front of homes and businesses.
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Flag Etiquette
Here are some facts
about how to handle, and display the U.S. Flag. I concentrated on the
areas that I have seen abused in the past, taken from 4USC6.
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Five myths about the
American Flag
1. Betsy Ross made the
first American flag.
The Betsy Ross story is
the most tenacious piece of fiction involving the flag. There simply
is no credible historical evidence — letters, diaries, newspaper
accounts, bills of sale — that Ross (then known as Elizabeth
Claypoole) either made or had a hand in designing the American flag
before it made its debut in 1777.
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Baby born nearly 2
months after his mom declared brain dead leaves hospital
The infant son born of
a brain-dead woman who was kept on life support so he could develop
and survive has left an Omaha hospital.
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Zoo Animals Escape Amid
Flooding in Former Soviet Republic
Severe flooding in the
Georgian capital left at least 12 people dead Sunday and triggered a
big-game hunt across the city for lions, tigers, a hippopotamus and
other dangerous animals that escaped from Tbilisi's ravaged zoo.
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'Jurassic World' Bites
off Biggest Global Debut of All Time
Dinosaurs are anything
but extinct at the box office. "Jurassic World," the fourth
film in the series, became the highest global opener of all time with
a staggering $511.8 million in its first days in theaters. It also
devoured a number of domestic box office records with a $204.6
million take, the Rentrak media-measurement company estimated on
Sunday.
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Goodbye, Straw Poll—How
the GOP Is Punishing Its Long-Shot Candidates
Between the death of
the Iowa Straw Poll and a new, two-tiered debate system, Republican
candidates who are struggling to break into the top tier of
presidential hopefuls (such as Carly Fiorina or Rick Santorum) lost
two key opportunities to build early momentum—and take aim at the
contest's front-runners—before voters started to cast primary
ballots.
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Gitmo detainees sent to
Oman signaling restart in transfers
Six detainees at the
Guantanamo Bay detention center, including two alleged Usama bin
Laden bodyguards, have been transferred to Oman, the Pentagon said
Saturday.
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Senator wants to take
Jurassic pork off table for good
From a railroad theme
park in Pennsylvania to a science center in San Francisco, a range of
earmark projects have lived on long after the kind of earmarks that
spawned them were banned, according to a new report released Thursday
called "Jurassic Pork."
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Get Your Ground Beef
Game in Gear
Pretty soon—like,
this weekend — you're going to fire up that grill and throw on a
burger or four. So let's talk ground beef.
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