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What are you doing Monday? Why not show your patriotism and fly a flag! This Monday June 14, 2010 is flag day, a day when everyone is encouraged to fly a flag outside their homes and businesses.
In honor of Flag Day here are a few more interesting pieces of trivia about our great Red, White, and Blue:
- When is it appropriate to fly the flag upside down? When you’re in an emergency situation. An upside down flag means “help;” “call the police” “it’s an emergency.”
- Did you know that Francis Scott Key wrote the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the back on an envelope? Ever wonder what the source for music was for it? An old English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.”
- A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags.
Trivia from UShistory.org
Sandi Duncan is the Managing Editor of the Farmers' Almanac. Click here to read Sandi's full biography.Free Weekly eNewsletter
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Wet snow mixed with rain Mid-Atlantic north through New England; slushy accumulations of 4+" possible.
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Accumulating snows Kentucky, Ohio, then clearing. Fair elsewhere.
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