SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Heavy rains in San Antonio rapidly flooded roads, swept away submerged cars and sent some people scrambling up trees to escape fast-rising waters Thursday while firefighters made ...

A 1949 federal law designated Flag Day to honor the date in 1777 on which the Continental Congress approved the first national flag design. But local observances started as early as 1885.

Betsy Ross interpreters, like Nina Gold ... “We do have a receipt for the second flag that she made for Washington, from about a year later in 1777, and we know from oral history that she contributed ...

The other is the Betsy Ross Colonial flag with 13 stripes and 13 stars ... Executive Orders entered in connection with that Section) made of fabric, cloth or paper displayed from a staff or ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most ... "She continued to tell the story of how she made the first American flag to her children and grandchildren," the museum reports.

“Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes ... abc27 newsletters here Elizabeth Griscom Ross, better known to us as Betsy Ross, lived in Philadelphia.

The flag raising event was held at the Betsy Ross House Courtyard in Old City this morning at ... and helped gift the city its first Lombardi Trophy, has made a comeback as the Philadelphia Eagles ...

We don't really know who made the first American flag ... to our thoughtful love of America" each year. Did Betsy Ross make the first flag? Betsy Ross, the famed Philadelphia seamstress, is ...

She had become the Betsy Ross of Israel. From 1949 until the ... Her love for Israel will always be seen in the flag that she made and in the impact she had on her niece, Prof.

She accepted the commission but made one significant change to ... rented shop space when she sewed that first flag still stands today. “Betsy Ross House” is now a museum where someone dressed ...