A cordon was erected around the team bus with fans gathering around the entrance to the hotel on Princes Street hours before ...

In a world where parents prefer unique baby names with meaningful origins, there’s no better source of inspiration than the land of the free and home of the brave.

POW/MIA flag, and the official flags of each branch of the U.S. armed services to be flown or displayed. Any other flag would need to be approved with a three-fourths majority vote of elected ...

Susie McCabe, the award-winning stand-up who has become one of Scotland’s best-known comedians, has been announced as the first official patron of the education charity Time for Inclusive ...

On Monday, the Common Council’s Steering and Rules Committee voted 5-3 on a resolution to adopt the so-called “People’s Flag” as the official flag of the City of Milwaukee beginning Jan ...

Flag football is an official high school sport in Mississippi. On Tuesday, the Mississippi High School Activities Association, in collaboration with the New Orleans Saints, announced the official ...

Parts of the Hebrides - Lewis, Harris and Barra - have phonebooks listing people's official names alongside their nicknames. Iain Taylor, who lectured at Scotland's Gaelic national centre - Sabhal ...

Every time a lynching occurred in the U.S. between 1920 and 1936, the NAACP flew this flag from their headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York. Library of Congress. Can one flag really change ...

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a stance later cemented as official policy through an executive order. The order outlines that, aside from the stars and stripes, the only flags which are permitted to fly are the Prisoner of War ...

WASHINGTON — It’s time to take pride in the American flag again, President Trump’s State Department said on Tuesday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday banned flying any other flags ...

The largest known Scottish earthquake on land occurred near Loch Awe in 1880, with a magnitude of 5.2. There are roughly 200-300 quakes in Britain every year, but the vast majority are so small ...