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Double giant flags mark Flag Day in Sandy
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
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Paul Fraughton Salt Lake Tribune To commemorate Flag Day, Colonial Flag Company in Sandy raised their 30' x60' American flag after a brief ceremony. The Challenger School's corporate headquarters, across the street from Colonial, raised an identical
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GQ: What is Flag Day and how did it get started?
San Luis Obispo :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
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by John Reger There's a tradition this week that many people let slip by...Tonight's Good Question: What is Flag Day and how did it get started?...It commemorates June 14th, 1777, when the Second Continental Congress decided on the Stars and Stripes
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Protests policing 'not tough enough'
Belfast :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
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Terry Spence, chairman of the Police Federation, said tougher action should have been taken during disturbances, including early use of plastic bullets. Loyalist protests followed Belfast City Council's vote to limit the flying of the union flag from
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Floating salute to the Queen: Her 60th coronation anniversary is celebrated with a 100-boat pageant at Henley (and her supporters wore joke masks of the royals)
London :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
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2 June 2013 0 shares 0 View comments The Queen may be keeping the 60th anniversary of her coronation low key, but there was no stopping her most loyal subjects today. Around 100 boats took part in a river pageant at Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, to
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Ex-serviceman Brian Fairfield ordered to take down Union Flag after neighbours complained it was 'too noisyi¿½
London :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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Brian Fairfield was told to take down the Union Jack from his house in Hull, East Yorkshire An ex-serviceman was forced to remove a flagpole flying a Union Jack from his garden after neighbours complained it was too noisy'. Brian Fairfield , from
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Cenotaph flag plan to be rejected
Belfast :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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Cenotaph flag plans at Belfast City Hall need Alliance support BBC NI Political Correspondent The union flag used to be flown at Belfast City Hall on every day of the year, prior to a council vote on 3 December 2012 A proposal to have the union flag
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Peers in EU enlargement warning
Brussels :: Belgium | 4 months ago
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Peers want more vetting of EU applicant states After Croatia joins the EU in July there will be 28 member states The European Union should be more careful to ensure countries respect human rights and democracy before they join the EU, a group of
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Baggott defends PSNI impartiality
New York :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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He added that the police must work to "regain the confidence" of a section of the unionist community...He added that politicians had made the task of policing flag demonstrations even more difficult because they had failed to reach agreement on the
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Parades body outlines flag row role
Belfast :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Parades Commission has "no role" in majority of union flag protests Flag protests have been taking place since 3 December The Northern Ireland Parades Commission has said it has no role to play in the vast majority of union flag protests. In a
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Nesbitt: 'Call off flag protest'
Belfast :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Nesbitt calls for organisers to call off weekly protest Mike Nesbitt has called for Saturday's flag protest to be called off. The leader of the Ulster Unionist party Mike Nesbitt has called on the organisers to call off this Saturday's flag protest
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