At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

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For decades the hippie enclave Arcata has flown three flags at a Veterans Memorial in a plaza at the center of town: one for California, one for the United States, and one for earth. But over the ...

A rumor circulating online in early February 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump's administration replaced the standard 50-star U.S. flag with a nine-star flag on government websites.

The other is on paper, in terms of their actual contracts. It appeared from Day 1 that Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles have made a good connection as former Boston College graduate-assistant coaches.

Today is the last day flags will be flying at half-staff in honor of former President Jimmy Carter. Carter died in Plains, Georgia, Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100. After Carter's death then ...

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Some blasted fireworks between skyscrapers. Others waved oversized Eagles flags. And several did their best to scale the poles that police famously greased in anticipation of Super Bowl parties ...

The magnetic north pole has shifted over 400 km from Canada towards Russia in the past century due to changes in Earth's molten core. Scientists use the World Magnetic Model to monitor this ...

In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s magnetic north and its chaotic and relatively unpredictable movements.