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April is the month to fly your flags in 2026!

Is April the cruelest month? It's cruel to people who want to fly U.S. flags often, but only on designated flag-flying dates. (April is also National Poetry Month, so it's a good time to look up poetry references we should have committed to heart; April is also Jazz Appreciation Month). For … Continue reading →
April 14, 2026 2 Replies

1935, polio scare shut down National Scout Jamboree

It's difficult to tell people just how frightened was America of polio.In 1935 Boy Scouts of America (now Scouting USA) planned a National Jamboree in Washington, D.C. Polio outbreaks became epidemic by mid-summer, and authorities decided to postpone the Jamboree. This photo is an aerial shot from … Continue reading →
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2021 Canada stamp honoring Stan Rogers.

Rise again, again: Stan Rogers’s “Mary Ellen Carter”

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Rolling out the American flag at a Nuggets-Pacers NBA game in January 2016.

Flying U.S. flags in January 2026

One problem with January's flag flying dates is that if I snooze a little, you miss a lot. There are four flag-flying dates in the first five days of January: New Year's Day and statehood days for Georgia, Alaska and Utah. You, Dear Reader, are alert and won't let any of those dates pass unmarked … Continue reading →
January 1, 2026 2 Replies

Happy New Year! First flag-flying date of 2026

Image of U.S. flag flying from USAirForce.tumblr.com You did remember that New Years Day is the first day to fly U.S. flags in 2026, under the U.S. Flag Code and other laws and regulations, right? Happy New … Continue reading →
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Retired teacher of law, economics, history, AP government, psychology and science. Former speechwriter, press guy and legislative aide in U.S. Senate. Former Department of Education. Former airline real estate, telecom towers, Big 6 (that old!) consultant. Lab and field research in air pollution control. My blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, is a continuing experiment to test how to use blogs to improve and speed up learning processes for students, perhaps by making some of the courses actually interesting. It is a blog for teachers, to see if we can use blogs. It is for people interested in social studies and social studies education, to see if we can learn to get it right. It's a blog for science fans, to promote good science and good science policy. It's a blog for people interested in good government and how to achieve it. BS in Mass Communication, University of Utah Graduate study in Rhetoric and Speech Communication, University of Arizona JD from the National Law Center, George Washington University

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