In the case of Scotland, use of a blue background for the Saint Andrew's Cross is said to date from at least the 15th century, with the first certain illustration of a flag depicting such appearing in Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount 's Register of Scottish Arms, circa 1542.
Dennis Johnson, a brilliant defensive player who helped propel the Seattle SuperSonics and the to N.B.A. championships, died yesterday in Austin, Tex. He was 52. The cause was a heart attack, the National Basketball Association said.
February 16, 2011 | By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun. Harry Thomas Walker Jr., a retired Howard County public school educator who had served in the Peace Corps during the 1960s, died Saturday of heart failure at the Heartlands senior community in Ellicott City. The Roland Park resident was 66.