The insignia of Apollo 16 is dominated by rendering of an American eagle and a red, white and blue shield, representing the people of the United States, overlaying a gray background, the lunar surface.

A blue law is a type of law, typically found in the United States, Scandinavia and, formerly, in Canada, designed to enforce religious standards, particularly the observance of Sunday as a day of worship or rest, and a restriction on Sunday shopping.

North Dakota may have the strictest remaining blue law of the United States.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The national flag of the United States of America is often simply referred to as the American flag, consisting of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton ( referred to specifically as the " union ") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars ( top and bottom ) alternating with rows of five stars.

The United States and United Kingdom both have red, white, and blue.

The badge of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is in the form of a golden star with white enamel, with a red enamel pentagon behind it ; the central disc bears thirteen gold stars on a blue enamel background ( taken from the Great Seal of the United States ) within a golden ring.

* The Walter Pyramid, home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the California State University, Long Beach, campus in California, United States, is an 18-story-tall blue true pyramid.

" Purple Party " is also used as an academic hypothetical of an undefined party, as a centralist party in the United States ( because purple is created from mixing the main parties ' colours of red and blue ) and as a highly idealistic " peace and love " party -- in a similar vein to a Green Party, perhaps.

In McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that contemporary Maryland blue laws ( typically, Sunday rest laws ) were intended to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest, and that this day coinciding with majority Christian Sabbath neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

Colored toilet paper in colors such as pink, lavender, light blue, light green, purple, green, and light yellow ( so that one could choose a color of toilet paper that matched or complemented the color of one's bathroom ) was commonly sold in the United States from the 1960s.

Map showing the 1750 possessions of Britain ( pink and purple ), France ( blue ), and Spain ( orange ) in contemporary Canada and the United States.

The United States is blue.

The background on the right includes a white tent, above which waves a flag similar to the United States flag, although it has a smaller number of stars on the blue field, arranged in a square.

In the United States red, white, and blue are often used in logos for companies that want to project patriotic feelings.

First, it has no stars on the blue chief ( though other arms based on it do: the chief of the arms of the United States Senate may show 13 or 50, and the shield of the 9 / 11 Commission has, sometimes, 50 mullets on the chief ).

The logo portrays the patriotic nature of the United States, prominently featuring the colors red, blue and white, and Philadelphia's reputation as the birthplace of American independence.

Red means a yes vote while blue means a no vote in the component planes ( except the party component where red is Republican Party ( United States ) | Republican and blue is Democratic Party ( United States ) | Democratic ).

Ancestry according to the United States Census, 2000 | U. S. 2000 census: Counties with plurality of German ancestry in light blue

Though mezcal is not as popular as tequila ( a mezcal made specifically from the blue agave in select regions of the country ), Mexico does export the product, mostly to Japan and the United States, and exports are growing.

Senator Barack Obama ( Democratic Party ( United States ) | D-Illinois | IL ) won the popular vote in 28 states and the District of Columbia ( denoted in blue ) to capture 365 electoral votes.

In a recent academic study that was published in the Journal of Finance, Drexel University ’ s LeBow College of Business professors Jie Cai, Jacqueline Garner, and Ralph Walkling examined how corporate shareholders voted in nearly 2, 500 director elections in the United States.

The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $ 25, 000 a year — a large sum in 1789.

This plan was thwarted for the time being on May 20, 2009, when the United States Senate voted to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States.

Eleven minutes after the declaration went into force, the United States de facto recognised the State of Israel, followed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's Iran ( which had voted against the UN partition plan ), Guatemala, Iceland, Nicaragua, Romania, and Uruguay.

In October 1823 Polk voted for Andrew Jackson to become the next United States Senator from Tennessee.

After the Archbishop of Quebec condemned the Knights in 1884, twelve American archbishops voted 10 to 2 against doing likewise in the United States.

In 1979, Palauans voted against joining the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and the Marianas ( except Guam ) because of language and cultural differences.

After a long period of transition, including the violent deaths of two presidents ( Haruo Remeliik in 1985 and Lazarus Salii in 1988 ), Palau voted in 1994 to freely associate with the United States while retaining independence under the Compact of Free Association.

Paraguay regularly voted in favor of United States policies in the United Nations and the Organization of American States.

After a development similar to the one in the United States during its prohibition, with large-scale smuggling and increasing violence and crime rates, public opinion turned against the prohibition, and after a national referendum where 70 % voted for a repeal of the law, prohibition was ended in early 1932.

* 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U. S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers.

Allen's statue stood in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol until, after a statewide poll run by the Ohio Historical Society, the Ohio National Statuary Committee voted August 26, 2010 to replace him with the statute of inventor Thomas A. Edison.

In the United States, Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

‘ It is unthinkable ,’ remarked School Board Superintendent Benjamin Smith, ‘ that we will try to the laws of the United States .’ In agreement with Smith ’ s position, the school board voted six to one to support the court ’ s ruling.

On Feb. 7, 1973, the United States Senate voted 77 – 0 to approve and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with Sam Ervin named chairman the next day.

On Feb. 6, 1974, the United States House of Representatives voted 410-4 to approve, giving the Judiciary Committee authority to investigate impeachment charges against the President.

In 1868, the islanders voted to sell the colony to the United States but their offer was rebuffed.

Following the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, on April 17, Virginia voted to secede from the United States and joined the Confederate States ( though not officially doing so until May ), and soon thereafter the Confederate government moved its capital from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond.

Fort Worth was the fastest-growing large city in the United States from 2000 to 2006 and was voted one of " America's Most Livable Communities.

In 1861, the hamlet of Town Line located in the Town of Lancaster, voted 85 to 40 to secede from the Union and join the Confederate States of America ; it sent five soldiers for the Confederate Army, and did not officially rejoin the Union until January 1946.

An elected convention voted to secede from the United States on February 1, 1861, and Texas joined the Confederate States of America on March 2, 1861.