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  2. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette - Wikipedia

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    West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624 (1943), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public school.

  3. Langley Research Center - Wikipedia

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    Langley Research Center performs critical research on aeronautics, including wake vortex behavior, fixed-wing aircraft, rotary wing aircraft, aviation safety, human factors and aerospace engineering. LaRC supported the design and testing of the hypersonic X-43, which achieved a world speed record of Mach 9.6 (11,800 km/h; 7,310 mph).

  4. Grace Slick - Wikipedia

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    Grace Barnett Wing was born October 30, 1939, in Highland Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, to Ivan Wilford Wing (1907–1987), of British descent, [4] and Virginia Wing (née Barnett; 1909–1983). [5] Her parents met while they were both students at the University of Washington in Seattle, [6] and later married. In 1949, her younger brother ...

  5. 710th Combat Operations Squadron - Wikipedia

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    The 710th Combat Operations Squadron is a reserve unit, stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, where it has augmented the 610th Air Operations Center since its activation in March 2004. Its first predecessor was established in Alaska in 1952 as the 710th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron and provided air defense radar coverage ...

  6. United Public Workers v. Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    If granted power is found, necessarily the objection of invasion of those rights, reserved by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, must fail. [ 22 ] Justice Reed then used a traditional balancing test to weight the infringement of First and Fifth amendment rights against "a congressional enactment to protect a democratic society against the supposed ...

  7. VFA-11 - Wikipedia

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    Strike Fighter Squadron 11 (VFA-11) is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, United States. The squadron was established in 1950 and is nicknamed "Red Rippers" (call sign "Ripper"). VFA-11 is equipped with the Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet and currently assigned to Carrier Air Wing One.

  8. Harry F. Byrd - Wikipedia

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    Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization.

  9. VF-114 - Wikipedia

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    Another version of the badge, with Greek motto misspelled. VF-114 was established as Bombing Fighter Squadron (VBF-19) on 20 January 1945, at NAS Alameda, California.Soon thereafter, Bombing Fighter Squadron, VBF-19 moved to NAS North Island, California, where it first flew the Grumman F6F Hellcat and then the Vought F4U-4 Corsair.