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.
Johnsonâs family didnât accept the story, hiring an independent examiner to perform a second autopsy. That one suggested Johnson died of blunt force trauma to the head. In an autopsy, organs are removed and examined before being returned to the body for burial. However, when Dr. Bill Anderson, the independent pathologist who performed Johnsonâs second autopsy, opened the teenager up, he found his brain, heart, lungs, liver and other organs missing.