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.
Henry Konietzky Dies From Vibrio Vulnificus, Flesh-Eating Salt Water Bacteria, After Wading In River. A Florida man died after contracting a flesh-eating bacterial infection while wading in a river on Saturday. Henry Konietzky, 59, succumbed to the deadly infection just 28 hours after being exposed while setting crab traps in the Halifax River in Volusia County, according to Click Orlando.