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.
Johnson himself thought an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. 'Oh, man, I am going to die. I think it's over,' he remembers telling the doctor who gave him the news, according to PBS. At the time of Johnson's announcement, AIDS had become the No. 1 cause of death for men between the ages of 25 and 44. By the end of that year, nearly 258,000 people had been diagnosed with AIDS in the United States, and over 157,000 people had died from the disease.