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  Betsy Ross Homepage
Betsy Ross's daughter, Rachel Fletcher, testified in 1870, the following: "[The committee] showed her a drawing roughly executed, of the flag as it was proposed to be made by the committee, and that she saw in it some defects in its proportions and the arrangement and shape of the stars.
As Betsy Ross prayed in the pew next to George Washington and had already sewn buttons for him, and she was a niece of George Ross, it is not exceptional that these members of the Flag Committee formed by the Continental Congress would call upon Betsy Ross to make the flag.
The Betsy Ross Homepage was launched on January 1, 1996, the 244th anniversary of Betsy Ross's birth.
www.ushistory.org /betsy/index.html   (1157 words)

  
 The Betsy Ross Legend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Betsy Ross, having put away the breakfast dishes in her basement kitchen, was getting ready for a busy day when three gentlemen (including General George Washington) appeared at her doorÂ… General Washington lost no time.
Betsy’s second husband and father of two of her children, Joseph Ashburn (whom she married in 1777), died in 1782 while being held as a prisoner in the Old Mill Prison.
Betsy’s third husband, John Claypoole, (whom she married in 1783), had been imprisoned with Betsy’s second husband, Joseph, in the Old Mill Prison after being captured at the battle of Germantown.
home.comcast.net /~ray.ammerman/betsyross.html   (1028 words)

  
 Betsy Ross House - History - Are We There Yet?
Built in 1740, this nine-room house was occupied by Betsy Ross and her husband John from 1773 to 1786.
Born Elizabeth Griscom, Betsy was the eighth child of seventeen in a family of Quakers.
The Quakers, considering interdenominational marriages to be bad, "read" Betsy "out" of the Quaker meeting house, cutting her off completely from both her religious community and her family.
www.fieldtrip.com /pa/56275343.htm   (445 words)

  
 Betsy Ross - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Betsy Ross (January 1, 1752 - January 30, 1836) is reputed to have sewn the first American flag.
She was born Elizabeth ("Betsy") Griscom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was the eighth-born out of the seventeen children of Samuel and Rebecca Griscom who were both members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (her father was a master builder).
Some historians believe that it was Francis Hopkinson and not Betsy Ross who designed the official "first flag" of the United States (13 red and white stripes with 13 stars in a circle on a field of blue).
voyager.in /Betsy_Ross   (854 words)

  
 Bayesian Essay Test Scoring sYstem
BETSY is a windows-based program that classifies text based on trained material.
Betsy was developed by Lawrence M. Rudner, now of the Graduate Management Admission Council, formerly with Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 with funds from the the U.S. Department of Education.
Some evaluations of Betsy are being made possible with funds from the Maryland State Department of Education.
www.edres.org /betsy   (83 words)

  
 www.BetsyByars.com - Welcome
She especially values her many state awards which were voted on by the readers of the state.
Betsy attended public schools in North Carolina and graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, NC with a major in English.
Betsy lives with her husband Ed on an air strip in South Carolina.
www.betsybyars.com   (224 words)

  
 AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of The Betsy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
‘The Betsy’ is one of those rare films that benefits from being modified from the widescreen to full-screen aspect ratio.
Actually, it’s the other way round as ‘The Betsy’ was made in 1978 and ‘Dynasty’ and its ilk didn’t show up until the ‘80s.
Otherwise, ‘The Betsy’ is simply an oddity, an unacknowledged forerunner of the sort of fare that ruled the tube a decade ago and can still be caught in syndication today.
www.audiorevolution.com /dvd/revs/thebetsy.html   (665 words)

  
 Betsy's Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Before you accept the media and the Democrats' conclusions that there were no contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda before the war as published in the Senate report that Chuck Hagel and Olympia Snowe gave a bipartisan gloss to, go read Thomas Jocelyn's report on the report in The Weekly Standard.
The Media Research Center has done a study of how the nightly news has covered the war on terror to show that the major focus has been on the threat to our liberties rather than on the terrorism such methods might be preventing.
Right now she has a decent lead over Mike McGavick, but a story showing that she quickly got involved in the scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-yours atmosphere in the Capitol may be the help that McGavick needs to close that gap.
www.betsyspage.blogspot.com   (8894 words)

  
 PUREPOLITICS.COM - Betsy Ross "Have Fun"
Betsy replied, "I don't know whether I can, but I'll try." After the completion of the flag, the flag was submitted to Congress, which unanimously adopted it as the American Flag.
It is almost without exception; however, historians assail the accuracy of the Betsy Ross Flag Story.
Like the George Washington cherry-tree legend, the Betsy Ross Flag story is intriguing.
www.purepolitics.com /edu/amerflags/betsyross.htm   (132 words)

  
 The Betsy
The Betsy though is spread out over too many characters for anyone to really take control of the movie and its yawn-inducing Detroit automaker universe doesn't isn't exactly the sort of industry that captures your interest.
So even though we're supposed to be rooting for the ambitious Angelo and his oldster mentor in their quest to build the car that will put BMC back in the fl, we can't help but agree with dirty, underhanded Loren Hardeman III (Duvall) when he complains that this car is going to sink the company.
The girl that played Betsy is awful and completely unnatural in every one of her scenes, while the rest of the female cast is reduced to mere sex partner status.
monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /Betsy.html   (1645 words)

  
 The Betsy Movie Poster
You don't have to imagine too hard to see that the zany high-jinks of that slap-happy real-life automotive family up in Dearborn, Michigan was the inspiration for this sappy melodrama.
The Betsy turns out to be a fuel-sipping, computer controlled, gas turbine-engined vehicle (disguised as a Pinto) which gets 60-mpg and accelerates like a Boss-429 Mustang.
Okay, okay, The Betsy is usually ranked as one of the alltime bad movies ever made.
www.sd455.com /moviebetsy.htm   (638 words)

  
 Miami Beach Boutique Hotel :: Betsy Ross Ocean Drive
At the Betsy Ross Hotel, you'll be steps away from white sandy beaches and minutes from everything South Beach has to offer: world-class restaurants, internationally renowned nightlife, boutique shopping, museums, and historical landmarks.
While the focus may be on location, location, location, the Betsy Ross Hotel is more than a pretty face in the right place at the right time.
A spacious, relaxing lobby with a front row view of all of the action on Ocean Drive and a complimentary continental breakfast are just a few of the boutique amenities that guest enjoy.
www.betsyrosshotel.com   (315 words)

  
 Education World® : Lesson Plan: The Betsy Ross Story: Truth or Legend?
Nevertheless, Canby's story, told many years after the flag was first flown and after Betsy Ross died, has become the basis for many accounts of how the flag came to be.
It details five of the points historians raise about the Betsy Ross story and provides space for students to write counterpoints based on classroom discussion or on information from Betsy Ross and the Flag: Point-Counterpoint.
Encourage a group of students to draft a script that brings to life William Canby's version of the Betsy Ross story, as told in The History of the Flag of the United States.
www.education-world.com /a_lesson/02/lp267-05.shtml   (907 words)

  
 Betsy Steiner : Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Betsy Steiner and Associates is a search and consulting firm that serves software companies in Silicon Valley and other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Over the years, Betsy has successfully matched hundreds of candidates to positions such as chief technical officers, vice presidents of engineering, senior level RandD executives, engineering managers, software architects, quality assurance managers, technical leads, and highly skilled individual contributors.
Betsy also consults on a variety of related issues such as recruiting strategies, career development, and team building.
www.steinersearch.com   (113 words)

  
 The Betsy Plank/PRSSA Scholarship
This program is open to all PRSSA members enrolled in a program of undergraduate public relations study who are in their junior year or beginning their senior year.
Betsy Plank was the PRSA President in 1973, and the first woman to lead the Society, as well as the chair of the U.S. Section of International Public Relations Association (1980-81).
She was the first person to receive three of PRSA's top honors for professionals--the Gold Anvil in 1977 as the outstanding U.S. Professional, the Paul Lund Award in 1989 for her exemplary civic and community work, and the first Jackson Award in 2001 for distinguished service to the Society.
www.prssa.org /resources/award-BetsyPlank.asp   (810 words)

  
 Betsy's Bed & Breakfast
Betsy's Bed and Breakfast occupies two Victorian homes within walking distance of the State House, Vermont College and many great shops and restaurants in downtown Montpelier.
Take time to rock on the front porch or enjoy the terraced garden in warm weather; when it's cold, curl up by the cherry fireplace in the parlor.
Ask Betsy to make migas, a heavenly scrambling of eggs with green chiles, cheese and crumbled tortilla chips.
www.betsysbnb.com   (257 words)

  
 DVD's - The Betsy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Laurence Olivier plays a ruthless but fallible auto tycoon with a tortured family history including a weakling son (Paul Rudd), a daughter-in-law he loves too much (Katharine Ross), a resentful grandson (Robert Duvall), and a devoted great-granddaughter (Kathleen Beller) to whom he bequeaths most of his fortune.
Angelo builds The Betsy (the car), seduces Betsy (the great-granddaughter), and even has a fling with Duvall's mistress, played by the haughty Lesley-Anne Down.
Lavishly produced, The Betsy has been formatted for the small screen, which doesn't allow us to fully enjoy the elaborate sets.
www.dvd-universe.com /d/Robert_Duvall/The_Betsy_6305308829.htm   (198 words)

  
 Betsy Byars, Author Study
Betsy Byars was born in 1928 in Charlotte, North Carolina and some of her books are set in that area.
Betsy Byars' latest addition to the easy to read genre is My Brother, Ant (Viking, 1996 ISBN 0670866644.
Ant is Anthony, the younger brother of the narrator and their relationship is explored in these short chapters.
www.carolhurst.com /authors/byars.html   (1039 words)

  
 The Betsy Steiner Dressage Team
Jessie has ridden with Betsy Steiner all her life and decided to make Dressage her career after completing her college education at Millikin University.
They are enjoying their time in the FEI ring and look forward to continued success.
At Betsy Steiner Dressage, Jessie has horses in training and gives daily lessons to her in-barn clients.
www.betsysteiner.com /staff.html   (186 words)

  
 The Betsy Ross House
Betsy and her husband, John Ross, lived here and ran their upholstery business out of the house as well.
Other businesses occupied the House, after Betsy moved from here in 1786, until it was acquired by the Betsy Ross Memorial Association.
In 1937, the building was donated to the city of Philadelphia and restored with the monetary assistance of radio-manufacturing millionaire Atwater Kent.
www.ushistory.org /betsy/flaghome.html   (556 words)

  
 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Black, Mrs Betsy
Burns mentions her in a letter, dated 21xt June, 1783, from Lochlea, to his cousin, James Burness in Montrose, in connection with taking 'a small present of cheese' to him.
There is also a note in the memorandum of Miss Isabella Begg, Burns's niece: 'My mother's recollections of Betsy Black are quite fresh.
She belonged to Kilmarnock, had gone to the neighbourhood of Montrose to act as housekeeper in some gentleman's family, and had got acquainted with Mrs Burness, who sent messages and letters by her when she returned to see her relations in Ayrshire.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/BlackMrsBetsy.99.shtml   (364 words)

  
 The Betsy (DVD). Was $9.97 Now $6.29
THE BETSY, directed by Daniel Petrie and based on Harold Robbins`s sordid potboiler about several generations of an American car manufacturing dynasty, stars Laurence Olivier as 90-year-old Loren Hardeman, who rules the family with an iron fist.
The clan, nonetheless, is constantly involved in intrigues and affairs ranging from adultery to abuse of power.
The Betsy is Loren`s dream car, named after his doting great-granddaughter (Kathleen Beller), and he hires Angelo Perino (a young and seductive Tommy Lee Jones) to help him secretly create the economical, efficient vehicle.
www.dvd-1.com /t/The-Betsy.htm   (232 words)

  
 Landon Rabern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The command line is the same as Betsy, but the book option has been removed.
To make Betsy castle in Winboard, drag the rook you want to castle with and drop it on top of your king.
I am working on Betsy again and I will be posting versions up here frequently when I think it is better.
userfs.cec.wustl.edu /~lwr1   (500 words)

  
 The Betsy Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Betsy's often get called "Becky", "Bessie", or "Betty", or misspelled "Besty".
Included are "Betsey", "Betsi", "Bitsy", and the really different "Betcei" (I considered "Betzi" for a while myself).
Now, when I search the web I find that not only are there lots of other Betsy's, but even lots of other Betsy Riley's.
www.brws.com /betsy.html   (195 words)

  
 The Betsy
Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this is the story of Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer (Lord Olivier) who pins his future on The Betsy, a "wonder car" named after his daughter (Kathleen Beller).
The Betsy is designed to last practically forever, which doesn't rest well with the "planned obscolence" mindset of the auto industry.
Flashbacks cover his career from his 40s to the present, when he is in his 90s.
www.djangos.com /item_movie.asp?id=V+++++5154   (108 words)

  
 Betsy Haynes of Marco Island Florida Author of Bone Chillers
Betsy has written over seventy books, several of which have been acclaimed by organizations such as the American Library Association.
Betsy will be doing more than just watching her BONE CHILLER books unfold on the television screen.
That was the genesis of the book, ATTACK OF THE KILLER ANTS, in which two boys were captured by giant ants and taken down into their tunnels to become slaves.
www.marco-island-florida.com /bone/chillers.htm   (550 words)

  
 USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - The Betsy Ross Flag
Since there was no official flag during the first year of the United States, there were a great number of homespun flag designs.
There are many reasons why this flag is confused with the first official U.S. flag and you can read about it here.
The Betsy Ross Flag is available for purchase from my friends at U.S. Flag Depot, Inc.
www.usflag.org /betsy.ross.flag.html   (99 words)

  
 WeirdSpace Encyclopedia: Betsy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Story: Betsy is the ever-present secretary at the BVD.
Like Willemse she has to put up with Hendrik IJzerbroot's strange arrivals at the office.
Betsy does however interact more with the characters in the series than Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond movies.
www.weirdspace.dk /Martin%20Lodewijk/Betsy.htm   (91 words)

  
 Betsy Little Real Estate - Serving Norfolk, Colebrook, Lakeville & Salisbury in Litchfield County, Connecticut
If you are looking for property in the beautiful Northwest Corner of Connecticut or in the Southern Berkshires of Massachusetts, please call, fax, or send an e-mail to info@betsylittle.com.
Read about Betsy in the The Litchfield County Times, read about Norfolk in Connecticut Magazine, then click on Recent Sales.
Information contained herein is deemed reliable, but it is not so warranted nor is it otherwise guaranteed.
www.betsylittle.com   (186 words)

  
 Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar? : Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
End rant, I'm beat, skipping the cocktail party to catch some zzz, then on to have dinner with Halley at Dali's.
It was that people inside the NYT started using Romanesko's page as a bulletin board to post their frustrations.
Dave Weinberger, JOHO: Is it the opinion of the panel that weblogging is a life skill, and everyone should learn it?
betsydevine.weblogger.com /2003/10/04   (2493 words)

  
 Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar? : Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
In several cases, people lost title to new purchases when their garbage collectors or mailmen reported their houses standing empty for months at a time.
As we walked through the dark streets of Alpbach after the opera, people kept stopping Frank--"You are the oxygen atom!" Plus many enthusiastic remarks on his singing, which I'll refrain from repeating because I don't want his head to become too big!
Then go with Betsy to join the opera singers behind their screen (diagram zero), and get a laser pointer from her if you don't already have one.
betsydevine.weblogger.com   (1674 words)

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