You might be surprised by when the bald eagle became our national bird
“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National ...
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Finally, the bald eagle is our national bird. Here is the history of the symbol
In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the Great Seal of the United States and Americans just assumed it was our national bird − wrongly it turned out. While the U.S. had a national mammal (bison) and ...
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This is what the pyramid and the eye on the one-dollar bill mean: Symbolism explained
The origin of the design comes from 1782, when the Continental Congress unveiled the design of the Great Seal of the United States of America. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams ...