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"Nobody likes mosquito bites." Experts raise red flags over disease-carrying 'tiger mosquito' expected to spread across US ...
The protest began at the Gulfport Federal Courthouse lawn at 9 a.m.. Participants then marched to Jones Park, wrapped around ...
Officials in Mississippi have chosen a new design for the state's flag to replace the former motif ... submissions — including one with a giant mosquito — from the public.
The state flag that was retired in June after flying ... If the intent was to capture the essence of Mississippi, a mosquito makes about as much sense as a magnolia flower. But officials from ...
Mississippi voters will choose whether or not to embrace the new flag, which features a magnolia ... Kermit the Frog and most memorably a giant mosquito that briefly made it as a semifinalist ...
A Mississippi commission has picked a state ... including a flag that was centered around a gigantic mosquito. That flag survived the first round of state cuts from the submissions.
BE FORE IT WAS FOR MISSISSIPPI. INTERESTING. AND WHAT WOULD COMMENTS ON THE STATE FLAG BE WITHOUT A SHOUT OUT TO A CULT FAVORITE FLAG DESIGN? @ESQUIRING TWEETED OUT, IT'S NOT BAD, BUT IT'S NO MOSQUITO ...
The final designs were selected out of about 3,000 proposals submitted to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for consideration. Zapped! Agency swats down mosquito flag for ...
Thanks to a typo, a design featuring a giant mosquito was briefly in the running to become Mississippi's new state flag, the Clarion Ledger reports. The proposed design, which consists of a ...
File-This June 25, 2020, file photo shows a Mississippi state flag flying outside the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi will surrender the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag ...
A mosquito on a state flag? That's not gonna fly -- right? Because of a typo, residents of Mississippi nearly had a giant mosquito as a choice for the state’s new flag. Nearly 3,000 residents ...
Mississippi's state flag is getting a makeover. On Friday, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) announced nine designs that are in the running to become the next flag.