Once a month, Life & Arts taps into the many questions received and answered by the staff of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. A sampling: A: The Bellamy salute was once a constant in American ...

The Bellamy Salute consisted of each person – man, woman or child – extending his or her right arm straight forward, angling slightly upward, fingers pointing directly ahead.

The lesson involved the teacher explaining to 11th grade history students that the "Bellamy salute" used to be performed when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, but was abandoned after a similar ...

A Jewish student was reprimanded by officials at his Alabama high school after he shared on social media a video of his teacher and classmates doing a Nazi salute.Mountain Brook high school student… ...

The Bellamy Salute was first demonstrated on Oct . 21, 1892 according to Bellamy’s published instructions for the “National School Celebration of Columbus Day” as the “400th Anniversary of ...

The Bellamy salute was scrapped by the US Congress in 1942 and replaced with the hand-over-heart gesture amid fears it could be mistaken for the fascist salute.

This was called the “Bellamy Salute.” Later, Americans argued that this looked too similar to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi salute.

A photo from the 1942 Lolomi, the yearbook of what is today A.C. Davis High School in Yakima, shows students in the auditorium saluting the American flag with what was known as the "Bellamy Salute ...

Focused on those details, Bellamy paid little attention to the comparatively minor details of the flag salute. A colleague who was supposed to handle it was unable to come up with anything ...

The Bellamy Salute consisted of each person – man, woman or child – extending his or her right arm straight forward, angling slightly upward, fingers pointing directly ahead.