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3 unusual facts about National anthem


Balilla

His memory is also reported on the present (but composed in 1848) Italian National anthem, "Il Canto degli Italiani", popularly known as "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy): "I bimbi d'Italia / si chiaman Balilla / il suon d'ogni squilla / i vespri sonò".

Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots

On 15 August each year, the anniversary of the date on which Emperor Hirohito announced the Japanese surrender, right-wing groups drive through Chiran in trucks blaring nationalist messages and songs.

Marina Karaseva

Diplomacy with the language of music: National anthem as a genre of multicultural communication. Professionals for Cooperation, Issue 5.


101st Grey Cup

The opening ceremonies of the game were marked by a performance by the Saskatoon-based group The Sheepdogs, who played two songs, while the national anthem was performed by Ontarian singer Serena Ryder.

2006 Checker Auto Parts 500

One of country music's top ten recording artists of 2006, Taylor Swift, sang the national anthem prior to the racing event.

2010 AAA Texas 500

Next, Kelly Hansen of Foreigner performed the national anthem, and Lee Ann Womack gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2010 AMP Energy Juice 500

Next, Josh Gracin performed the national anthem, and the AMP Energy grand marshall winners gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2010 Ford 400

Next, Bret Michaels performed the national anthem, and gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2010 Pepsi Max 400

Next, Kenny Loggins performed the national anthem, and Meg Whitman, Republican candidate for Governor of California, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2010 Sylvania 300

Anthony Gargiula performed the national anthem, and Mark Corcoran, VP of Industrial and Commercial Sales for Sylvania, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350

Next, news anchor Robin Meade performed the national anthem, and former NFL running back Roger Craig and Northern California Toyota Dealer Association's Henry Hansel gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2011 Auto Club 400

Next, Richard Marx performed the national anthem, and Christian Slater gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2011 Daytona 500

Next, Martina McBride performed the national anthem, and Josh Duhamel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and movie director Michael Bay of the upcoming movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2011 Quaker State 400

Next, Nick Lachey performed the national anthem, and Steve Beshear, Kentucky's Governor, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2011 Subway Fresh Fit 500

Next, Emmy Rossum performed the national anthem, and Olympian Apolo Anton Ohno gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

As-Salam al-Bey

as-Salam al-Bey, also called the Beylical Hymn (سلام الباي), was the national anthem of Tunisia between 1846 and 1957 during the Beylik of Tunis and the Kingdom of Tunisia.

Bert Bandstra

In 1965 Bandstra proposed a resolution to alter the National anthem.

Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov

It was rejected however, but the 1943 composition (with different lyrics) became the national anthem of Transnistria in the 1990s.

Coat of arms of Singapore

The committee that created it, headed by then Deputy Prime Minister Toh Chin Chye, was also responsible for the national flag and the national anthem of Singapore.

Danube Legion

However during treaty negotiations between the French and the Austrians, the French were finding the Polish issue to be a problem; the Poles wanted the French to continue fighting against the partitioners of Poland; the future Polish national anthem, Mazurek Dąbrowskiego, created by Józef Wybicki, promised 'the return of the Polish army from Italy to Poland'.

Erika Jo

She also holds the distinction of being the youngest person ever to perform the National Anthem at University of Kentucky's famed Rupp Arena.

Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands

The kingdom's national anthem is "I Am What I Am" by Gloria Gaynor.

Great Seal of the Realm

As centuries have gone by, most nations, whether a kingdom, empire, sultanate, emirate, republic, Islamic republic, state, commonwealth, confederation, federation, union, or whatever form of government usually has some form of National emblem, to go along with its other symbols of sovereignty, independence and nationality, such as its flag, national anthem or even a variety of official symbols such as a designated colors, bird, flower, stone, etc.

Helan Går

When Sweden's ice hockey team won the 1957 World Ice Hockey Championships in Moscow, not all of the Swedish players knew the lyrics to Du gamla, du fria, the de facto Swedish national anthem, so the players sang Helan Går instead.

Jasmine Villegas

Her first professional singing gig was at age 11, when she performed the national anthem for the Los Angeles Clippers.

Johann Strauss I

Strauss also adapted various popular melodies of his day into his works so as to ensure a wider audience, as evidenced in the incorporation of the Oberon overture into his early waltz, "Wiener Carneval", Op. 3, and also the French national anthem "La Marseillaise" into his "Paris-Walzer", Op. 101.

La Zaïroise

La Zaïroise by Joseph Lutumba (lyrics) and Simon-Pierre Boka Di Mpasi Londi (music) was the national anthem of Zaïre from 1971 to 1997.

MediaCorp Vasantham

Vasantham starts up at 3:00 pm on weekdays, 1:00pm on weekends, between 6:00am and 10:00am on public holidays and resign-on when 24 hours during Deepavali and the night before the Indian holidays with national anthem being played, main theme and station ident.

Padú del Caribe

He wrote "Aruba Dushi Tera", a waltz that is now the national anthem for Aruba and was long a rallying cry for separation from the Netherlands Antilles, which was achieved in 1986.

Philip Phile

It is best known under this title and was once a strong candidate for U.S. national anthem, though today it has, unlike other candidates, such as "America the Beautiful", been largely forgotten, although it continues to appear in films set in the United States during the nineteenth century.

Ram Singh Thakur

Singh and members of his orchestra band were invited to play the National Anthem on the occasion of the Prime Minister's inaugural address to the nation at the Red Fort.

Santiago Masarnau Fernández

In both Paris and London he was close to the Spanish composer José Melchor Gomis (1791–1836), himself a Spanish rebel living in exile, who composed the Himno de Riego, since used as the national anthem by the various republican governments of Spain.

School of the Arts, Singapore

The school's address is 1 Zubir Said Drive, named after the composer of the national anthem, Zubir Said.

Scouting in Maryland

This was done in anticipation of the bicentennial commemoration at Fort McHenry in 2014 of the battle which inspired Francis Scott Key to write his inspirational poem which later became our national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.

Second inauguration of Bill Clinton

The National Anthem was sung and then Arkansas poet Miller Williams read “Of History and Hope,” a poem he wrote for the occasion.

Secretary of State for Wales

John Redwood in particular caused embarrassment to the government when he publicly demonstrated an inability to sing (or even successfully mime) "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau", the Welsh national anthem.

Shoulder-fired missile

Rocket-based weapons have a long history, from the black powder fire arrows used by the ancient Chinese to the Congreve rocket referenced in "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States.

Sign singing

The National Anthem was sung and signed in British Sign Language at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics

Telescreen

Telescreens, in addition to being surveillance devices, are also the equivalent of televisions (hence the name), broadcasting propaganda about Oceania's military victories, economic production figures, spirited renditions of the national anthem to heighten patriotism, and Two Minutes Hate, which is a two-minute film of Emmanuel Goldstein's wishes for freedom of speech and press, which the citizens have been trained to disagree with through doublethink.


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2001 MBNA Cal Ripken, Jr. 400

The race was the first Cup race run following the September 11 attacks, and to commemorate the occasion, fans were given American flags, and Lee Greenwood sang "God Bless the USA", while Tanya Tucker sang "God Bless America", and a quartet of singers from Delaware State University performed the national anthem.

2006–07 Calgary Flames season

On February 3, 2007, the Flames made history by having young Cree singer Akina Shirt perform "O Canada" in Woodlands Cree, the first time the national anthem had ever been performed in an Aboriginal language at a major league sporting event.

2009 Coke Zero 400

The invocation and the national anthem were preempted in favor of the trailer for the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, causing an outrage among NASCAR fans.

2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Besides the Italian National Anthem two choirs of Italian Opera singers sung Va, pensiero from Verdi during the flag hoisting procedure.

Abbas Suan

During international football matches, Suan is one of two Arab players who refuse to sing during the playing of Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, because it mentions only Jews.

Ailamari Vehviläinen

Ailamari returned to the Tangomarkkinat in 2006, not to compete, but to take part in the show Valkokengas tanssi ja soi (The silver screen dances and plays) along with Mira Kunnasluoto, Erkki Räsänen, and Rami Rafael; and in a church concert, where she sang Jerusalem (not the unofficial English national anthem by William Blake).

Ala Khallidi

Humat al-Hima was temporarily used as a national anthem between the end of the monarchy on 25 July 1957 and the adoption of Ala Khallidi as the official national anthem.

Alexander Perls

As a consequence of YouTube introducing a system called Audioswap (which replaces the audio of copyrighted soundtracks with something else), a number of songs from 009 Sound System, particularly "Dreamscape" and "Trinity", became widely prominent on many YouTube videos; some YouTubers have declared one or the other song as the unofficial "national anthem" for YouTube.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

The Hunt for Red October (1990), in which Alexandrov's national anthem is sung by Sean Connery's submarine crew, led by Danish actor Sven-Ole Thorsen.

Allan Jackson

Jackson was handed a slip of paper reading "JFK DEAD" and immediately went on air with the announcement, reporting Kennedy's death as a fact (which had not yet been confirmed, although it was true that Kennedy was already dead), and playing the U.S. national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.

Antonio Neumane

Neumane is known today as the composer of the Ecuadorian National Anthem, which was performed for the first time on August 10, 1870 in the Independence Square of Quito, with Neumane as the orchestra director.

Association of Political Organisations of the Indonesian People

While PPPKI failed to achieve most of its intended goals, PPPKI was instrumental in the proclamation of the Sumpah Pemuda (Youth Oath) of 1928, in which nationalist symbols of Indonesia were adopted, namely, Bahasa Indonesia - a variant of Bahasa Melayu, was named the lingua franca; the presentation of "Indonesia Raya", the national anthem, and the red-white national flag, or Sang Saka Merah Putih, symbolising the Indonesian independence movement.

Brabançonne

In 1860, Belgium formally adopted the song and music as its national anthem, although the then prime minister, Charles Rogier edited out lyrics attacking the Dutch Prince of Orange.

Bunny Sigler

On October 18, 2008, Sigler sang the United States National Anthem before the Kelly Pavlik vs. Bernard Hopkins boxing match.

Chevy, el Ponzoñú

Cedeño defended his representation as Chevy in Las Vegas and his performance by saying, on Vea Magazine and other publications, that he sang from his heart, and he even suggested that Chávez's guest, Vicente Fernandez, could not memorize the Mexican national anthem and had to read it from a small piece of paper.

Dale Ford

He was well known for being behind the plate for Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, known for Bill Buckner's error; for tossing Baltimore Orioles Manager Earl Weaver out of a game during the National Anthem; and for ejecting Reggie Jackson from a game only to have Jackson begin throwing all the contents of the dugout onto the playing field.

Estates Theatre

The first Czech modern opera, František Škroup’s The Tinker, was staged here in 1826 and in 1834 the premiere of the song “Where is my Home?” (Kde domov můj) was performed by bass Karel Strakatý (words by Tyl, music by Škroup), which would later become the Czech national anthem.

Francisco Casanovas

He also collaborated in India with the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Rabindranath Tagore; thus, while the Indian national anthem's lyrics are Tagore's, the harmonisation is by Casanovas.

Gary Hoey

As writer, producer, and guitar player, Hoey's clients have included Disney, ESPN, and No Fear, and he has performed the National Anthem for the New England Patriots, San Diego Padres, and the Boston Red Sox.

God Bless Fiji

It suggested that the national anthem should be in the country's three main languages: Fijian, Hindi and English.

Gwen Sebastian

Gwen Sebastian sang the National Anthem for the New York Yankees' Spring Training game against the Detroit Tigers in Tampa, Florida on March 28, 2010, and received a congratulatory hug from actor Richard Gere who was in attendance.

Haiphong

Văn Cao (1923–95) musician, poet, painter and composer of the national anthem of Vietnam Tiến Quân Ca

Himno de Riego

At the Davis Cup tennis finals held in Australia in 2003, James Morrison played this anthem, El Himno de Riego instead of Spain's current national anthem, the Marcha Real ("Royal March").

Jammu–Sialkot Line

The writer of Pakistan's first national anthem, Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu, was forced to leave Lahore due to the escalating violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Joan Gamper

On 24 June 1925, FC Barcelona fans jeered the Spanish national anthem and then applauded God Save the Queen performed by a visiting British Royal Marine band.

Kmetijske in rokodelske novice

Matija Majar's manifesto on United Slovenia was first published in the newspaper, as was France Prešeren's poem Zdravljica, the 7th stanza of which would later become the Slovenian national anthem.

Kremlin Clock

Initially, the national anthem "God Save The Tsar!" was proposed, but Tsar Nicholas I forbade it, stating that "the chimes can play any song except for the anthem".

Kristy Cates

She appeared at the Taste of Chicago and sang the National Anthem on Veterans Weekend at a Chicago Bears football game.

L'Abidjanaise

Adopted in 1960 at the country's independence, the song of Abidjan remains the national anthem of Côte d'Ivoire, even though the capital city is now Yamoussoukro.

Lindsay Ridgeway

She also is a semi-regular singer of the National Anthem at Staples Center in Los Angeles for the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team, and performs in cabaret shows periodically throughout Los Angeles.

Lorenz Leopold Haschka

He returned to Catholicism after the death of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, and was selected to compose a national anthem, which was first sung on 12 February 1797, at the celebration of Francis II's birthday.

Marangal na Dalit ng Katagalugan

The Marangál na Dalit ng̃ Katagalugan (English title: Noble Hymn of the Tagalogs) was the historic national anthem of the Tagalog Republic and is considered the first national anthem of the Philippines.

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

Among the more famous performers who were accompanied by the Camp Pendleton color guard have been Frankie Laine, Herb Alpert, Wilson Phillips, Jewel, Trisha Yearwood and the Dixie Chicks, all of whom had performed the National Anthem at either a World Series game, Super Bowl, or, in Wilson Phillips' case, a Major League Baseball All-Star Game that was played at what is now Qualcomm Stadium.

Martin Berberyan

Because Berberyan became a European Champion at the competition, the Armenian national anthem, Mer Hayrenik, was played in the Turkish capital on that day.

Mazurek

"Dąbrowski's Mazurka" (Mazurek Dąbrowskiego), the Polish national anthem, written by Józef Wybicki in 1797

My Kazakhstan

O Kazakhstan, satirical parody rewrite of the Kazakhstan national anthem featured in the film Borat

Nasi Lemak 2.0

an article by Fauziah Arof dated 21 September 2011 condemned Namewee for insulting the national anthem Negaraku, Islam and Malay race as a whole.

National Anthem of Chile

Joe Walsh, famed musician who was part of the United States rock band the Eagles, sang the National Anthem of Chile at a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game in 2003.

Padania

As national anthem, Lega Nord chose the Va, pensiero chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco, in which the exiled Hebrew slaves lament for their lost homeland.

Sarah Darling

To promote the single, Black River Music Group arranged for Darling to sing the national anthem for a Buffalo Sabres game in place of usual singer Doug Allen; the Sabres and Black River are both owned by Terrence Pegula.

Savannah Sand Gnats

The team was featured in the first season of Da Ali G Show, when the character Borat sang his national anthem, and then ventured into the locker room.

Tibetan National Anthem

Tibet's first national anthem was, according to Tashi Tsering, written by a famous Tibetan scholar, during the epoch of the seventh Dalai Lama and under the reign of the Pholanas in between 1745-1746.

Vårt Land

The Swedish title of Maamme, the national anthem of Finland, originally a poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg.

War Memorial Plaza

It is said that the first public singing of the future National Anthem occurred on the stage here in late September 1814, when the poem of "The Defence of Fort McHenry" written by Francis Scott Key aboard a truce ship downriver from the British fleet as it bombarded Fort McHenry during September 12–14, 1814 several weeks earlier and set to music with the tune "To An Anacreon in Heaven", a so-called English drinking song.

Win Stracke

Drawing from these areas and along with fellow musician Lawrence Lane (A classicly trained singer who later sang the National Anthem before Chicago Blackhawks games) the group formed "I Come for to Sing," a touring folk review.

Yuki Koyanagi

Yuki had the opportunity to sing the American National Anthem during the 2006 World Baseball Classic in Tokyo.