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Tony Soprano received home delivery of the paper, and several episodes opened with him picking it up at the end of his driveway.


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.

AFN Berlin

Afterwards, seconds before 2pm, AFN Berlin ceased transmitting after playing the national anthem of the United States of America.

Alan Mcilwraith

In December 2007, the Sunday Mail reported that Mcilwraith had reinvented himself as a magician called Ledger, and claimed to be a drinking companion of Lance Burton.

Alan Sepinwall

He spent 14 years as a columnist with The Star-Ledger in Newark until leaving the newspaper in 2010 to work for the entertainment news website HitFix.

Alice Cary

Alice wrote for the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Putnam's Magazine, the New York Ledger, the Independent, and other literary periodicals.

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.

Ann Wilson

On November 22, 2012, Wilson sang an original arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner", accompanied by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, at the beginning of the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Bert Bandstra

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

Charles Ledger

Ledger did a great service to the world, as millions of cinchona trees grown in India and Java sprang originally from the seeds he collected.

Ledger, however, found a better variety for producing quinine, now known as Cinchona ledgeriana, and in 1865 under great difficulties collected several pounds of seed and sent them to his brother George Ledger in London.

Cockerham bribery case

That same month, investigators raided Cockerham's Fort Sam Houston home and discovered a ledger detailing $30 million in kickbacks that the officer expected to receive for steering contracts to certain companies.

Colm O'Donoghue

His most recent international big race victory was the inaugural running of the American St.Ledger at the Arlington Million meeting at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in August 2012.

Donna Sachet

On September 29, 2009, Sachet became the first drag performer to sing the United States National Anthem at the opening of a Major League Baseball game.

Doug Roby

The biggest controversy he faced came when African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black-gloved fists and bowed their heads while the "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played during a medal ceremony.

Edwin F. Russell

After graduating from Princeton University, he worked during the 1940s as the associate publisher of The (Newark, NJ) Star-Ledger.

Eggesford

Lady Mary Chichester married in 1655 as his first wife John St Ledger (d.1696) of Doneraile, County Cork, Ireland.

Elijah Kelley

On December 2, 2011, Kelley sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to the Pac-12 Conference Championship Game at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon.

Fannie Lou Hamer

:"All of this is on account we want to register sic, to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?"

Fish soup bee hoon

Grace Chen of The Star writes that fish soup bee hoon is "to Singaporeans what the char kway teow is to Penangites".

Iowa State University Cyclone Marching Band

"God Bless America" has been replaced with a fanfare leading directly into "The Star-Spangled Banner", along with a new star set.

Jasmine Villegas

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

Jay Soto

Also in 2004, Jay sang The Star-Spangled Banner for the United States President at the Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona.

Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós

Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing two "audience favorites," "Flugufrelsarinn" (by Sigur Rós) and "The Star-Spangled Banner" (trad., arr. S. Prutsman after Jimi Hendrix).

Ledger

According to Charles Wriothesley's Chronicle (1538), "The curates should provide a booke of the bible in Englishe, of the largest volume, to be a ledger in the same church for the parishioners to read on."

Ledger art

Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo/Winnebago) is a female ledger artist who uses bright colors and female figures frequently in her work.

Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play

Buck’s pop star wife Tabitha Vixx, sings the first few bars of the American national anthem at the game, then strips down to lingerie and launches into one of her own songs.

Matt Haimovitz

This was followed in 2003 by Haimovitz's Anthem tour, in which he brought a variety of American compositions to a similar variety of audiences, including his rendition of Jimi Hendrix's famous improvisational rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Medal of Honor Original Soundtrack Recording

# "The Star Spangled Banner" – 2:06

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Microsoft Forecaster: extracts real-time data from General Ledger to create and manage accurate budgets and plans which can be shared across the management team via a Web-based interface.

Mosaic Music Festival

Launched by the Esplanade in 2005, the festival has since garnered good reviews in regional newspapers such as Thailand's The Nation, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post and Malaysia's The Star.

National Museum of American History

Located in the center of the second floor is the original Star Spangled Banner Flag which inspired Francis Scott Key's poem.

O. D. Thompson

A week later Thompson's ledger shows that Allegheny paid Sport Donnelly $250 for playing against Washington & Jefferson.

Peter Spier

The Star-Spangled Banner (1973), an edition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key (1814) —"includes music, background history, and pictures of flags"

Proposition bet

:*Betting on specific aspects of the pageantry surrounding a sporting event, such as a) the duration of the word "brave" in the pregame performance of the U.S. national anthem or b) the color of the Gatorade or other sports drink dumped on the winning team's coach in the traditional practical joke and victory ritual known as Gatorade shower

Red Equinox

Ryan and the others are able to hold off the Russians long enough for the door to be repaired; before they leave Rick, wrapped in the rescued American flag, asks for one last favor: to hear the The Star-Spangled Banner before he dies.

Samuel Bagster the Elder

He died at his residence in Old Windsor on 28 March 1851, aged 78 and is commemorated with a large ledger slab memorial at Abney Park Cemetery.

Schoyen Collection

MS 4457 (1865-1879 AD), Cheyenne Chief Little Shield's Ledger Book recording the Indian War of the Platte River in 1865.

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.

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.

St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea

The rich internal fittings include a complete scheme of stained glass by Goodhart-Rendel's favoured designer Joseph Ledger and a 16th-century painting by Ortolano Ferrarese.

Sukrit Wisetkaew

During his college years, he decided to audition for the third season of The Star.

In early 2006, Bie auditioned for the third season of The Star.

The New Ledger

The New Ledger is an American web publication which pairs aggregated and ranked news stories with right of center opinion articles by free-market minded moderates, libertarians and conservatives.

The Public Ledger

Oliver Goldsmith was known to have written for The Public Ledger, including most famously the Chinese Letters where he poses as a traveller from China to comment on Western behaviour and values.

The Star-Crowned Kings

A considerable amount of technology has been lost, in many cases some worlds are reduced to mix of Steam and elementary electronics.

WRGV

For three years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the station played breaking news bulletins every hour on top of the hour (first provided by ABC News, then by Clear Channel Worldwide News), as well as "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the start and close of each workday.


see also

Greg Schiano

In December 2007, The Star-Ledger reported that Schiano spoke with University of Michigan Athletic Director Bill Martin "for quite a while" on December 5 about the head coaching vacancy at the school.

Justin Hopson

ABC News, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Star-Ledger, 20/20, and other media outlets have interviewed Justin Hopson about police corruption.