His third and fourth verses weren’t any more appropriate. So, before Advance Australia Fair became our anthem in 1984, the National Australia Day Council made shrewd edits. Instead of using ...
By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem ... Exhibit A in critics’ account is the anthem’s seldom-sung third verse, which gloats at the defeat of the ...
Long beloved by Americans, "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became our National Anthem on March 3, 1931 when President Herbert Hoover signed a Congressional bill that codified what had ...