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The anthem was originally a poem written by Oswald Durand. [1] In 1893, a visiting German warship set course to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to stopover and by protocol that required that a national anthem be performed. At the time, Haiti did not have an anthem, so the composer Occide Jeanty offered to compose music to the patriotic ...
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, a competition was held for a national anthem in 1903.The poetic words of Justin Lhérisson and martial composition of Nicolas Geffrard won over the judges, [5] who preferred it to "L'Artibonitienne" by Capois diplomat Louis Edouard Pouget.
𝄆 God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong, That you may grow in power and worth, Thro'out the ages long. 𝄇 II Texas, O Texas! Your freeborn single star, Sends out its radiance to nations near and far. Emblem of freedom! It sets our hearts aglow, With thoughts of San Jacinto and glorious Alamo. Chorus III Texas, dear Texas!
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The claim: University of Texas pulled scholarships of students who knelt during national anthem. An Aug. 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows two separate images of female basketball ...
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
H.E.R. will be one of the performers closing out the Summer Olympic Games in Paris on Sunday, Aug. 11.. The 27-year-old Grammy winner will be singing the U.S. national anthem at Stade de France ...
Texas alumnus Scottie Scheffler proved why he's the world's best golfer at the 2024 Paris Olympics, collecting a gold medal on his very first try.. The former Longhorn is known to have a somewhat ...