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Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
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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 ...
This song was not officially approved by the Qing government, but was recognized as the national song of China in other countries. The only known versions are from a version played by the Victor Military Band, translated as "The World's Delight," recorded in Camden, New Jersey on 18 September 1914.
In time (i.e. the performer should return to the stable tempo, such as after an accelerando or ritardando); also may be found in combination with other terms such as a tempo giusto (in strict time) or a tempo di menuetto (at the speed of a minuet) ab (Ger.) off, organ stops or mutes abafando (Port.) muffled, muted abandon or avec (Fr.)
The national motto "In God We Trust" dates back to the Civil War—although Congress didn't make it official until 1956. Each state's nickname, however, has its own unique origin story.
The lyrics include the phrase, "It's only half-past twelve but I don't care. It's five o'clock somewhere": even though it is not 5:00 in the narrator's time zone, it is in another part of the world. For example, a time of 12:30 in Newnan, Georgia, Jackson's hometown, translates to a time of 5:30 in London, England. Even though it would not ...
A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time. Time zone can also refer to: Time Zone (band), experimental hip-hop group headed by Afrika Bambaataa; Time Zones, a 1977 album by Richard Teitelbaum Anthony Braxton; Time Zone, historical video game; Timezone (video arcades), a chain of video arcade centers based in ...