Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
𝄆 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!
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 ...
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 ...
National Bird Hispaniolan Trogan [1] [2] National Anthem La Dessalinienne [1] [2] National Mottos Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité", "L'union fait la force" [3] [2] National Floral Emblem Hibiscus [1] [4] National Tree Royal Palm [5] [6] [7] National Sport Soccer [2] National Dish Diri ak jon jon, griot National Beverage Rhum, Kleren Founding ...
Singer Loomis has issued an apology after her botched performance of the National Anthem during a live C-SPAN broadcast went viral.. On Wednesday, Loomis opened a debate held by the Free & Equal ...
A flag anthem is a patriotic song or ode dedicated to a flag, usually one of a country (in which case it is also known as a national flag anthem).It is often either sung or performed during or immediately before the raising or lowering of a flag during a ceremony.