
Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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But:-
1 - I am a US history freak
2 - It's cold on January 8th
( , Wed 4 Jul 2012, 19:13, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

LAND OF THE PILGRIMS PRIDE
FROM EVERY MOUNTAIN SIDE
LET FREEDOM RING
( , Wed 4 Jul 2012, 19:27, Reply)

I could get even more boring than usual right now.
Stop feeding me or I'll go into full blown dullard mode.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2012, 19:30, Reply)

Were written to fit the British national anthem, which - at the time - was a folk tune.
"Oh Say can you see etc.." was written during the seige of Baltimore, 1814.
The tune was written later.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2012, 19:42, Reply)
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