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8 Unusual Instruments Playing the Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner, better-known to some as the national anthem of the U.S.A., was first sung exactly 195 years ago, we’re told. Though it was not approved as the official national anthem until 1931, the 1814 poem “Defence of Fort McHenry” by Francis Scott Key was immediately set to the popular British drinking song “The [...]
