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It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?
“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor ... Still, I suspect a vestige of doubt in his heart as he looked o’er the ramparts for his flag on that fateful September evening.
The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle ... bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to those ...
Terry Winter's notebook-collage is based on a 1914 photograph of two women at the Smithsonian working to restore the Star-Spangled Banner in a room with a model of a giant squid. Terry Winters ...
“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as ... at – this flag had 15 stripes and 15 stars. O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s ...