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Today in History / Today’s Earworm

In 1814, while held on a British ship during the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that eventually became our national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner.

 

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    Roy

     /  September 16, 2012

    I’ve always hated that rendition.

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