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1812 and All That
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[New Yorker (blog)] - In a Talk story, Ebba Jonsson (The New Yorker's first librarian) gave a history of the composition of the national anthem. The famously hard-to-sing tune was composed in England in the seventeen-sixties by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic
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