Mary Pickersgill: The Woman Who Sewed the Star-Spangled Banner.Megan SmithJenny WeiSocial studies and the young learner
According to theSmithsonian, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was written in 1814 by a poet named Francis Scott Key. After seeing the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the morning after an attack from the British, he penned one verse. Later, Key wrote three more verses, which were printed i...
According to theSmithsonian, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was written in 1814 by a poet named Francis Scott Key. After seeing the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the morning after an attack from the British, he penned one verse. Later, Key wrote three more verses, which were printed i...
Thank God, we were rescued at 4 in the morning.” Before the family left Cuba, Martínez was studying violin at the Alejandro García Caturla conservatory in Havana. She learned how to play The Star-Spangled Banner, thinking it was a religious hymn, until her uncle, who is Major League ...
On today's date in 1814, a 35-year-old American lawyer wrote the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner." In recent years, three African-American performers . . .
fashion sense, and gender fluidity—even before it was mainstream—appealed to fans everywhere. "Bowie was so defiantly, gloriously oddball, so utterly unafraid of what society might think of him... that he made it OK for other people to be different as well,"Kaite Welsh wrote for The Tele...
If you haven’t already heard it, you will – over and over again.It’s what Ken Jennings wrote below his Final Jeopardy! wager knowing full well he and his other humanoid competitor were going to lose to a computer. For all you “Singulartarians” out there – IBM’s super computer ...
[ editor’s note: foxy brown’s camp refutes teddy riley’s statement that jay z ghostwrote for her. ] havoc (from mobb deep) :“foxy was always passionate for what she did. she wanted to spit a hot rhyme. she wouldn’t just say anything; the bars had to be real hot. she was...
‘spat' of lead against flesh," he wrote. "A dozen of my brave fellows tumbled over like ten-pins. Some struggled to their feet, only to go down again, and yet again." Only 2 days at Shiloh, had made a major impact on Bierce, where years later he would write "The Coup de ...
What has Andress said about the performance? Andress admitted that she “was drunk” and would be checking into rehab. “That was not me last night,” she wrote on social media. “I apologize to MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition. I’ll let y’...