I rate Brazil near the top! Sweden’s does nothing for me!
Let's agree to disagree! ;)
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I rate Brazil near the top! Sweden’s does nothing for me!
Let's agree to disagree! ;)
Well, since I said there were two, and that they were "on the South American continent (excl. Panama)", there's no need to look for a third, especially in Central America or the islands. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
Chile and Ecuador is right! :up:
Certainly! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
I think the Chilean one reminds of Italy's Anthem, very perky and quick. Sweden's reminds a bit more of my own...
Not sure if I have a favourite anthem outside of my own or not. If pushed, I would have to say I love the French one and if the Star Spangled Banner is done right (which seems to be rarely done) in the right atmosphere, it can be electrfying. Wayne Messmer was an opera singer who used to do the anthems for the Black Hawks when they played at the old Chicago Stadium. Hearing his version of O Canada followed by the roar of the madness that went with his anthem and that giant pipe organ was just electrfying. You didn't have to be an American to appreciate it that is for sure.
Sadly, Messmer doesn't do the Hawks anthems no more, and the Chicago Stadium with its world's largest pipe organ are long gone....
Never mind the jingoism, just the sheer volume of emotion and enthusiam can be heard on the video on You Tube of the anthem at the NHL All Star game during the first Gulf War.....
One of them should be Chile.
The other I guess to be Ecuador.
As an American I respect and honor my National Anthem! Musically I find it rather awkward,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
and have an issue with the melody coming from an old British Drinking/Pub Song! :mark:
Francis Scott Key Got the lyrics right! But in light of the current state of affairs,
and in the interest of honest disclosure, I think the last two lines need to be changed to:
“Oh say does that Star - Spangled Banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the gullible and the home of the greedy?
Doesn't rhyme! :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
The vast majority of Canadians do not sing the correct version of our anthem.
The English or French version? :D
They have changed the English lyrics so often most people have lost track!
Anyway my question.
North America was 'discovered' by Europeans long before Columbus.
Settlements were basically on the East Coast of Newfoundland and Labrador with some further South.
However there was at least one settlement hundreds of miles inland.
Name the known settlement (current town) and general location as well as the European people that settled there.
Any one with decent knowledge of North American history should get this one.
vikings
there was news article about this recently the claim that it was close to keninston Minn. but others calim it was fake evidence, so I do not know, there are "rumors" of welsh and irish showing up before Columbus as well...nothing absolutely verified