Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Abraham Lincoln took the band with him to Gettysburg on a special train and at one point escaped to a seat up front with his beloved musicians. The band played a Lincoln favorite, the hymn Old Hundredth, right after the prayer that opened the cemetery dedication in which Lincoln gave the world a text of American meaning...
Winston Churchill was so taken with the band in wartime that he sat in the rain with his White House host, Franklin Roosevelt, and sang the verses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...house was a meeting place for writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, class of 1821, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Its archives hold numerous letters, including those written by Emerson and Julia Ward Howe, writer of "Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Students read from the holy books of several religious traditions, chanting in foreign languages for three of them. Gomes and the two presidents led the congregation in the singing of hymns, with Rudenstine singing the final hymn without a lyrics sheet...
...Jungle" in then-Zaire is punctuated with the near-lyrical musings of George Plimpton and Norman Mailer (who covered the fight as sportswriters) and fleshed out with the black faces of a nation brought to life by the event and by Ali himself. It's a battle hymn and a history lesson...