![]() This hoax message has been doing the rounds on the internet since 2008. VERDICT The claim that UNESCO has declared Indian national anthem as the best in the world is false. "We are aware of several blogs in India reporting this story, but can assure you that Unesco has made no such announcement concerning the anthem of India or any country," the India Today report quoted Williams as saying. The report said that Sue Williams, Chief, Editorial, Press Relations and UNESCO Courier, Bureau of Public Information, UNESCO, in an email, told India Today that no such award was announced. The report refers to an India Today report published in 2008 titled, ''India anthem' email false: Unesco', which talks about a hoax message that was circulated heavily via email in 2008 with the same claim. Singing of the National Anthem should form part of the ceremony of raising and lowering of the flag at the beginning and end of term in schools and at. All persons should stand at attention, (i.e., heels together) at the playing of the National Anthem and men should remove their hats. ![]() ![]() VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY A simple search on Google with keywords 'Indian national anthem UNESCO' will lead you to a report published in 2016 on, an international fact-checking website, saying that UNESCO has not declared our national anthem best in the world. The Jamaican National Anthem is Jamaica, Land We Love. In fact, UNESCO has not declared national anthem of any country best in the world. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,Īnd this be our motto: "In God is our trust.TRUTH No, UNESCO has not declared our national anthem 'best in the world'. Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! O thus be it ever, when freemen shall standīetween their loved homes and the war's desolation.īlest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,Ī home and a country, should leave us no more? O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore 'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, ''Lord Bless Africa'') and the Afrikaans song 'Die Stem van Suid-Afrika' (English: 'The Voice of South Africa' ), which was used as the South. What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,Īs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? The National Anthem of South Africa was adopted in 1997 and is a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the 19th century hymn 'Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika' (English: 'God Bless Africa', lit. Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, The Washington Wizards are inviting all singers and musicians to come register for an opportunity to perform the National Anthem at regular season games. On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, Although the national anthem consists of four verses, on almost every occasion only the first verse is sung. As a song, renamed The Star-Spangled Banner, it became a well-known US patriotic song and was made the official US national anthem in 1931. The poem was later set to a popular British tune composed for a London gentlemen's club. Key was inspired by the huge "Star-Spangled Banner" flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 (1812-15) against the British. The lyrics or words of the US national anthem are from the poem Defence of Fort M'Henry, written by Francis Scott Key in 1814.
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