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This Independence Day, read the unexpected history of the songs that have led our nation's soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen into battle. Armies have used music to rally troops in battle since biblical days. During the American War for Independence, boys too young and men too old to fight often played the fife and drum for the Continental Army, using music to signal commands as well as to boost soldiers’ morale.A particular tune might direct troops to cease fire, or to reload their rifles. While music rarely has such a practical use on the battlefield today, each branch of the...

It is 8pm on a Tuesday evening, and I am busy annoying the Olympic associations of various Caribbean countries by asking them which national anthem will play if one of their athletes wins gold in Beijing. "You want to know what?" asks the receptionist at the Meat Market - a butcher that happens to share the same phone line as the Virgin Islands Olympic Committee. "I just want to know if your athletes would listen to the US's anthem or that of the Virgin Islands." "I don't know, son," she says. "All I know is we ain't gonna win no...

Just happened a few hours ago in brutal communist North Korea's capital, Pyongyang.The New York Philharmonic. CLICK HERE, THEN UNDER THE SINGER'S PHOTO, HIT PLAYBe patient as it loads. May not be viewable on all PCs.

HANOI, Vietnam -- Former British rocker Gary Glitter was formally charged Friday with committing obscene acts with two girls ages 10 and 11 at a Vietnamese resort town, prosecutors said. Glitter, 61, who won fame as a flamboyant glam rocker in the 1970s, is accused of kissing and engaging in other physical acts with the girls at his rental home in the southern coastal town of Vung Tau, prosecutor Nguyen Van Xung said. The charges carry prison terms of three to seven years, said Xung, deputy chief prosecutor in southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province. Glitter, whose real name is...

I just saw a video clip on Fox News of the French welcoming Russian President Putin. I was flabergasted to hear the band play the old Soviet Anthem.Putin hung his head in amazement. Tell me that the French are not a decade behind history!

Ripped from the bowels of corporate America...some of the worst motivational jingles ever written. These are songs produced by companies for their own employees. They must really hate them!