In order for the song to become the anthem, it had to face a vote between the Royal anthem God Save the Queen, the " unofficial anthem " Waltzing Matilda and Song of Australia.

During a session recorded by the BBC, the machine managed to work its way through " Baa Baa Black Sheep ", " God Save the King " and part of " In the Mood ".

* God Save the Teens: Local Kids Seek a New Kind of Church Through Hardcore and Hip-Hop by Lauren Sandler in the Village Voice 30 May-5 June 2001

To demonstrate his oscillator before the London Institute of Electrical Engineers, Duddell wired a series of tuned circuits to the arc and played a tune, " God Save The Queen ".

" God Save the Queen " ( alternatively " God Save the King ") is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown Dependencies.

God Save the Queen is the de facto British national anthem and has this role in some British territories.

In countries not previously part of the British Empire, the tune of " God Save the Queen " has provided the basis for various patriotic songs, though still generally connected with royal ceremony.

The first six bars also form all or part of the Vice Regal Salute in some Commonwealth realms outside the UK ( e. g., in Canada, governors general and lieutenant governors at official events are saluted with the first six bars of " God Save the Queen " followed by the first four and last four bars of " O Canada "), as well as the salute given to governors of British overseas territories.

In The Oxford Companion to Music, Percy Scholes devotes about four pages to this subject, pointing out the similarities to an early plainsong melody, although the rhythm is very distinctly that of a galliard, and he gives examples of several such dance tunes that bear a striking resemblance to " God Save the King / Queen ".

He also points to several pieces by Henry Purcell, one of which includes the opening notes of the modern tune, set to the words " God Save The King ".

The distinctive 6 beats to the phrase can still be heard today in songs such as " God Save the Queen ".

The Viceregal Salute — composed of the first and last four bars of the National Anthem (" Advance Australia Fair ")— is the salute used to greet the governor upon arrival at, and mark his or her departure from most official events, although " God Save The Queen ", as the Royal Anthem, is also used.

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God Save the Queen, the national anthem of the United Kingdom, is sometimes played alongside Hen Wlad fy Nhadau during official events with a royal connection.

* 1977 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that ' the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem " God Save the Queen " and the poem " God Defend New Zealand ", written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.

" The Sex Pistols ' God Save The Queen, with its chant-like refrain of " no future ", became a slogan for unemployed and disaffected youth during the late 1970s.

The Sex Pistols classics " Anarchy in the U. K ." and " God Save the Queen " openly disparage the British political system and social mores.

In May, the Sex Pistols achieved new heights of controversy ( and number two on the singles chart ) with " God Save the Queen ".

An 18th-century example of topical song intended as a feminist protest song is " Rights of Woman " ( 1795 ), sung to the tune of " God Save the King ", written anonymously by " A Lady ", and published in the Philadelphia Minerva, October 17, 1795.

Early British punks expressed nihilistic views with the slogan No Future, which came from the Sex Pistols song " God Save the Queen ".

He called her `` the Mare '' much as Mrs. Whipsnade spoke of `` the Queen, God bless her ''.

For Queen Anne also, the Ramillies campaign had one overriding significance – " Now we have God be thanked so hopeful a prospect of peace.

She is identified as Eleanor, by the Grace of God, Queen of the English, Duchess of the Normans.

She ruled England in Richard's name, signing herself as ' Eleanor, by the grace of God, Queen of England '.

Mary is venerated as the Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Church, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, and other lofty titles.

Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings ( such as a God, angels, the jinn, and sky deities like King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors ) originate, are enthroned or inhabit.

( 1991 ) " Isabelle d ' Angoulême, by the Grace of God, Queen ," in Revue belge de philologie et histoire, 69, 821 – 852.

When Mary ascended the throne, she was proclaimed under the same official style as Henry VIII and Edward VI: " Mary, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and of Ireland on Earth Supreme Head ".

Under Mary's marriage treaty with Philip, the official joint style reflected not only Mary's but also Philip's dominions and claims: " Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

This style, which had been in use since 1554, was replaced when Philip inherited the Spanish Crown in 1556 with " Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, Spain, France, both the Sicilies, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy, Milan and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

in its entirety at The National Theatre in London was met with surprisingly open arms, particularly given its inordinate length: a cycle of five plays — The Eye of the Pyramid, Swift Kick Inc., The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock and Leviathan — each consisting of five 23-minute-long acts.

" The National Survey of Youth and Religion in 2002-2003 and 2007-2008 indicates that about one-third of young American Jews believe " not in a personal God, but in an impersonal, cosmic life force.

* Wiener won the 1965 U. S. National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion for God & Golem, Inc .: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion.

The sign has been in news and print in many magazines, including on the cover of National Geographic, and in the music video of Little Texas ' song " God Blessed Texas.

Snake handling at the Pentecostal Church of God, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky September 15, 1946 ( National Archives and Records Administration ).

The website of " The National Shrine of Saint Philomena, Miami, Florida " sees " the action taken in 1960 as the work of the devil in order to deprive the people of God of a most powerful Intercessor, particularly in the areas of purity and faith at a time when these virtues were so much being challenged as they continue to be up until now!

The summit was donated to the National Trust in 1919 by Lord Leconfield in memory of the men of the Lake District " who fell for God and King, for freedom, peace and right in the Great War ".

He also instituted the Annual Prayer Breakfast, conducted Evangelistic Crusades across the country and developed the Church of God in Christ National Evangelist Registry.

While still a teenager, he spoke at the National Holy Convocation of the Church of God in Christ and the International Youth Congress.

* Steve Lowery – Pastor of National Church of God

Lowery – Former Pastor of National Church of God

In 1980, the promise was changed from ' To do my duty to God ' to ' To love my God ', in order to accommodate different faiths, most groups allow changes to the promise, though some groups do not allow atheists and this has attracted criticism from the National Secular Society.

On February 6, 2003 Weaver attended the National Prayer Breakfast meeting and was able to hand Bush an eight page typed letter about Iraq " from God ".

However, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote: “ The most distracting nonsense is the pop-up of familiar faces in so-called cameo roles, jarring the illusion .” Shana Alexander in Life Magazine stated: “ The pace was so stupefying that I felt not uplifted – but sandbagged !” And John Simon – later notorious as the frequently scathing theater and film critic of New York Magazine – wrote in the National Review: " God is unlucky in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

The term was used by National Center for Science Education executive director Eugenie Scott to refer to the part of the overall spectrum of beliefs about creation and evolution holding the theological view that God creates through evolution.

* National Song of Anguilla: " God Bless Anguilla "

On May 30, 2011, the WBC was present at Arlington National Cemetery's Memorial Day services as part of their " Thank God for Dead Soldiers " campaign.

Her performance included leading the National Anthem, God Save the Queen

Article 20 states that the Afghan National Anthem ( Wolesi Tarana ) " shall be in Pashto with the mention of " God is Great " as well as the names of the tribes of Afghanistan.

On October 14, 2006, Tyler sang " God Bless America " during the seventh inning stretch at Game No. 3 of the National League Championship Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.