In his political testament, `` Advice To My Country '', penned just before his death, Madison expressed the wish `` that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

Also in 1994, Parton contributed the song " You Gotta Be My Baby " to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization.

* The Great Possum-Squashing and Beer Storm of 1962: Reflections on the Remains of My Country ( 2000 )

The album spawned three additional Top 10 Country hits, including two number-one hits between 1997 and 1998, " Two Pina Coladas " and " To Make You Feel My Love ", which also was a Top 10 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and was released on the soundtrack to the movie Hope Floats.

In the United States, the tune is used for the patriotic " My Country, ' Tis of Thee.

The Pakistani textbook " Primary Stage English " includes lessons such as " Pakistan My Country ", " Our Flag ", or " Our Great Leader " ( Malik 1993: 5, 6, 7 ) which might well sound jingoistic to Western ears.

* 1831 – Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, ' Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.

* In My Country ( 2004 ), very loosely based on Country of My Skull, an autobiographical text by Antjie Krog which dealt with her coverage of the hearings, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche

" My Country, ' Tis of Thee ", whose melody is identical to " God Save the Queen ", the British national anthem, also served as a de facto anthem.

He released critically acclaimed albums Lonesome, On ' ry and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes, followed by hit albums Dreaming My Dreams and Are You Ready for the Country.

* Congo, My Country ( 1962 ) London: Pall Mall Press.

* The rapper Nas dedicates his song My Country to Lumumba at the end of the song.

Holst himself adapted the theme from " Jupiter " as a hymn tune under the name of " Thaxted ", specifically for the words " I Vow to Thee My Country ".

" I Vow to Thee, My Country " was written between 1908 and 1918 by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and became known as a response to the human cost of World War I.

Denver's music appeared on a variety of charts, including country and western, the Billboard Hot 100, and adult contemporary, in all earning him 12 gold and 4 platinum albums with his signature songs " Take Me Home, Country Roads ", " Rocky Mountain High ", and " Sunshine on My Shoulders ".

Between 1974 and 1975, Denver experienced an impressive chart dominance, with a string of four No. 1 songs (" Sunshine on My Shoulders ", " Annie's Song ", " Thank God I'm a Country Boy ", and " I'm Sorry ") and three No. 1 albums ( John Denver's Greatest Hits, Back Home Again, and Windsong ).

The " Flowers of the Forest ", " O Valiant Hearts ", " I Vow to Thee, My Country " and " Jerusalem " are often played during the service.

*" I Vow to Thee, My Country "

*** My Country ' Tis of Thee-Gordon Hollingshead

Berton's television career included spots as host and writer on My Country, The Great Debate, Heritage Theatre, The Secret of My Success and The National Dream.

In Country of My Skull, Antjie Krog writes, " He was so much braver than the rest of us, he paid so much more, his life seems to have touched the lives of so many people – even after his death .”

She is best known for her book Country of My Skull, which chronicled the TRC.

* Country of my Skull ( 1998 )

Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog primarily about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ).

Country of My Skull is written as an amalgamation of journalism, prose, personal narrative, and poetry-all of which Krog has been celebrated for-with the goal of capturing the overwhelming moral, emotional, and historical complexity of the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa.

Sidney was featured in People magazine, Rolling Stone, Billboard and Music City News and appeared on numerous national TV shows, including Nashville Now, Church Street Station, Hee Haw, Austin City Limits, John Fogerty's Showtime Special, New Country and Charlie Daniels Jam.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Campbell performed regularly on New York City's burgeoning Country Music scene, at well-known venues such as Greenwich Village's legendary Lone Star Cafe, City Limits, The Rodeo Bar, and O ' Lunney's, near the United Nations.

So wrote a ten year old student in a letter to his parents from North Country School, Lake Placid, New York.

`` A Night in New Orleans '' is the gayety planned by members of the Thrift Shop Committee for May 6 at Philmont Country Club.

* Wednesday 12 June 2013, New South Wales / Queensland Country invitational team Ausgrid Stadium, Newcastle

" The Lavender Country and Folk Dancers organization now serves as an umbrella organization for dances in Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, and California.

The New Towns Act of 1946 set up development corporations to construct new towns, while the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 instructed county councils to prepare development plans and also provided compulsory purchase powers.

* Country Dance * New York runs English and contra dance events in New York City.

* City and Country School-A Progressive Children's School in Greenwich Village, New York, founded in 1914 by Caroline Pratt

* Warren Zimmermann, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power ( New York, 2002 )

* Official site of New Orleans Plantation Country tourism

* Country Profile from New Internationalist

The Country Party was formally founded in 1913 in Western Australia, and nationally in 1920 from a number of state-based parties such as the Victorian Farmers Union ( VFU ) and the Farmers and Settlers Party of New South Wales.

New Orleans producer-bandleader Dave Bartholomew first employed this figure ( as a saxophone-section riff ) on his own 1949 disc " Country Boy " and subsequently helped make it the most over-used rhythmic pattern in 1950 ’ s rock ‘ n ’ roll.

The Askin Government, the first Liberal / Country Cabinet in New South Wales history, was sworn in by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Eric Woodward, on 13 May at Government House.

* Eck, Diane ( 2001 ) A New Religious America: How a " Christian Country " Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation ( San Francisco: Harper ).

New York critics also discovered Peckinpah's unusual Western, with Newsweek naming Ride the High Country the best film of the year and Time placing it on its best-ten list.

The Woman in Me won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year ; the latter group also awarded Twain as Best New Female Vocalist.

* Country Profile from New Internationalist

The minority Country Party was largely Ulster-Scot, centered in New Castle County, and quickly advocated independence from the British.

For instance, in a column discussing Hurricane Katrina, he cited Wikipedia, quoted at length a discussion of Katrina's lessons on American inequality from the Native American publication Indian Country Today, and then included excerpts from a David Brooks column in the New York Times in a discussion of why the events of Katrina illustrated the necessity for global development and redistribution of wealth.

New Country Party leader Arthur Fadden became Treasurer and Menzies unhappily conceded to allow Earle Page back into his ministry.

Despite this, it failed to become a hit, although two of its songs, Country at War and New Life peaked at numbers 15 and 26 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts, respectively.