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.

* God Save the Queen ( National anthem of the United Kingdom and New Zealand )

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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* 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 ".

It affirms that the Jews are indeed the chosen people of God and Yahweh is both their national god and the God of the universe ( 46: 9 ).

In chapter 2 these miseries are described in connection with national sins and acts of God.

Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh, the national God.

** A call to national repentance in the face of God ’ s judgment.

Judaism does not see human beings as inherently flawed or sinful and needful of being saved from it, but rather capable with a free will of being righteous, and unlike Christianity does not closely associate ideas of " salvation " with a New Covenant delivered by a Jewish messiah, although in Judaism Jewish people will have a renewed national commitment of observing God's commandments under the New Covenant, and the Jewish Messiah will also be ruling at a time of global peace and acceptance of God by all people.

* 1956 – A joint resolution of the U. S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God we trust as the U. S. national motto.

* the national motto, " In God we trust "

General Ma Bufang and other high ranking Muslim Generals attended the Kokonuur Lake Ceremony where the God of the Lake was worshipped, and during the ritual, the Chinese national anthem was sung, all participants bowed to a Portrait of Kuomintang party founder Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and the God of the Lake was also bowed to, and offerings were given to him by the participants, which included the Muslims.

Although practice varies between different national churches, most Methodist churches annually follow the call of John Wesley for a renewal of their covenant with God.

At the last night of The Proms, people of various nationalities with their national flags wave their national flags when singing along " God Save the Queen ".

Some elements of Sharia law were re-introduced, and the ritual phrase " Allahu Akbar " (" God is great "), in Saddam's handwriting, was added to the national flag.

Since 1997, the South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ) and the former anthem Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ( The Call of South Africa ).

Die Stem was the co-national anthem with God Save the King / Queen from 1936 to 1957, when it became the sole national anthem until 1995.

" 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.

* July 30 – A Joint Resolution of Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing " In God We Trust " as the U. S. national motto.

* February 16 – Thomas Bracken, author of the official national anthem of New Zealand ( God Defend New Zealand ) ( b. 1843 )