* List of national anthems

It is one of two national anthems for New Zealand ( since 1977 ) and for several of Britain's territories that have their own additional local anthem.

It has been established by tradition over a hundred years ; and although in common with other British anthems, it has not been established as such by law, it has been used in the context of a national anthem at official governmental ceremonies including the opening of the Welsh Assembly and at receptions of the British monarchy.

* 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.

National flags, national anthems, and other symbols of national identity are commonly considered highly important symbols of the national community.

Civilians in some other countries, like Italy and Nigeria, also render the hand-on-heart ( heart-touching ) salute when hearing their respective national anthems.

# beliefs or customs instituted and maintained by societies and governments, such as national anthems and national holidays, such as Federal holidays in the United States.

Common examples include public holidays ( particularly those unique to a particular nation ), the singing of national anthems, and traditional national cuisine ( see national dish ).

The South African government adopted both songs as national anthems from 1994, when they were performed at Nelson Mandela's inauguration.

A military band played the French and Palestinian national anthems, and a Chopin funeral march.

Jones, a boxing fan, has performed national anthems before a number of boxing matches.

During 2006, the group released the album Volk ( German for People ), featuring cover versions of national anthems, including the NSK state anthem " Das Lied der Deutschen ", originally written in 1979 and used during the Weimar Republic.

This song, and other based on national anthems are released on Volk album, which is a collection of Laibach's versions of national anthems of countries such as the United States and Russia.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

The Australian National Football Council's primary role was to govern the game at national level to facilitate interstate representative and club competition.

In the 1860s, aided by the War, " New York " style baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players was formed.

Sandberg then shocked the national audience by hitting a second home run, even farther into the left field bleachers, to tie the game again.

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The fall gained " national attention ", because Yamaoka continued to perform from a stretcher as she was moved away from the game.

The ceremonial playing of the Russian national anthem before the game is an important tradition.

The national team has often been criticized for playing an old fashioned long ball style game and having poor technical skills which has prevented them achieving success.

After it was used against a major school on a national stage in this game, the forward pass rapidly gained popularity.

The best governments in the world cannot succeed in pulling a country out of the quagmire, out of apathy, if they do not express themselves as national energies ... Strong governments cannot result either from conspiracies or from military coups, just as they cannot come out of the machinations of parties or the Machiavellian game of political lobbying.

Hagi made his debut for the Romania national team at the age of 18 in 1983 in a game against Norway played in Oslo.

Nevertheless, giraffes are still found in numerous national parks and game reserves.

In the US, CBS is currently the only major network airing daily national game shows.

Although ABC does not air any national game shows, its syndication wing Disney-ABC Domestic Television distributes Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, and many of their local affiliates air it in syndication.

It is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity.

The game of bandy was still popular and amateur leagues leading to national championships were in place.

An accomplished career saw him making 55 further appearances ( the last 22 as captain ) for the national side, with perhaps his best game being 1958 at Wembley Stadium when he scored a hat-trick against the Soviet Union in a 5-0 win.

It is the national game of Bangladesh where it is known as Haḍuḍu.

It framed rules and regulations for the national game.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

In the same period, 431 presentations by members of the staff were made to local, national, and international medical groups.

As a first step toward this goal, arrangements were worked out for comparing the scales now in use through circulation of a group of standard platinum resistance thermometers for calibration by each national laboratory.

They were increasingly looked upon as a means of establishing the new rural communes as the focus of a new, constructive national effort.

Both parties and the Ministry of the Interior were busily at work after the elections trying to unearth the political affiliations of the successful candidates and, thereby, give the elections a confidential but known degree of national political significance.

Since a national interpretation cannot be avoided it is unfortunate that the elections were not held in a way to maximize party responsibility and the educational effect of mass political participation.

Annual authorizations of $15 million were added for area vocational education programs that meet national defense needs for highly skilled technicians.

Admiralty law, the law merchant, and the host of problems which arise in private litigation because of some contact with a foreign country were all severed from the older Law of Nations and made dependent on the several national laws.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

Dr. Melvin W. Barnes, superintendent, said he thought the schools were waiting for some leadership, perhaps on the national level, to make sure that whatever steps of planning they took would `` be more fruitful '', and that he had found that other school districts were not as far along in their planning as this district.

Both, of course, were remarkable feats and further embossed the fact that baseball rightfully is the national pastime.

Advisors for the `` national champion '' company were John K. Morgan, William H. Baker, Leonard Breuer and William F. Stephenson, all of Georgia-Pacific Corp..

This year-to-year decline for Dallas County closely follows the national trend -- estimated sales of domestic cars in the U.S. for first three months of 1961 were about 1,212,000 or 80 per cent of the total in the first quarter a year earlier.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

This features the marching songs of several nations, recorded as though the various national bands were marching by your reviewing stand.

You still said `` John-and-Linda '', but as if you were speaking of a national catastrophe such as the depression or Dillinger.

Since they were hunting for national defense contracts, Adam Herberet, a man of surprising resources, entered the combination as a silent partner because of his political connections.

The Cincinnati Gazette contended that the voters were " depressed by the interminable nature of this war, as so far conducted, and by the rapid exhaustion of the national resources without progress ".

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

In 1994 three national environmental laws were in effect: the Law on Environmental Protection, the Basic Law on the Environment, and the Law on Mineral Resources.

Arminius's views were challenged by the Dutch Calvinists, especially Franciscus Gomarus, but Arminius died before a national synod could occur.