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 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 ".

", or alternatively " God before you, Devil !").

It concludes with the phrase " MiToh Bitahon BeTzur Yisrael ", roughly translated as " With faith in the God of Israel ", or alternatively " From the strength of Israel ".

* Enchiridion of Dietrich Philips, alternatively title The Handbook of the Christian Doctrine and Religion, compiled ( by the grace of God ) from the Holy Scriptures for the benefit of all lovers of the Truth

Baptism with the Holy Spirit ( alternatively Baptism in the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost ) in Christian theology is a term describing baptism ( washing or immersion ) in or with the Spirit of God and is frequently associated with the bestowal of spiritual gifts and empowerment for Christian ministry.

His Swedenborgian solution to the problem of evil relied on breaking the bond between God and nature, or, put alternatively, between nature and reality.

In Egypt, whence according to the Exodus narrative the Hebrews had recently come, the Apis Bull was a comparable object of worship, which some believe the Hebrews were reviving in the wilderness ; alternatively, some believe the God of Israel was associated with or pictured as a calf / bull deity through the process of religious assimilation and syncretism.

* If the warrior receives too many gifts and is unable to endure any more, he can become a Chaos Spawn ( also known as a " Spawn of Chaos " in Warhammer Fantasy ); alternatively, a Spawn could simply be a warrior who has spent too much time in contact with the warping power of Chaos, and has mutated without direct action by a Chaos God.

Al-A ` raaf ( Arabic الأعراف, alternatively transcribed Aʿraf or Al Orf ) was a place where people who have been neither markedly good nor markedly bad had to stay until forgiven by God and let into Paradise, as discussed in Sura 7 of the Qur ' an.

The agnostic theist may also or alternatively be agnostic regarding the properties of the God ( s ) they believe in.

The Shakers were also among the first groups to refer to God as Father / Mother or to alternatively refer to God as Mother sometimes while referring to God as Father at other times.

The Hiranyagarbha is alternatively viewed as Brahma, the creator who was in turn created by God, or as God ( Brahman ) himself.

The Hiranyagarbha is alternatively viewed as Brahma, the creator who was in turn created by God, or as God ( Brahman ) Himself.