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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
Star-Spangled Banner
the ˌStar-ˌSpangled ˈBanner [Star-Spangled Banner] BrE NAmE noun singular
the national ↑anthem (= song) of the US
Culture:
The song was written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, an American lawyer, as he watched British ships trying without success to capture Fort McHenry in ↑Maryland during the ↑War of 1812. He wrote the words and added the music of an old British song. The US ↑Congress officially made it the country’s national anthem in 1931. It ends: And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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