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[tomato]

The composer of Home on the Range lived in a Manhattan condominium.

The composer of Dixie was a Yankee.

The composer of The Battle Hymn of the Republic was a Southerner.

The composer of the South Korean national anthem immigrated to the United States.

Stephen Foster never even saw the Swanee River.
He only got the name from a map.

The composer of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Holly Jolly Christmas, and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree was Jewish.

Now doesn't that destroy your faith in humanity?

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

Dixie was a song made to mock southerners. It's got a nice tune to it, though.

[InDaGu]

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

Great fact. Thanks! I didn't know that

[InDaGu]

I knew I'd get to put that History degree to good use some day.

[diver]

Joni Mitchell never made it to Woodstock.

[erasmus]

[Kaypea]

"Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf" was Hitler's favorite song.

[Died By Bear]

The composer of Home on the Range lived in a Manhattan condominium.


Born in Rutland, Ohio, the grandson of Rutland's founder Brewster Higley IV,[3] Higley VI began studying medicine at La Porte Medical College in La Porte, Indiana at the age of eighteen. After graduating in 1849, he resettled in Pomeroy, Ohio and established his first medical practice.[3] He briefly practiced medicine in Indiana and finally moved to Kansas in 1871 to claim land under the Homestead Act of 1862.[3][4]
Brewster spent most of his remaining days in Kansas, but died in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1911, where he is buried in Fairview Cemetery. A great-grandson, Warren Higley, lived from 1922-2006. And great-grandson Nathaniel Infante became inspired by Michael Jackson when they worked together. When young Nathaniel found out about the death of Michael he was very emotional. Nathaniel now lives in Columbia, SC, goes to school at Summit Parkway Middle School, and lives with brothers and parents.





The composer of Dixie was a Yankee.

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The composer of The Battle Hymn of the Republic was a Southerner.


Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 � October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the fourth of seven children born to Samuel Ward (May 1, 1786 � November 27, 1839) and Julia Rush Cutler. Among her siblings was Samuel Cutler Ward. Her father was a well-to-do banker. Her mother, granddaughter of William Greene (August 16, 1731 � November 30, 1809), Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray, died when Julia was five.


The composer of the South Korean national anthem immigrated to the United States.

Ahn Eak-tai was born in the northern part of the Korean peninsula just before the Japanese occupation, and attended a school staffed by Catholic missionaries. There he developed an interest in music as he played a trumpet in the school orchestra. He received his higher education from the Kunitachi Music School in Japan, at the University of Cincinnati, and at the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States during the Great Depression. Ahn continued his study at Vienna under Bernhard Paumgartner, and under Professor Zoltan Kodaly at the E�tv�s Lor�nd University in Hungary. Upon a second visit to Vienna, Ahn received assistance from Richard Strauss to bring Symphonic Fantasy Korea to near completion. Beginning with a concert in Budapest, Ahn spent the next five years conducting in Europe. The escalation of World War II brought Ahn to Spain, where he met Lolita Talavera, his future wife. After their marriage in 1946, the two moved to the United States, where Ahn conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra. Then, in 1955, Ahn returned to South Korea, and conducted the Seoul Philharmonic until his death.



Stephen Foster never even saw the Swanee River. He only got the name from a map.


"Swanee" is an American popular song written in 1919 by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. It is most often associated with singer Al Jolson.
The song was written for a New York City revue called Demi-Tasse, which opened in October 1919 in the Capitol Theater. Caesar and Gershwin, who was then aged 20, claimed to have written the song in about ten minutes riding on a bus in Manhattan, and then at Gershwin's apartment. It was written partly as a parody of Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home". It was originally used as a big production number, with 60 chorus girls dancing with electric lights in their slippers on an otherwise darkened stage.

The composer of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Holly Jolly Christmas, and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree was Jewish.
True!


Now doesn't that destroy your faith in humanity?



No.

[BaldTeacher]

Almost everything Tupac said was a drunken lie or embellishment.

Before he became famous, he was a ballerina with questionable sexuality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrD-Yp3a-dY

[Louis VI]

[eamo]

[Died By Bear]

You do realize that Tomato just re-posted a chain email that he got this morning.

[machoman]

[cj1976]