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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 ::
My countries, 'tis of y'all/And Yanks abhor 'em all/Except U.K. Did you know that the European Union has an anthem? It's Beethoven's "Ode To Joy." I think I read that a long time ago, but forgot (they adopted it in the mid 80's, which means that it may have been in contention with Falco's "Der Commissar," which would be a great anthem for such a bureaucratic entity). Today's Wall Street Journal featured a story (which I can't link to, because you have to PAY to view the WSJ online....now that's capitalism for you) today about how there's a push to come up with words for it. The original piece was written for a poem called "Ode To Joy," which was celebrating, among other things, the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. See, they even owe us for their national anthem. It makes me feel all patriot-fuzzy inside.