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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of today’s trivia, and it looks to be about Jake Lundberg’s brief history of “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” written by Julia Ward Howe—and shared with the world by The Atlantic in 1862.
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In 1861, a writing contest was held to find a replacement for what song that organizers considered “almost useless” for its difficult vocal range and vague, patriotic lyrics?
Its high note is on the word free.
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