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A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda . In the first personifications in the Western World , warrior deities or figures symbolizing wisdom were used (for example the goddess Athena in ancient Greece), to indicate the strength ...
National personifications in comic books (4 C, 11 P) I. Personifications of Ireland (12 P) M. Marianne (personification) (5 P) U. Uncle Sam (26 P) Pages in category ...
The song "Hail, Columbia," an American patriotic song. It was considered with several other songs one of the unofficial national anthems of the United States until 1931, when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was officially named the national anthem. The song "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" (1843) commemorates the United States under the name Columbia.
A number of national personifications stick to the old formulas, with a female in classical dress, carrying attributes suggesting power, wealth, or other virtues. [ 59 ] Libertas , the Roman goddess of liberty , had been important under the Roman Republic , and was somewhat uncomfortably co-opted by the Roman Empire ; [ 60 ] it was not seen as ...
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
"Our Burma Song"/ "We Burman Song" 1943–1945 Thakin Ba Thaung and YMB Saya Tin: YMB Saya Tin [note 8] Cambodia "Damnoer Satharonarodth Khmer" [trans 12] "March of the Khmer Republic" 1970–1975 Khieu Chum: Khieu Chum Cambodia "Dap Prampi Mesa Chokchey" [trans 13] "Glorious Seventeenth of April" 1976–1979 (internationally depicted until ...
At that time people used to sing a song in the Provençal dialect of Occitan by the poet Guillaume Lavabre : "La garisou de Marianno" (French: "La guérison de Marianne"; "Marianne's recovery (from illness)"). At the time Marie-Anne was a very popular first name; according to Agulhon, it "was chosen to designate a régime that also saw itself ...
A cover of Sentry magazine, approx. 1932, depicting Russia as a woman in a traditional costume liberated by a warrior in medieval armor with a shield depicting the National russian, trampling the Communist flag. The words "ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕСЕ" roughly translate to "Christ is risen".