Maryland never joined the Confederacy, but for 82 years its state song was an anti-Lincoln diss track set to the tune of ‘O Tannenbaum’.
Category: History
Whatever you do, don’t say—
Foxes are red, horses are blue.
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The Fall of Sikkim
Part six: Chogyal gone.
Part five: The snake and the storm.
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The Chogyal’s Gambit
Part four: More milk, more problems.
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The King and Queen of Sikkim
Part three: Wedding bells and drums of war.
Part two: The 22-year-old New Yorker who became Himalayan royalty. A real riches-to-different-riches story.
Part one: The lost kingdom of the Himalayas.
Our one and only New Year’s song is written in a language you may have never heard of.