Star-Spangled Banner, The

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Star′-Spangled Ban′ner, The, 

1. Government See Stars and Stripes. 
2. Music and Dance (italics) the national anthem of the United States of America, based on a poem written by Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, and set by him to the melody of the English song To Anacreon in Heaven: officially adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1931.