I don’t know if Key meant “slave” here in a literal or figurative sense or both, but I do know that the events occurred in 1814. You know, unlike with the Battle of New Orleans, before the war ended.

Carol Burnett was not a Jack Benny protegee, at all, even though she appeared on two episodes. By that standard, Peter, Paul, and Mary were proteges, having appeared on an episode around the same time, singing “Blowing in the Wind.” If anything, Carol was mentored more by Lucille Ball, who had many more similarities…

Do people realize that the lyrics of “Deutschlandlied” were written in the 1840s as a liberal revolutionary text calling for German unification? And that it was selected by the liberal Weimar republic as Germany’s national anthem in the 1920s for these reasons?  

“Closing prayer.” “Benediction” if you’re putting together the ward program.