Maryland could soon replace pro-Confederacy state song
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It appears Maryland will be getting a new state song. The current one — the Civil War-era "Maryland, My Maryland" — was a call to arms for the Confederacy and railed against then-President Abraham Lincoln, CBS Baltimore reports.
Its lyrics include lines like "Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!" and "Remember Howard's warlike thrust," evoking Confederate soldier John Eager Howard, who commanded the 2nd Maryland regiment. Lincoln is at one point referred to as a "despot." CBS Baltimore says lawmakers have been looking to get rid of the song for quite some time. Though there has been a decades-long campaign for its repeal, it was only earlier this year that lawmakers voted to scrap it.The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
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