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In the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil", there is a lyric that goes "I shouted out/Who killed the Kennedys?/When after all/It was you and me". Was there any stigma around such references in music and TV, considering the song was released five years after Kennedy's death?

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When did national anthems start to become a tradition? Where did it originate? Did ancient civilizations like Sparta or Tenochtitlan have anthems of some kind?

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What was the first modern war? What about the last ancient war?

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In the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil", there is a lyric that goes "I shouted out/Who killed the Kennedys?/When after all/It was you and me". Was there any stigma around such references in music and TV, considering the song was released five years after Kennedy's death?	1452
When did national anthems start to become a tradition? Where did it originate? Did ancient civilizations like Sparta or Tenochtitlan have anthems of some kind?	7
What was the first modern war? What about the last ancient war?	4