Stealing Finland's Anthem: When Nigeria's Igbo people tried to split off and become Biafra, they adopted as their anthem "Land of the Rising Sun," set to the music of "Finlandia" by Jean Sibelius. That particular tune had been practically the anthem of the struggle of the Grand Duchy of Finland, which was battling to break loose of domination by the Russian anthem. Even so, Finland's de facto anthem is called "Maamme." And that piece of music is also used for Est ...

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