Apparently, the melody of The Star-Spangled Banner was actually ripped off from “The Anacreontic Song”, which was an older song. Unique national designs are apparently hard to come by, judging from the Liberian flag 
and the Malaysian flag. 
Nathan Alter lives in Albuquerque with his wife and kids. He currently develops in C#/.NET, but is learning all the time and has enjoyed computers since programming in Basic on an Atari 400 as a teenager. He started blogging in 1999.
Apparently, the melody of The Star-Spangled Banner was actually ripped off from “The Anacreontic Song”, which was an older song. Unique national designs are apparently hard to come by, judging from the Liberian flag
and the Malaysian flag.