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Man charged with blasting porn soundtrack

Michael Buck got tired of noisy kids playing in the cul-de-sac outside his suburban Philadelphia home. So, to chase them away, he pumped up the volume — of a pornographic soundtrack, police say

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Ode to Joy or anthem of evil?

Over the years Beethoven’s famous melody from the Ninth Symphony has been co-opted for some very doubtful causes In Japan during the Second World War the work rang out over the airfields as the kamikaze pilots sank a last sake and boarded their planes. In Germany in 1945 the ode accompanied the radio announcement of the death of Adolf Hitler

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