Oh, what a lovely question! In the book of Hebrews, the word "better" appears 13 times. Isn't that just delightful? It's like finding little hidden treasures as you read through the pages. Keep ... Adolf's father, Alois, had changed his name from Schicklgruber to Hitler in 1876, on other words , 13 years before AH was born. The song in question is lyricized by Robert William Lamm (October 13 , 1944) -- for recording onto the Chicago V album of 1972 -- with the English-language lyrics containing the name of a Sicilian ... In 1776 the 13 colonies fought for independence from Great Britain. In 1777 the British army tried to split the colonies into two sections so they could defeat them. It didn't work.