"My Happiness" is a song by Australian rock band Powderfinger
(pictured), released by Universal Music Australia on 21 August 2000 as
the first single from the band's fourth album, Odyssey Number Five.
Frontman Bernard Fanning, inspired by a love of gospel and soul music,
wrote the lyrics for "My Happiness" as a reflection on the loneliness
the band felt while touring. The rest of the band are co-credited with
Fanning for composing the track. Powderfinger's most successful single,
it peaked at number four on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, was
instantly successful in New Zealand, and was the first Powderfinger song
to appear on the American Hot Modern Rock Tracks. It won an ARIA and an
APRA Award, topped the Triple J Hottest 100 poll in 2000, and placed
27th in the 2009 Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time poll. Along with the
single "My Kind of Scene", "My Happiness" was highly praised by
critics;
even negative reviews of Odyssey Number Five noted it as a highlight,
especially for its catchy chorus.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Happiness_(Powderfinger_song)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1140:
Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeated an army led by Jin
dynasty general Wanyan Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the
Jin–Song Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yancheng>
1858:
The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
A. Douglas, candidates for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate,
was held in Ottawa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates>
1911:
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by a
museum employee and was not recovered until two years later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa>
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the
Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the
Guadalcanal Campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Tenaru>
2007:
Hurricane Dean made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula as a
Category 5 storm, causing 45 deaths and US$1.5 billion in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dean>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
occultation:
1. (astronomy) An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object
is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the
observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the
more distant object.
2. The state of being occult (“hidden, undetected”).
3. (Shia Islam) The disappearance of the messianic figure, or Mahdi, who
will one day return to the world.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/occultation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Once upon a time I was falling in love But now I'm only falling
apart And there's nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart Once
upon a time there was light in my life But now there's only love in the
dark Nothing I can say A total eclipse of the heart.
--Jim Steinman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman>