Supernature is the third studio album by English electronic music duo Goldfrapp, released on 17 August 2005 by Mute Records. It was their first to incorporate pop and electronic dance music, a blend that was complimented by most critics. Supernature debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, selling 52,976 copies in its first week. It was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in January 2006, and had sold one million copies worldwide as of February 2008. The album spawned four singles: "Number 1", "Ride a White Horse", "Fly Me Away", and its lead single, "Ooh La La", which reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the duo's highest-peaking single to date. In North America, where "Number 1" was promoted as the first single, the album was released in 2006 and did not perform well on the charts. Supernature received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2007.
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1560:
The Scottish Parliament adopted a Protestant confession of faith to initiate the Scottish Reformation and disestablishing Catholicism as the national religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Reformation
1676:
The Battle of Halmstad was fought at Fyllebro and was the last battle in Halland between Denmark and Sweden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halmstad
1915:
American Jew Leo Frank was lynched by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank
1945:
Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution
1998:
U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal
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quiddity: 1. (philosophy) The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing. 2. (law) A trifle; a nicety or quibble. 3. An eccentricity; an odd feature. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quiddity
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Maybe all poetry, insofar as it moves us and connects with us, is a revealing of something that the writer doesn’t actually want to say but desperately needs to communicate, to be delivered of. Perhaps it’s the need to keep it hidden that makes it poetic — makes it poetry. --Ted Hughes https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes