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Californication is the seventh studio album by American rock band Red
Hot Chili Peppers, released on June 8, 1999, on Warner Bros. Records.
Produced by Rick Rubin, Californication saw the return of John
Frusciante, who had previously appeared on Mother's Milk and Blood
Sugar Sex Magik, to replace Dave Navarro as the band's guitarist.
Frusciante's return was credited with changing the band's sound. The
record marked a shift in style from the Navarro era. The album's
lyric's incorporates various sexual innuendos often associated with the
band, but contains more varied themes than previous releases, such as
lust, death, suicide, California, drugs, globalization and travel. The
Chili Peppers' most commercially successful studio release,
Californication has sold over 16 million copies worldwide. The record
produced several hits for the band, including "Otherside",
"Californication" and the Grammy Award-winning "Scar Tissue".
Californication peaked at number three on the U.S. Billboard 200.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
The North Carolina General Assembly chartered the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the oldest public universities in the
United States and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill>
1886:
Dial Square, a football club from Woolwich, London, that would
eventually become known as Arsenal, played their first match, winning
6–0 against Eastern Wanderers on an open field in the Isle of Dogs.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Arsenal_F.C._%281886%E2%80%931966%29>
1962:
Convicted murderers Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas were the last two
persons to be executed in Canada.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Canada>
2005:
A demonstration by Australians in Cronulla, New South Wales, against
recent violence towards locals turned into a race riot.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots>
2006:
The first action in the Mexican Drug War took place as President Felipe
Calderón ordered Mexican military and Federal Police units into the
state of Michoacán.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
matronly (adj):
1. In the way of a matron.
2. Exuding authority, wisdom, power, and intelligence of an
experienced woman.
3. Having the appearance of an mature woman, often of larger physical
stature and somewhat unkempt or dowdy
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matronly>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life,
when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with
Reluctance but with Pleasure.
--George Mason
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