Bernard Fanning (born 15 August 1969) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Queensland alternative rock band Powderfinger. Born and raised in Toowong, Brisbane, he began writing music at 15. With Ian Haug, John Collins, and Darren Middleton, the band released five studio albums in fifteen years and achieved mainstream success in Australia. During Powderfinger's hiatus in 2005, Fanning began his solo music career with the studio album Tea & Sympathy. Powderfinger reunited in 2007 and released two more albums before disbanding in 2010. While Powderfinger's style focuses on alternative rock, Fanning's solo music is generally described as a mixture of blues and acoustic folk. He plays guitar, piano, keyboards and harmonica. Often speaking out against Australian political figures, Fanning has donated much of his time to philanthropic causes.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1261:

Michael VIII Palaiologos (depiction shown) was crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_VIII_Palaiologos

1915:

The New York World revealed that Germany had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the Allied war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Phenol_Plot

1944:

World War II: Allied forces began their invasion of southern France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dragoon

1998:

A car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army killed 29 people and injured approximately 220 others in Omagh, Northern Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

neroli: More fully neroli oil or oil of neroli: an essential oil distilled from the blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (Citrus × aurantium subsp. amara) used to make perfumes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neroli

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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.   --Sri Aurobindo https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo