"Water Under the Bridge" is a song by the English singer Adele (pictured) from her third studio album 25 (2015). Adele wrote the song with its producer, Greg Kurstin. Columbia Records released the track as the album's fourth single on 14 November 2016. A mid-tempo pop, soul and soft-rock song, "Water Under the Bridge" incorporates influences of 1980s music, R&B; and a gospel choir over guitars and snare drums. Inspired by her relationship with the charity founder Simon Konecki, who Adele dated for seven years and married in 2018, the song speaks of forgiveness and details the crucial point in a courtship of determining whether one's partner is willing to put in the work to make it succeed. Music critics praised Adele's vocal performance, though some thought it was too loud and criticised some of the production choices. It reached number one in Israel and the top ten in Poland, Belgium and Iceland and gained Platinum or higher certifications in Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1942:

World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Uranus

1985:

The first of five summits between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Summit_%281985%29

2005:

Iraq War: A group of United States Marines massacred 25 people in the town of Haditha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre

2010:

The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_River_Mine_disaster

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

man engine: (historical) A mechanical lift for raising and lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (mining), a device by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft, consisting of a series of landings or sollars in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A person steps from a landing to a shelf and is raised or lowered to the next landing, upon which they then step, and so on, travelling by successive stages. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man_engine

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty.   --James A. Garfield https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield