Adore is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band
The Smashing Pumpkins (vocalist Billy Corgan pictured), released on
June 2, 1998, by Virgin Records. After the multi-platinum success of
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and subsequent tour, the
Pumpkins' follow-up album was highly anticipated, but drummer Jimmy
Chamberlin had left the band, and the recording of Adore was
challenging. The album featured a more subdued and electronica-tinged
sound than the band's previous work; Greg Kot of Rolling Stone magazine
called it "a complete break with the past". Sales for the album were far
less than for the band's previous two albums, but it became the third
straight Pumpkins album to be nominated for the Grammy Award for Best
Alternative Music Performance. It was well received by critics, and has
gained a cult following. A remastered and expanded version of the album
was released on CD, vinyl and other formats in September 2014.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adore_%28The_Smashing_Pumpkins_album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1886:
Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom (wedding depicted),
becoming the only U.S. president to wed in the White House.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cleveland>
1967:
German university student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during a
protest in West Berlin against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant 2 June Movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_June_Movement>
1995:
Bosnian War: U.S. Air Force captain Scott O'Grady was shot down
while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia, but ejected safely
and was rescued six days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Grady>
2010:
A gunman carried out a shooting spree in Cumbria, England,
killing 12 people and injuring 11 others before committing suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rubicon:
1. A limit that when exceeded, or an action that when taken, cannot be
reversed.
2. (card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not
achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.
3. (transitive, card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat
a player who has not achieved the rubicon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rubicon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows
suffering to speak. That is, it creates a vision of the world that puts
into the limelight the social misery that is usually hidden or concealed
by the dominant viewpoints of a society. "Intellectual" in that sense
simply means those who are willing to reflect critically upon themselves
as well as upon the larger society and to ascertain whether there is
some possibility of amelioration and betterment.
--Cornel West
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cornel_West>
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