15 Sep
2023
15 Sep
'23
5 a.m.
"Love Story" is a country pop song written and sung by Taylor Swift
(pictured). It was released on September 15, 2008, as the lead single
from Swift's album Fearless. Swift used Romeo and Juliet as a reference
point while writing "Love Story". The lyrics are about a couple's happy
ending after enduring a troubled romance. Critics praised the production
as catchy and have considered it one of Swift's best singles. "Love
Story" peaked in the top five on charts of at least seven countries
including the US, where it is Swift's best-selling single. Its music
video won Video of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards and
CMT Music Awards in 2009. Following the dispute over the ownership of
Swift's back catalog, Swift re-recorded the song and released it as
"Love Story (Taylor's Version)" in 2021. The re-recorded single topped
the Hot Country Songs chart and made Swift the second artist, after
Dolly Parton, to reach number one with both the original and re-recorded
versions of a song.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_%28Taylor_Swift_song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1795:
French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape
Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Cape_Colony>
1830:
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M;), the first
locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, opened with the
Duke of Wellington in attendance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_of_the_Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway>
1954:
The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in
a white dress over a subway grate was filmed by Billy Wilder.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dress_of_Marilyn_Monroe>
2013:
The Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two
saleswomen in Lida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Kulesh>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
plebiscite:
1. (law, politics) A direct popular vote on an issue of public
importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the
sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy; a referendum.
2. (by extension) An expression of the public's views on an issue,
whether legally binding or not.
3. (Ancient Rome, historical) Synonym of plebiscitum (“a law enacted by
the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some
subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the
senate”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plebiscite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention,
in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from
laziness. To save oneself trouble.
--Agatha Christie
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie>
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