released as the lead single of her eleventh studio album Hard Candy
(2008), featuring vocals by American singers Justin Timberlake and
Timbaland. The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100,
giving Madonna her 37th top-ten single and breaking the all-time record
previously held by Elvis Presley. It also received positive reviews and
topped the charts in twenty-one countries, including Australia, Canada,
Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. An uptempo dance-pop song
with an urban and hip hop style, "4 Minutes" incorporates Timbaland's
characteristic bhangra beats, with brass, foghorns and cowbells. It was
performed by Madonna on the promotional tour for Hard Candy and the
2008–09 Sticky & Sweet Tour. The song received two Grammy Award
nominations for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and Best Remixed
Recording, Non-Classical at the 2009 ceremony. In the accompanying music
video, Madonna and Timberlake are running away from a giant black screen
that devours everything in its path, including them, in the end. She
cited the song as the inspiration for the documentary I Am Because We
Are (2008).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Minutes_(Madonna_song)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1602:
English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold led the first recorded
European expedition to visit Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Gosnold>
1793:
Inventor Diego Marín Aguilera, the "father of aviation" in
Spain, flew one of the first gliders for about 360 m (1,180 ft).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Mar%C3%ADn_Aguilera>
1869:
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (both pictured)
founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the
American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously
founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Woman_Suffrage_Association>
1997:
During the dedication of the Laos Memorial in Arlington
National Cemetery, the United States first publicly acknowledged its
role in the Laotian Civil War, which had ended 22 years earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War>
2010:
Upon her return to Sydney three days before her 17th birthday,
Jessica Watson became the youngest person to sail non-stop and
unassisted around the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
plangent:
Having a loud, mournful sound.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plangent>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One might think you knew all about witches, to hear you chatter.
But your words prove you to be very ignorant of the subject. You may
find good people and bad people in the world; and so, I suppose, you may
find good witches and bad witches. But I must confess most of the
witches I have known were very respectable, indeed, and famous for their
kind actions.
--L. Frank Baum
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum>
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