Goldfrapp, released on 17 August 2005 by Mute Records. It was their
first to incorporate pop and electronic dance music, a blend that was
complimented by most critics. Supernature debuted at number two on the
UK Albums Chart, selling 52,976 copies in its first week. It was
certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in January
2006, and had sold one million copies worldwide as of February 2008. The
album spawned four singles: "Number 1", "Ride a White Horse", "Fly Me
Away", and its lead single, "Ooh La La", which reached number four on
the UK Singles Chart, becoming the duo's highest-peaking single to date.
In North America, where "Number 1" was promoted as the first single, the
album was released in 2006 and did not perform well on the charts.
Supernature received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Electronic/Dance
Album in 2007.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernature_(Goldfrapp_album)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1560:
The Scottish Parliament adopted a Protestant confession of
faith to initiate the Scottish Reformation and disestablishing
Catholicism as the national religion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Reformation>
1676:
The Battle of Halmstad was fought at Fyllebro and was the last
battle in Halland between Denmark and Sweden.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halmstad>
1915:
American Jew Leo Frank was lynched by a mob of prominent
citizens in Marietta, Georgia, for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old
girl.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank>
1945:
Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed the independence of
Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch
Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution>
1998:
U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he
had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica
Lewinsky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
quiddity:
1. (philosophy) The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
2. (law) A trifle; a nicety or quibble.
3. An eccentricity; an odd feature.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quiddity>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Maybe all poetry, insofar as it moves us and connects with us,
is a revealing of something that the writer doesn't actually want to
say but desperately needs to communicate, to be delivered of. Perhaps
it's the need to keep it hidden that makes it poetic — makes it
poetry.
--Ted Hughes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes>
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