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"Sweetheart" is a song written by American singer Rainy Davis (pictured) and Pete Warner, produced with Dorothy Kessler, and originally recorded by Davis. The lyrics describe a woman's desire for a person with whom to share a romance. It was released in 1986 by independent record label SuperTronics as a single from Davis's 1987 album Sweetheart. A freestyle, hip hop pop, and synth-funk song, it appeared on R&B and dance music charts in the US. Mariah Carey recorded a cover version with rapper Jermaine Dupri for his 1998 debut album, Life in 1472, and her greatest hits album, #1's. So So Def Recordings and Columbia Records released it as a single from the former album and promoted it with a Hype Williams music video. In the US and the UK, the cover charted only on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 and UK club charts. It reached the top twenty on the Dutch, German, and Swiss charts. In reviews, critics focused on Carey's vocal performance, Dupri's rapping style, and the cover's sexual nature. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that Ein Samiya (pictured), which provides the water for Taybeh, the first beer brewed in Palestine, was depopulated in 2023 after harassment by neighboring Israeli settlers?
- ... that when Carla Monroe's vocals were used in MK's "17", she was working in a prison?
- ... that basketball player Lou Williams was nicknamed "Lemon Pepper Lou" after an incident involving lemon pepper wings?
- ... that Jerome Epstein was advised not to take credit for his production work on Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight due to accusations that Chaplin had communist sympathies?
- ... that Amtrak opened the Jeffersonville train station before ending its only service there less than four years later?
- ... that Austrian online streamer Keekihime became fluent in Japanese from live-streaming daily on the Japanese video website Nico Douga?
- ... that police in Indianola, Mississippi, shot an unarmed 11-year-old African-American boy after responding to his 9-1-1 call for help at his home?
- ... that Whisnu Sakti Buana served as the mayor of Surabaya, Indonesia, for just one week in 2021?
In the news
- In the United States, actors in the SAG-AFTRA trade union (president Fran Drescher pictured) go on strike, joining writers in the Writers Guild of America strike.
- In the Netherlands, the governing coalition collapses and Prime Minister Mark Rutte announces his upcoming resignation.
- In Brazil, the Superior Electoral Court bars former president Jair Bolsonaro from running for political office until 2030 for abuse of power before the 2022 general election.
- Riots break out across France after a 17-year-old is fatally shot by police in Paris.
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- 1815 – Aboard HMS Bellerophon, French emperor Napoleon (pictured) surrendered to Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, concluding the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1870 – Manitoba was established as a province of Canada following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company.
- 1943 – The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
- 1983 – Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000, was released in Japan.
- 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
- Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (d. 1445)
- Vilfredo Pareto (b. 1848)
- Nugroho Notosusanto (b. 1930)
- Ebrahim Desai (d. 2021)
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Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish Symbolist painter. One the most revered painters of Poland, he was associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of partitions. Malczewski is regarded as the father of Polish symbolism, and his creative output combined the predominant style of his times with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek mythology, folk tales, as well as his love of the natural world. Many of Malczewski's paintings prominently feature self-portraits in elaborate costume, including this 1914 oil-on-canvas painting, titled Self-Portrait in White Dress, which depicts him wearing a white traditional 19th-century artist's smock-frock, a white neckerchief (a common garment for European men in the 18th and 19th century), and a wide white beret. The portrait is in the collection of the National Museum in Kraków. Painting credit: Jacek Malczewski
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