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Rihanna

"Don't Stop the Music" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna (shown performing it) for her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad. It was released worldwide on September 7, 2007, as the fourth single of the album. The song was written by Tawanna Dabney and StarGate; Michael Jackson also received a songwriting credit for the sampling of the line "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa" from his 1983 single "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'". "Don't Stop the Music" is a dance track with hip hop rhythmic devices. The song's accolades include a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, number three on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number one in nine countries, including Australia, France, Germany, and Switzerland. It has sold more than 3.7 million copies in the US. The singer performed "Don't Stop the Music" at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards and the NRJ Music Awards in 2008, and included it on her Good Girl Gone Bad, Last Girl on Earth, Loud and Diamonds World Tour set lists. (Full article...)

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Tropical two-wing flyingfish by M. E. Bloch

... that while attempting to escape from underwater predators, the tropical two-wing flyingfish (pictured) may find other hazards above the waves?
... that Canadian basketball player Grandy Glaze made his professional debut in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, which he led in rebounding?
... that the surrender of the Polish garrison at the Battle of Westerplatte on 7 September 1939 ended what has been described as the opening battle of World War II?
... that Margaret Storkan made seven trips to the developing world on the hospital ship SS Hope where she was the only dermatologist?
... that in 2016, fifty years after the Batman villain Poison Ivy was introduced, she starred in her own comic book miniseries?
... that the first victim of the Turkish serial killer Hamdi Kayapınar was his sibling?
... that sand from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and New York City's Rockaway Peninsula was brought by barge to Orchard Beach?
... that the social and political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel argues that humans are waging a war on animals?

In the news

Typhoon Jebi

Jair Bolsonaro, the frontrunner in the upcoming Brazilian presidential election, is stabbed during a campaign rally.
An earthquake in the south of Hokkaido, Japan, results in at least nine deaths.
Typhoon Jebi (satellite image shown) affects Taiwan and Japan, killing at least sixteen people overall and causing extensive damage in the Kansai region of Japan.
Arif Alvi is elected as President of Pakistan.
A court in Myanmar sentences two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for violating the state secrets act while investigating violence against the Rohingya minority.

On this day

September 7: Independence Day in Brazil (1822)

Philo Farnsworth

1159 – Pope Alexander III was chosen as the successor of Pope Adrian IV in a disputed election.
1652 – Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule before being suppressed four days later.
1927 – American inventor Philo Farnsworth (pictured) transmitted the first images using his all-electronic television system.
1984 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and policemen.
2011 – Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl, killing all but one of those aboard.

Gregory Bicskei (d. 1303) · Henry Sewell (b. 1807) · Karen Blixen (d. 1962)

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Memorial Hall at the University of Delaware

There are eight colleges and universities in Delaware. These institutions include two research universities, one master's university, one baccalaureate college, two associate's colleges, and two special-focus institutions. Five of Delaware's post-secondary institutions are private and three are public. Delaware's oldest post-secondary institution is the University of Delaware (Memorial Hall pictured), which was chartered by the Delaware General Assembly as a degree-granting college in 1833. The University of Delaware is also the state's largest institution of higher learning in terms of enrollment. Delaware has two land-grant universities: Delaware State University and the University of Delaware. The state does not have a medical school, but the Delaware Institute of Medical Education and Research reserves spaces for Delaware students at two medical schools in Philadelphia. (Full list...)

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The flugelhorn is a brass instrument which is usually pitched in B♭. It resembles a trumpet, with a tube of the same length but a wider, conical bore. A type of valved bugle, the flugelhorn was developed in Germany from a traditional English valveless bugle, with the first version sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828.

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