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"No" is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor from her second major-label studio album Thank You (2016). Ricky Reed (pictured) produced the song and wrote it with Trainor and Jacob Kasher Hindlin; Epic Records released it as the album's lead single on March 4, 2016. A dance-pop song inspired by 1990s music and R&B, "No" has lyrics about sexual consent and women's empowerment which encourage them to reject unwanted advances from men. Critics praised "No" as a showcase of her confident and mature side, and an improvement from the lyrics on her earlier songs. Charting in the top 10 in various countries, including at number 3 in the U.S., it earned multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, and Poland. Critics compared its music video, which features Trainor dancing in a warehouse, to those of 1990s female artists and praised her evolution. She performed "No" on her 2016 concert tour and television shows such as the iHeartRadio Music Awards and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that Julia Dawson's first Clarion Van (pictured) was named for Scottish socialist Caroline Martyn?
- ... that a Phoenix radio station served as the springboard for future Arizona governor Jack Williams and comedian Steve Allen?
- ... that soprano Sarah Traubel appeared as Inanna in Jörg Widmann's Babylon for the opening of the 2022 Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden?
- ... that the engineering and architectural company Burns & McDonnell is 100% owned by its employees?
- ... that indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd has depicted colonial figures including Captain James Cook and Governor Arthur Phillip as pirates?
- ... that Matthew Healy and George Daniel of The 1975 helped make Pale Waves's debut single, "There's a Honey", "sonically bigger"?
- ... that an episode of the children's TV show Arthur featuring a same-sex wedding was not aired on Alabama's PBS network?
- ... that Dead Cells was published in early access because the developers feared that there would be an "indiepocalypse"?
In the news
- The Chinese paddlefish (pictured), one of the world's largest freshwater fish species, is officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
- Amid protests over the economic crisis, Ranil Wickremesinghe is elected President of Sri Lanka by the parliament.
- Heat waves across Europe leave more than 4,200 people dead.
- NASA releases the first operational image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos dies at the age of 79.
On this day
July 23: Eid al-Mubahalah (Shia Islam, 2022); Birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)
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- 1829 – William Austin Burt was awarded a patent for the typographer, the first practical typewriting machine.
- 1927 – Wilfred Rhodes of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the Warsaw Ghetto the day before.
- 1982 – A helicopter crashed during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie in Valencia, California, killing three people and leading to new safety standards.
- 1995 – Hale–Bopp (pictured), one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century, was independently discovered by astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
- John Babcock (b. 1900)
- Vera Rubin (b. 1928)
- Olivia Manning (d. 1980)
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The Argentine real was the currency of Argentina between 1813 and 1881. From 1822, it was subdivided into ten décimos. The sol was also issued during this period and was equal to the real, while the peso was worth eight reales and the escudo was worth sixteen reales. This 1828 eight-escudo gold coin was issued by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, a predecessor state of modern Argentina, featuring the Sun of May on the obverse and the Argentine coat of arms and motto (En unión y libertad, 'In unity and freedom') on the reverse. The coin forms part of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Coin design credit: United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, photographed by the National Numismatic Collection
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