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"To Be Loved" is a song by English singer Adele (pictured) from her fourth studio album, 30 (2021). Adele wrote the song with Tobias Jesso Jr., who produced it with Shawn Everett. It was released by Columbia Records as the album's 11th track on 19 November 2021. A torch ballad, "To Be Loved" has piano instrumentation and sets Adele's echoey vocals over minimalistic production. The song is about the sacrifices one must make upon falling in love and addresses Adele's divorce from Simon Konecki, attempting to justify to her son why their marriage did not succeed. It received universal acclaim from music critics, who compared Adele's vocal performance to those of Whitney Houston and highlighted it as her all-time best. Several publications included "To Be Loved" in their lists of the best songs of 2021. The song reached the top 40 in Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United States and entered the charts in some other countries. Adele vowed never to perform it live due to its emotional nature. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love (manuscript scene pictured)?
- ... that a Twitter account became a major source on what was happening during the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China?
- ... that Jim Hobbins played two years of professional football, spaced apart by 11 years?
- ... that Baghdad governor Ḥassan Pasha bought the slave who married his granddaughter and went on to become governor of the same city?
- ... that University of Nebraska alumnus M. Khalid Roashan helped draft the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan?
- ... that the authors of The Neanderthals Rediscovered learned that their book proposal had been accepted on the same day they took their twin sons home from hospital?
- ... that Władysław Umiński has been called the "Polish Jules Verne"?
- ... that current NHL player Alex Laferriere refused to try out ice skating at a young age, and only did so when bribed with Skittles?
In the news
- In cricket, the World Cup concludes with Australia defeating India in the final (Player of the Match Travis Head pictured).
- Pedro Sánchez is invested as Prime Minister of Spain, after proposing amnesty for Catalan separatists and then receiving support from them.
- In the Myanmar civil war, opposition forces capture multiple cities in a major offensive against the ruling military junta.
- In stock car racing, Ryan Blaney wins the NASCAR Cup Series championship.
On this day
November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces began the Siege of Knoxville against Union fortifications, surrounding most of the city.
- 1921 – Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.
- 1933 – The Union of the Right, a coalition of right-wing parties, won the majority of seats in the 1933 Spanish general election, the first election in the country with suffrage extended to women.
- 1985 – The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
- 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 23 people and injured at least 160 others.
- Nicolas Poussin (d. 1665)
- C. X. Larrabee (b. 1843)
- John O'Reily (b. 1846)
- Larry King (b. 1933)
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The grey triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the triggerfish family, Balistidae. The species is native to shallow parts of the western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Argentina and also the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and off Angola on the west coast of Africa. It is typically found over hard bottoms on reefs and rocky areas, in lagoons and in bays, at depths down to about 55 metres. It moves using undulations of its dorsal fins, and if threatened, can work its way into a protective crevice and wedge itself in place by erecting its front dorsal spine. It is difficult to dislodge from this position. The grey triggerfish is a demersal species and feeds on bottom-dwelling invertebrates such as shrimps, crabs, molluscs, sea urchins, sand dollars, starfish and sea cucumbers. This grey triggerfish was photographed in Arrábida Natural Park, Setúbal District, Portugal. Photograph credit: Diego Delso
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