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"Made You Look" is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured) from her fifth major-label studio album, Takin' It Back (2022). Trainor wrote the song with Sean Douglas and its producer, Federico Vindver. Epic Records released it as the album's second single on October 31, 2022. A doo-wop song, "Made You Look" was inspired by Trainor's body image insecurities and encourages listeners to embrace their natural beauty. Critics called it flirtatious and compared it to Trainor's past songs. Its dance challenge trended on TikTok. In the US, it peaked at number 11, becoming Trainor's first top-20 single since "Me Too" (2016). It reached the top 10 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, the UK, and Vietnam. Its colorful music video features cameos by social media influencers. Trainor performed the song on television shows such as Today and The Tonight Show. (This article is part of two featured topics: Takin' It Back and Meghan Trainor's Billboard Hot 100 entries.)
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- ... that Julia Marden was the first known person to create a Wampanoag twined turkey-feather mantle since European contact 400 years earlier?
- ... that Aristotle classified living things based on whether they had a "sensitive soul" or, like plants, only a "vegetative soul"?
- ... that Liu Weining, grandson of the second president of the People's Republic of China, became involved with Russian military secrecy due to his job and was denied the ability to travel to China?
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- ... that Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch represented a shift in Mormon history toward a "socially-accepted American cultural and religious heritage", according to historian Jennifer Reeder?
- ... that it is debated whether the 1919 kino-drama Righteous Revenge can be considered the first Korean film?
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- Daniel Noboa (pictured) is elected President of Ecuador.
- The National Party, led by Christopher Luxon, wins the most seats in the New Zealand general election.
- Australian voters reject altering the Constitution to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
- NASA's Psyche mission is launched to explore the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche.
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- 1096 – First Crusade: At the Battle of Civetot, the Seljuk forces of Kilij Arslan destroyed the army of the People's Crusade as it marched toward Nicaea.
- 1867 – The first and second of three treaties were signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the United States federal government and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma.
- 1941 – World War II: German soldiers massacred nearly 2,800 Serbs in Kragujevac in reprisal for insurgent attacks in the district of Gornji Milanovac.
- 1968 – At the height of the Japanese university protests, protestors occupied Shinjuku Station and clashed violently with police.
- 1994 – In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people were killed and 17 others injured when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapsed (pictured).
- Birger Jarl (d. 1266)
- Will Carleton (b. 1845)
- Steph Davies (b. 1987)
- May'n (b. 1989)
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A Boy with a Flying Squirrel is a 1765 painting by the American-born painter John Singleton Copley. It depicts Copley's half-brother Henry Pelham with a pet flying squirrel, a creature commonly found in colonial American portraits as a symbol of the sitter's refinement. Painted while Copley was a Boston-based portraitist aspiring to be recognized by his European contemporaries, the work was taken to London for a 1766 exhibition, where it was met with overall praise from artists like Joshua Reynolds, who nonetheless criticized Copley's minuteness. Later historians and critics assessed the painting as a pivotal work in both Copley's career and the history of American art. It has previously been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Painting credit: John Singleton Copley
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