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Rodrigo performing "Love Is Embarrassing"

"Love Is Embarrassing" is a song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo (pictured) from her second studio album, Guts (2023). A new wave song with influences of riot grrrl, pop rock, and pop-punk, it has self-deprecating lyrics in which she derides a crush and expresses embarrassment about her attraction to him. Rodrigo co-wrote the song with its producer, Dan Nigro. Music critics found the lyricism of "Love Is Embarrassing" relatable and praised the production and Rodrigo's vocals, both of which they also compared to other artists. The song reached the top 30 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United States, and entered the charts in several other countries. It received a platinum certification in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. Rodrigo included the song on the set list of her 2024–2025 concert tour, the Guts World Tour. She suffered a wardrobe malfunction while performing the song during the London tour stop, which critics believed she handled well. (Full article...)

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June 12: Dia dos Namorados in Brazil; Loving Day and Women Veterans Day in the United States

Wreckage of Air India Flight 171

1240 – The Disputation of Paris, in which four rabbis defended the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusations of blasphemy, began in the court of King Louis IX.
1776 – The Fifth Virginia Convention adopted a declaration of rights, an influential document that proclaimed the inherent rights of men.
1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise, was released.
1999 – In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered the territory with a mandate of establishing a secure environment.
2025 – Air India Flight 171 (wreckage pictured) crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, India, killing 260 people.

John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
Thomas C. Hart (b. 1877)
Milorad Petrović (d. 1981)
Christine Sinclair (b. 1983)

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Map of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly constituencies

There are 230 constituencies of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the unicameral legislature of Madhya Pradesh, a state in Central India. The seat of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is at Bhopal, the state capital. The state legislative assembly's 230 members are directly elected from single-seat constituencies and sit for a term of five years, unless it is dissolved early. Madhya Pradesh is the second-largest state in India and its sixth-most populous, with a population of 72.6 million. Since the independence of India, the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) have been given reservation status, guaranteeing political representation, and the Constitution of India lays down the general principles of positive discrimination for STs and SCs. The STs have been granted a reservation of 47 seats, while 35 constituencies are reserved for candidates of SCs. (Full list...)

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Charles Nettleton (1826–1902) was an English-born Australian photographer who documented the rapid development of Melbourne and the state of Victoria during the nineteenth century. After emigrating to Australia in 1854, he photographed the first steam train journey in Australia and was later commissioned to record major public works, railways, buildings, waterways and shipping. Working mainly with the wet plate process, he produced extensive views of Melbourne and published some of Australia's earliest photographic souvenir albums. Nettleton also served as a police photographer, his work including an 1880 portrait of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly on the eve of his execution. He exhibited internationally, including in London and Paris, before retiring in 1890 after the rise of dry plate photography. This photograph of Nettleton was taken in the mid-to-late-1890s by a photographer from the Talma & Co. studio.

Photograph credit: Talma & Co.; restored by Adam Cuerden

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