Doja Cat

"Streets" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat (pictured). Appearing on her second studio album Hot Pink (2019), it is an R&B ballad with lyrics about a desire to return to a former romantic partner. The song became a sleeper hit around 15 months after the album's release—specifically, it went viral on the video-sharing application TikTok. It appeared in over 300,000 TikTok videos as background music for the "Silhouette Challenge", an online challenge in which participants danced while illuminated from behind with red lighting. Driven primarily by streams and digital sales, the song peaked within the top 20 of many national record charts, including the US Billboard Hot 100, and received platinum certifications in eight countries. "Streets" was sent to US contemporary hit radio stations as Hot Pink's seventh and final single on February 16, 2021. A corresponding music video premiered the next month, depicting Doja Cat's own version of the Silhouette Challenge. (Full article...)

Mutilated chessboard

• ... that if you remove two opposite corners of a chessboard, you cannot cover all squares with dominos?
• ... that in 1875, Robert J. Fulton moved Boston College by 60 feet (18 m)?
• ... that the Jihadist Burkinabè rebels' ongoing siege of Djibo has been described as a "Ukrainian death"?
• ... that Chunyu Yi may have been the "ancient founder of the case history tradition"?
• ... that in 2010, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Atlanta became the first church in the state to be elevated to the rank of a minor basilica?
• ... that Robert Nimmo's command of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan remains the longest ever command of a United Nations operation?
• ... that the Victory Theatre, the first theater on 42nd Street to show adult movies, later became a children's theater?
• ... that religious studies scholar C. Jouco Bleeker believed that religions are like acorns?

Liz Truss

• Amid a government crisis in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Liz Truss (pictured) announces her resignation.
• Ulf Kristersson is elected Prime Minister of Sweden following a four-party agreement.
• Hurricane Julia leaves more than 90 people dead across South and Central America.
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  many Ukrainian cities with missiles.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

• 1345 – Hundred Years' War: The English victory at the Battle of Auberoche marked a change in the military balance of power in Aquitaine, with the subsequent collapse of the French position.
• 1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were sent to the Ottoman Empire to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
• 1944 – World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded, making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
• 1959 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (pictured), designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
• 1966 – A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan, Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.