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Rainy Davis, singer

"Sweetheart" is a song written by American singer Rainy Davis (pictured) and Pete Warner, produced with Dorothy Kessler, and originally recorded by Davis. The lyrics describe a woman's desire for a person with whom to share a romance. It was released in 1986 by independent record label SuperTronics as a single from Davis's 1987 album Sweetheart. A freestyle, hip hop pop, and synth-funk song, it appeared on R&B and dance music charts in the US. Mariah Carey recorded a cover version with rapper Jermaine Dupri for his 1998 debut album, Life in 1472, and her greatest hits album, #1's. So So Def Recordings and Columbia Records released it as a single from the former album and promoted it with a Hype Williams music video. In the US and the UK, the cover charted only on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 and UK club charts. It reached the top twenty on the Dutch, German, and Swiss charts. In reviews, critics focused on Carey's vocal performance, Dupri's rapping style, and the cover's sexual nature. (Full article...)

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Surrender of Napoleon

1815 – Aboard HMS Bellerophon, French emperor Napoleon (pictured) surrendered to Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, concluding the Napoleonic Wars.
1870 – Manitoba was established as a province of Canada following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company.
1943 – The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
1983 – Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000, was released in Japan.
2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.

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Jacek Malczewski's Self-Portrait in White Dress, depicting him wearing a white traditional 19th century artist's smock-frock, a white neckerchief, and a wide white beret

Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish Symbolist painter. One the most revered painters of Poland, he was associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of partitions. Malczewski is regarded as the father of Polish symbolism, and his creative output combined the predominant style of his times with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek mythology, folk tales, as well as his love of the natural world. Many of Malczewski's paintings prominently feature self-portraits in elaborate costume, including this 1914 oil-on-canvas painting, titled Self-Portrait in White Dress, which depicts him wearing a white traditional 19th-century artist's smock-frock, a white neckerchief (a common garment for European men in the 18th and 19th century), and a wide white beret. The portrait is in the collection of the National Museum in Kraków.

Painting credit: Jacek Malczewski

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