"Today" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, written by lead vocalist and guitarist Billy Corgan(pictured in 2010). "Today" was released in September 1993 as the second single from the band's second album and major label debut, Siamese Dream. The song, seemingly upbeat, contains dark lyrics. Corgan wrote it about a day when he had suicidal thoughts, exemplified by the reference to self-mutilation in the chorus. The contrast between the grim subject matter of the song and the soft instrumental part during the verses, coupled with use of irony in the lyrics, left many listeners unaware of the song's tale of depression and desperation. Although Corgan opted for "Cherub Rock", the lead single from the album, to be the opening track, "Today" and its follow-up "Disarm" are credited in AllMusic for popularizing the band and "sen[ding] [Siamese Dream] into the stratosphere". "Today" has been generally well received by critics, and in an article about the song in Blender it was described as having "achieved a remarkable status as one of the defining songs of its generation, perfectly mirroring the fractured alienation of American youth in the 1990s." (Full article...)
... that Elsa Collin(pictured) was the first woman at any Swedish university to be part of a student spex show?
... that DashCon offered attendees an "extra hour" in a ball pit to compensate them for a cancelled celebrity panel?
... that Adrian P. Thomas's videotaped confession regarding the death of his four-month-old son is the center of a documentary film on coerced confessions, Scenes of a Crime?
... that at the time of its discovery, S Antliae had the shortest period of any known variable star?
A variety of Polish flags are defined in current Polish national law, either through an act of parliament or a ministerial ordinance. Apart from the national flag(pictured), these are mostly military flags, used by one or all branches of the Polish Armed Forces, especially the Polish Navy. Most Polish flags feature white and red, the national colors of Poland. The national colors, officially adopted in 1831, are of heraldic origin and derive from the tinctures of the coats of arms of Poland and Lithuania. Additionally, some flags incorporate the white eagle of the Polish coat of arms, while other flags used by the Armed Forces incorporate military eagles, which are variants. Both variants of the national flag of Poland were officially adopted in 1919, shortly after Poland re-emerged as an independent state in the aftermath of World War I in 1918. Many Polish flags were adopted within the following three years. The stylization of the eagle changed from Neoclassicist to Baroque in 1927. (Full list...)
Venus and Anchises (1889/90), an oil painting by William Blake Richmond which depicts the goddess Venus and her mortal lover Anchises. Richmond, although better known as a portrait painter, aspired to create large, allegoric works; this drive also influenced his workings in glass mosaics.
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