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Olivia Rodrigo

"Deja Vu" is a song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo (pictured) from her debut studio album, Sour (2021). Rodrigo wrote the song with its producer, Dan Nigro. Geffen and Interscope Records released it as the album's second single on April 1, 2021. Incorporating various pop sub-genres, "Deja Vu" is about heartbreak and explores Rodrigo's anguish about her ex-partner repeating things they did in his new relationship. It received critical acclaim; many considered it a strong follow-up to "Drivers License" (2021). "Deja Vu" debuted at number eight in the US and made Rodrigo the first artist to debut their first two singles in the top ten, peaking at number three. The song reached the top ten in various countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. Allie Avital directed the music video, which depicts Rodrigo observing her ex mimic their relationship with his new love interest. Rodrigo performed the song on shows and included it on the set list for her 2022 Sour Tour. (Full article...)

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Bridgeman Island

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1100 – Theodoric was elected by opponents of Pope Gregory VII, following the death of Antipope Clement III.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the contiguous United States, was founded by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
1831 – The Russian Empire suppressed the November Uprising in Poland with the capture of Warsaw after a two-day assault.
1954 – Eight nations signed a collective-defense treaty in Manila to create the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (flag pictured), modelled on NATO.
1991 – At the Tailhook Association symposium in Las Vegas, US Navy and Marine Corps aviators were alleged to have sexually assaulted 90 persons.

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Craig Green

Fifty-seven players have scored hat-tricks in the Rugby World Cup since its inception in 1987. In rugby union, a player achieves a hat-trick by scoring three tries or drop goals in a single match. The first player to achieve the feat was Craig Green (pictured), who scored four tries in New Zealand's 74–13 victory over Fiji during the 1987 Rugby World Cup. His teammate John Gallagher also scored four tries in this match. Besides Green and Gallagher, fourteen players have scored more than three tries in a match; of these, Chris Latham and Josh Lewsey have scored five, while Marc Ellis scored six in New Zealand's 145–17 victory against Japan in 1995. Two of Ellis's teammates, Eric Rush and Jeff Wilson, also scored hat-tricks in this game. Four players have scored a hat-trick of drop goals: Jannie de Beer, Jonny Wilkinson, Juan Martín Hernández and Theuns Kotzé. Of these, De Beer scored the most in one match, with five drop goals in South Africa's 44–21 victory over England in the 1999 Rugby World Cup. (Full list...)

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The Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) is a small passerine bird found throughout the Palearctic and in Europe. Like other nuthatches, it is a short-tailed bird with a long bill, blue-gray upperparts and a black eye-stripe. It is a vocal bird with a repeated loud dwip call. There are more than 20 subspecies in three main groups; birds in the west of the range have orange-buff underparts and a white throat, those in Russia have whitish underparts, and those in the east have a similar appearance to European birds, but lack the white throat.

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