E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is an audiobook and soundtrack companion
album for the 1982 blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg.
Composed by John Williams, the album was narrated by Michael Jackson
(pictured), and distributed by MCA Records. The original song "Someone
in the Dark", sung by Jackson, bookends the album. The album was
released on November 15, 1982 – before Jackson's album Thriller was
released later that month – which led to a lawsuit by his label, Epic
Records, over the soundtrack being released first. The soundtrack album
was withdrawn, and the release of the single "Someone in the Dark" was
prohibited. The album also featured a poster of Jackson with an
animatronic model of E.T.; the image appeared on the cover of Ebony
magazine the following month. Despite its curtailed release, E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial reached number 37 on the Billboard 200 and
number 82 on the UK Albums Chart. Well-received critically, it won
Jackson a Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_%28album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1760:
The chapel of the newly constructed Castellania in Valletta,
Malta, was consecrated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellania_%28Valletta%29>
1864:
American Civil War: Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman
began his March to the Sea, inflicting significant damage to property
and infrastructure using scorched-earth tactics on his way from Atlanta
to Savannah, Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman>
1922:
Fountain of Time (detail pictured), in Chicago's Washington
Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the
United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Time>
2012:
Xi Jinping replaced Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the
Chinese Communist Party, succeeding as the paramount leader of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bric-a-brac:
1. Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little
value.
2. (by extension) Any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous
items; a hodgepodge, an olio.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bric-a-brac>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended.
There is no other solution.
--Aneurin Bevan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan>
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