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Britney Spears: where to start in her back catalogue

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Our Listeners Digest series continues with the bold and experimental stylings of the pop princess turned showstopping star The album to start with Blackout (2007) Britney Spears sang on the title track of her 2008 album, Circus. The ones that entertain and the ones that observe / Well, baby, Im a put-on-a-show kinda girl. Quite right: her DNA was encoded with the drive to perform, and each successive album Blackout was her fifth took putting on a show to another level, as she grew away from chaste small-town beginnings toward…

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9 of the 22 victims of the Nova Scotia rampage died in fires set by the gunman, investigators say

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(CNN)Newly released details about a murder rampage that spanned 16 crime scenes are as puzzling as they are disturbing. Police believe Gabriel Wortman, 51, acted alone in the shootings and arsons. He posed as a police officer, wearing an RCMP uniform and driving what looked like a police cruiser during a lengthy manhunt across the Canadian province,police said. Wortman died after a confrontation with authorities. Now, Canadian police say they’ve expanded their investigation into the US as they continue to speak to witnesses and search for a motive. The RCMP…

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Big commercial labs given priority for coronavirus testing equipment by feds

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(CNN)President Donald Trump said Monday that he is confident the US is conducting enough coronavirus testing to begin rebooting the economy, declaring at the White House press briefing that “testing is not going to be a problem at all.” More than three months after the US confirmed its first coronavirus case, hospital and academic labs around the country said they’re still scrambling to find key supplies, from swabs to collect patient samples to protective gear for the medical workers taking the samples to the sensitive chemical reagents necessary to process…

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A 22m chair? Eileen Gray, the design genius who scared the pants off Corbusier

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Her ravishing interiors shocked Paris, thrilled the avant-garde and gave the world its most expensive chair. But the fast-living aristocrat wasnt just overlooked Le Corbusier actually vandalised her work naked A room fit only for nightmares and insomnia. This was the response of one critic to Eileen Grays radical scheme for a bedroom in 1923, installed at the 14th Salon de la Socit des Artistes Dcorateurs in Paris. The Irish designers daring De Stijl movement, who saw her installation pictured in a journal. I am highly interested and should like…

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These 35 Illustrations Hilariously Sum Up The Struggles Of Adult Life (New Pics)

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Clare Kayden Hines is a writer and illustrator who shares spot-on observations, universal truths, relatable struggles, and mundane, sometimes ridiculous moments from our daily lives in the form of funny and entertaining comics. Having struggled with anxiety for years, Hines openly expresses her experiences and battles through her art, and many people around the world can deeply relate to it. reply View More Replies… Unfollow 12 hours ago I may not be an adult but I get anxiety sometimes reply View More Replies… Unfollow 12 hours ago So cheesy “I…

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