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Meghan Trainor

Meghan Trainor (born December 22, 1993) is an American singer-songwriter and talent
show judge. Her 2014 debut single "All About That Bass" reached number one on the
US Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold 11 million copies worldwide. She won the 2016
Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Trainor has released three studio albums with
Epic Records. In 2015, her pop and hip hop album, Title, included the top-10
singles "Lips Are Movin" and "Like I'm Gonna Lose You". It debuted at number one on
the US Billboard 200. The single "No" led her R&B album Thank You (2016); both the
song and the album reached number three on the respective charts. Trainor has had
voice roles in the animated films Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) and Playmobil:
The Movie (2019), and has served as a judge on the television talent shows The
Four: Battle for Stardom (2018) and The Voice UK (2020). She has won four ASCAP Pop
Music Awards and two Billboard Music Awards. (This article is part of a featured
topic: Overview of Meghan Trainor.)
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Fink (pictured) define words like "dictatorship", "surrealism", and "revolution"?
... that the London Theatre Studio was the first English drama school to teach
theatrical design as well as drama?
... that Thomas J. White estimated that he gave more than $75 million to
charity after resolving "to die as close to penniless as possible"?
... that the Royal Pioneer Corps could build a Twynham hut in four minutes?
... that In Praise of Forgetting makes the case against collective memory:
"whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to
the present"?
... that Charles Green was probably the youngest Australian Army infantry
battalion commander during World War II?
... that the Arlington Hotel, rebuilt after a devastating fire, was severely
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... that The European said of George Saxby Penfold's sermons that "they are
distinguished by a pleasing mediocrity"?
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Haydée

Haydée is an opéra comique by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed by
the Théâtre Royal de l'Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris on 28 December
1847. The libretto, based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée, was written by
Eugène Scribe. The plot is set during the 16th-century wars between the Republic of
Venice and the Ottoman Empire, and involves a naval commander with a guilty secret,
his ward, his slave girl, a handsome captain and a villainous spy. After much
confusion and intrigue, everything ends happily for the main protagonists. This
illustration shows Philippe Chaperon's set design for the second act of an 1891
Opéra-Comique performance of Haydée at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.

Set design and illustration credit: Philippe Chaperon; restored by Adam Cuerden
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