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"Just Like Heaven" is a song by the British alternative rock band The Cure. The group wrote most of the song during recording sessions in southern France in 1987. The lyrics were written by the band's frontman Robert Smith (pictured), who drew inspiration from a past trip to the sea shore with his future wife. Before Smith had completed the lyrics, an instrumental version of the song was used as the theme for the French television show Les Enfants du Rock. "Just Like Heaven" was the third single released from the band's 1987 album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, while Smith's memories of the trip formed the basis for the song's accompanying music video. The song became The Cure's first American hit and in 1988 reached number 40 on the Billboard charts. It has been highly praised by critics and covered by artists such as Dinosaur Jr. and Katie Melua. Smith has said he considers "Just Like Heaven" to be one of the band's strongest songs. (more...) Recently featured: Telopea speciosissima – The Author's Farce – 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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Tomas Tranströmer (pictured) becomes the 108th winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs dies at the age of 56. Dan Shechtman wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals. Russia restores the full satellite constellation of global satellite navigation system GLONASS. Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, and Brian Schmidt share the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that the universe's expansion is accelerating. More than 130 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, the region's deadliest attack since 2007. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
On this day...
October 7: Feast Day of St. Osyth; Yom Kippur begins at sunset (Judaism, 2011) 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano (pictured) was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Avalos. 1571 – A Western Christian coalition inflicted a significant defeat upon the Ottoman Navy near the Gulf of Corinth in the Battle of Lepanto, protecting the Italian peninsula from Ottoman invasion. 1868 – Cornell University in Ithaca, New York opened, with an initial enrollment of 412 students the next day. 1933 – Five French airline companies merged to form Air France. 2003 – Californians voted to recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger from a list of 135 candidates. More anniversaries: October 6 – October 7 – October 8 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now October 7, 2011 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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The glass house at Lal Bagh, a botanical garden in Bangalore, India. The garden was commissioned by the ruler of Mysore, Hyder Ali in 1760, and completed during the reign of his son Tipu Sultan. The glass house was modeled on London's Crystal Palace and constructed at the end of the 19th century.

Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

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