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Your Guide to the Fleetwood Mac Albums From Before They Were Fleetwood Mac

When Fleetwood Mac was released in 1975, its success was not immediate. Its path to becoming a colossal record fixed within the pop-music canon took the better part of a year, when, propelled by hits like “Rhiannon,” it would reach number one on the Billboard charts. The album spent 37 weeks floating around the top ten, was the second biggest album of 1976 (behind Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!), and the tenth biggest album of 1977.

Selena Gomez Was in Dire Straits for Months Before Kidney Transplant

Selena Gomez's kidneys were failing long before she received her transplant ... TMZ has learned. We've learned when Selena was in Chicago for The Weeknd's concert back in May she was rushed to the hospital because of kidney failure. Abel was right by her side. At that point Selena was already on a kidney transplant list. She took a break from touring last year to deal with her lupus diagnosis.

Absurdle: the machiavellian version of Wordle

Absurdle, the adversarial Wordle. Photograph: AbsurdleAbsurdle, the adversarial Wordle. Photograph: AbsurdleUS news‘Absurdle is an experiment to find the most difficult possible variant of Wordle,’ says its creator Wordle has taken over your timeline through pure force of pleasantness. Every day, an empty six-tiered grid appears in the world’s browser. We try to guess a secret five-letter word; with each entry the player learns if the letters they used appear in the solution, appear in the solution and are in the right place, or aren’t in the solution at all.

Argentina XI for Copa America semi final, Guido Rodrguez starts

Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni has made two changes from the team that started the 3-0 quarter final win. Lionel Scaloni has decided to go with Nicolas Tagliafico instead of Marcos Acuña as left back. There have been reports that Acuña is tired and Scaloni has instead opted with Tagliafico. Cristian Romero is still not fit as Germán Pezzella partners Nicolas Otamendi in the back line as Molina keeps his spot at right back.

Geoffrey Rush Gets Revenge on England

At the Toronto Film Festival, Geoffrey Rush is earning rave reviews and Oscar buzz for his turn in Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, as an eccentric Australian actor who befriends a stuttering King George VI (Colin Firth) and teaches him to speak with regal aplomb. Rush told us he took a certain satisfaction in instructing the English on how to speak, since an English director had once called his Australian wife “a common little colonial” and he himself has played his own part in a cinematic “revenge of the colonies.