Shaylee Mansfield (born 2009) is an American actress and former
YouTuber. Mansfield, who is deaf, was born in Burbank, California, and
first gained recognition by making videos in which she tells Christmas
stories in American Sign Language. In 2016, Mansfield appeared in an
advertisement by Disney Parks, in which she met Minnie Mouse, who was
learning sign language at Walt Disney World. The video quickly went
viral and became one of Disney's most-watched advertisements. In 2019,
Mansfield made her acting debut in Disney's Noelle. The following year,
her request for automatic captioning on Instagram drew attention from
several media publications and became popular on Twitter. She received
further recognition for her roles in the films Feel the Beat (2020) and
13 Minutes (2021). In 2022, for her signed performance on the animated
series Madagascar: A Little Wild, Mansfield was credited alongside the
voice actors.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaylee_Mansfield>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1642:
First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first
engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the
Parliamentarians, ended in a Royalist victory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Powick_Bridge>
1884:
The French steamship Arctique ran aground on the northern coast
of Cape Virgenes in Argentina; gold was discovered during the rescue
effort, triggering the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_del_Fuego_gold_rush>
1920:
The Louisiana hurricane dissipated over Kansas after forcing
around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Louisiana_hurricane>
2010:
Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the U.S.
state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be
executed by lethal injection.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Lewis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
motley crew:
A group of people of mixed background, especially one with a common
goal.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motley_crew>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I can feel a new tomorrow coming on And I don't know why I have
to make a song Everybody talks about a new world in the morning New
world in the morning takes so long.
--Roger Whittaker
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Whittaker>