Tom Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor, whose accolades
include a British Academy Film Award and three Saturn Awards. His
career began at age nine, when he auditioned for a role in Billy Elliot
the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre; he played the title
role from 2008 to 2010. Holland made his film debut in the disaster
drama The Impossible (2012) as a teenage tourist trapped in a tsunami.
He achieved international recognition playing Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
in six Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films, beginning with
Captain America: Civil War (2016). The following year, Holland received
the BAFTA Rising Star Award and became the youngest actor to play a
title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The sequels Far
From Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021) each grossed
more than
$1 billion worldwide, and the latter became the highest-grossing film
of the year. Some publications have called him one of the most popular
actors of his generation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Holland>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1857:
The Revolution of the Ganhadores, the first general strike in
Brazil, began in Salvador, Bahia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_the_Ganhadores>
1868:
The Navajo and the U.S. government signed an agreement,
allowing those interned at Fort Sumner to return to their ancestral
lands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Bosque_Redondo>
1974:
In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich
introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts, commonly known as the
Heimlich maneuver, to treat choking victims.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Heimlich>
1988:
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was ratified,
banning all American and Soviet land-based missiles with a range of 500
to 5,500 km (310 to 3,420 mi).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
atelier:
A studio or workshop, especially for an artist, designer, or fashion
house.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atelier>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of
which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to
the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain
geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value
in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits. In so
doing, and in ignoring the fact that they are links in a continuous
chain of events, we also ignore the possibility that their possession
may later lead to definite disadvantages.
--Carl von Clausewitz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz>