Angelina Jolie (born 1975) is an American actress, film director, and
screenwriter. She has received an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress (for her performance in the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted), two
Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named
Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie
promotes humanitarian causes as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill
Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She
has often been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman. Jolie made
her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin'
to Get Out (1982). Her first leading role in a major film was in the
cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She achieved wide fame after her
portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
(2001), and received critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas
A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008). She made her directorial
debut with the wartime drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now
lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship notable for fervent media
attention.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1269:
Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten livres of silver on
Jews found in public without a yellow badge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_badge>
1816:
The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-
trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Seven_Oaks>
1953:
Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who
passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg>
1991:
The last Red Army soldiers left Hungary, ending the Soviet
occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Hungary>
2009:
The War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation
Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on
Taliban positions in Southern Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Panther%27s_Claw>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
salad dodger:
(informal) An overweight person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/salad_dodger>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Is it not proven beyond all dispute that there is no limit to the
enormities which men will commit when they are once persuaded that they
are keepers of other men's consciences? To spread religion by any means,
and to crush heresy by all means is the practical inference from the
doctrine that one man may control another's religion. Given the duty of
a state to foster some one form of faith, and by the sure inductions of
our nature slowly but certainly persecution will occur. To prevent for
ever the possibility of Papists roasting Protestants, Anglicans hanging
Romish priests, and Puritans flogging Quakers, let every form of state-
churchism be utterly abolished, and the remembrance of the long curse
which it has cast upon the world be blotted out for ever.
--Charles Spurgeon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon>