Priyanka Chopra (born 1982) is an Indian film actress and singer, and was the winner of the Miss World pageant of 2000. She has become one of Bollywood's highest-paid actresses and one of the most popular celebrities in India. She has won a National Film Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Awards in four categories. She made her acting debut in the Tamil film Thamizhan in 2002. The following year, she starred in The Hero, her first Hindi film release, and followed it with the box-office hit Andaaz. She subsequently earned critical recognition as a seductress in the 2004 thriller Aitraaz. By 2006, Chopra had established herself as a leading actress of Hindi cinema with starring roles in the highly successful films Krrish and Don. After receiving mixed reviews for a series of unsuccessful films, she received critical acclaim for her portrayal of unconventional characters, including a troubled model in the 2008 drama Fashion, a feisty Marathi woman in the 2009 caper thriller Kaminey, a serial killer in the 2011 neo-noir 7 Khoon Maaf, and an autistic woman in the 2012 romantic comedy Barfi! She released her first music single "In My City" in 2012, and her second single "Exotic" in 2013.
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1816:
The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha
1880:
Construction of the Cologne Cathedral—Germany's most visited landmark—was completed, 632 years after it had begun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral
1941:
After a secret meeting aboard warships, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (both pictured) issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post- World War II world despite the fact that the United States had yet to enter the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter
1975:
The film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is still in limited release today, making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history, premiered in Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show
2006:
The United Nations brokered a ceasefire in the Lebanon War between Lebanon and Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
teenybopper: A person, especially a female, in her early teens who follows popular clothing fashions, music trends, and the like. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teenybopper
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Perfection, cosmically, was nothing but perfect Equanimity and Harmony; and in human relations, nothing but perfect Love and Justice. And Perfection began to glow before the eyes of the Western world like a new star, whose light touched with glamour all things as they came forth from Mystery, till to Mystery they were ready to return. This — I thought is surely what the Western world has dimly been rediscovering. There has crept into our minds once more the feeling that the Universe is all of a piece, Equipoise supreme; and all things equally wonderful, and mysterious, and valuable. We have begun, in fact, to have a glimmering of the artist's creed, that nothing may we despise or neglect — that everything is worth the doing well, the making fair — that our God, Perfection, is implicit everywhere, and the revelation of Him the business of our Art. --John Galsworthy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy