Amy Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. She made her
feature film debut with a supporting part in the 1999 satire Drop Dead
Gorgeous, and her first major role was in Steven Spielberg's 2002 biopic
Catch Me If You Can. After a breakthrough role as a loquacious pregnant
woman in Junebug (2005), her first major success as a leading lady was
in the 2007 musical Enchanted, in which she played a cheerful Disney
Princess. She went on to play naive, optimistic women in a series of
films. She played stronger female parts to positive reviews in The
Fighter (2010) and The Master (2012), and in 2013 she began portraying
Lois Lane in superhero films set in the DC Extended Universe. She won
two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for playing a seductive con artist
in American Hustle (2013) and Margaret Keane in Big Eyes (2014). Further
acclaim came for playing a linguist in the science fiction film Arrival
(2016) and a self-harming reporter in the miniseries Sharp Objects
(2018).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Adams>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1710:
War of the Spanish Succession: The Spanish-Bourbon army
commanded by the Marquis de Bay was soundly defeated by a multinational
army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saragossa>
1909:
Pluto was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes
Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 15 years before it was
officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto>
1950:
Korean War: United Nations forces repelled an attempt by North
Korea to capture the city of Taegu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taegu>
1988:
Fires in the United States' Yellowstone National Park destroyed
more than 150,000 acres (610 km2), the single-worst day of the
conflagration.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fires_of_1988>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
repdigit:
(recreational mathematics) A number composed of repeated instances of
the same digit in a specified base.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/repdigit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his
mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought
and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a
limit.
--H. P. Lovecraft
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft>