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.

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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

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

salad dodger: (informal) An overweight person. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/salad_dodger

___________________________ 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