Brie Larson (born 1989) is an American actress and filmmaker who has received many awards and nominations. At age six, she became the youngest student admitted to a training program at the American Conservatory Theater. She began her acting career in 1998 with a comedy sketch in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Larson played supporting roles in the comedy films Hoot (2006), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and 21 Jump Street (2012), and appeared as a sardonic teenager in the television series United States of Tara (2009–2011). After her breakthrough with a leading role in Short Term 12 (2013), she continued to take on supporting parts in The Spectacular Now (2013) and Trainwreck (2015). For playing a kidnapping victim in the drama Room (2015), Larson won the Academy Award for Best Actress. After playing a photojournalist in the adventure film Kong: Skull Island (2017), she starred as the titular superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain Marvel (2019).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1702:

Anne became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding William III. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain

1919:

During the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul, exiling him to Malta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1919

1983:

Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Empire_speech

2017:

The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a storm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Window

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

muliebrity: 1. (literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood. 2. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood. 3. (physiology) The state of puberty in a female. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muliebrity

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

In a world populated by people who believe that through more and more information, paradise is attainable, the computer scientist is king. But I maintain that all of this is a monumental and dangerous waste of human talent and energy. Imagine what might be accomplished if this talent and energy were turned to philosophy, to theology, to the arts, to imaginative literature or to education? Who knows what we could learn from such people — perhaps why there are wars, and hunger, and homelessness and mental illness and anger.   --Neil Postman https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Postman