Ethan Hawke (born 1970) is an American actor, author and filmmaker whose career on screen and stage has spanned over four decades. Known for his versatile range of roles—often in art films—and collaborations with director Richard Linklater, he made his film debut in Explorers (1985) and gained fame with Dead Poets Society (1989), Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997) and Great Expectations (1998). He was nominated for Academy Awards for his roles in Training Day (2001), Boyhood (2014) and Blue Moon (2025), as well as for screenwriting two films from the Before trilogy (1995–2013), in which he also starred. Hawke saw commercial success with Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), The Magnificent Seven (2016) and the Black Phone films (2021–2025). He made his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and was nominated for a Tony Award in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. Hawke has authored five books and has four children from his two marriages. (Full article...).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1839:

An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839_Ava_earthquake

1919:

Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasci_Italiani_di_Combattimento

1991:

The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Civil_War

2021:

A container ship ran aground and obstructed the Suez Canal for six days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction

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cirrus: 1. (biology) 2. (botany) Synonym of tendril (“a thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support”). 3. (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage, such as a barbel (“whisker- like sensory organ around the mouth”) of some fish, a cilium of some species of protists, or a foot of some crustaceans of the infraclass Cirripedia. 4. (meteorology, often attributive) A principal high-level type of cloud, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands. 5. About Word of the Day 6. Nominate a word 7. Leave feedback https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cirrus

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue. Both systems are developing into managerial societies, their inhabitants well fed, well clad, having their wishes satisfied, and not having wishes that cannot be satisfied. Men are increasingly automatons, who make machines which act like men and produce men who act like machines; their reason deteriorates while their intelligence rises, thus creating the dangerous situation of equipping man with the greatest material power without the wisdom to use it.   --The Sane Society https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Sane_Society