Jennifer Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. After
starring in the television series The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009)
and making her film debut in Garden Party (2008), she had her
breakthrough with Winter's Bone in 2010. She took over the role of
Mystique in the X-Men film series in 2011, and starred as Katniss
Everdeen in the top-grossing Hunger Games films (2012–2015). She
became the second-youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best
Actress for playing a depressed widow in Silver Linings Playbook (2012).
She won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing
a troubled wife in American Hustle (2013), and received Golden Globe
Awards for both of these films and for playing an inventor in the biopic
Joy (2015). Lawrence's films have grossed in excess of $5.5 billion
globally, and she has been the world's highest-paid actress since 2015.
Her many awards and honors include appearances in Time's 100 most
influential people in the world in 2013 and the Forbes Celebrity 100 in
2014 and 2016. She is a vocal advocate of feminism and gender equality.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1038:
Upon the death of his uncle Stephen I, Peter became the second
King of Hungary.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter,_King_of_Hungary>
1812:
War of 1812: Potawatomi warriors destroyed the United States
Army's Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, and captured the
survivors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Dearborn>
1942:
World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta, as part of an
operation to deliver much-needed supplies during the Siege of Malta.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pedestal>
1963:
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of
Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_Glorieuses_(1963)>
1977:
The Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio received a strong,
apparently extraterrestrial radio signal, which became known as the
"Wow! signal" (printout pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pomerium:
(historical, Roman Empire) The tract of land denoting the formal, sacral
ambit of a Roman city.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pomerium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Whatever plans we may make, we shall find quite useless when the
time for action comes. Revolutions are always full of surprises, and
whoever thinks he can play chess with a revolution will soon find how
terrible is the grasp of God and how insignificant the human reason
before the whirlwind of His breath. That man only is likely to dominate
the chances of a Revolution, who makes no plans but preserves his heart
pure for the will of God to declare itself. The great rule of life is to
have no schemes but one unalterable purpose. If the will is fixed on the
purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest
the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the
unexpected.
--Sri Aurobindo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo>
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