Liza Soberano (born January 4, 1998) is an American and Filipino actress. Her accolades include a FAMAS Award, a Star Award, and six Box Office Entertainment Awards. She began her career as a model, before her television debut in the fantasy anthology series Wansapanataym (2011). She achieved wider recognition for starring in the second season of Got to Believe (2014) and Forevermore (2014), the latter of which marked the first of her collaborations with actor Enrique Gil. Soberano found commercial successes in several romantic films, winning the Box Office Entertainment Award for Box Office Queen for My Ex and Whys (2017). Attempting to shed her image as an on-screen couple with Gil, she sought roles in other genres, before pursuing an acting career in Hollywood with Lisa Frankenstein (2024). Soberano has been described by media publications as one of the most beautiful Filipino actresses of her generation. She is vocal about gender equality, women's rights, and mental health.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1970:

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake occurred in Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Tonghai_earthquake

1977:

The English punk-rock band Sex Pistols' lewd and disruptive behaviour at Heathrow Airport prompted the record label EMI to end their contract. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols

2010:

The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure, officially opened in Dubai. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

2020:

Sembawang Hot Spring Park in Singapore reopened after being redeveloped by the National Parks Board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sembawang_Hot_Spring_Park

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

holy-water sprinkle: 1. (Christianity) Synonym of aspergillum (“an implement, in the form of a brush or of a rod with a perforated container, for sprinkling holy water”) 2. (by extension, weaponry, historical) A 16th-century weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, used mainly in England; a morning star. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/holy-water_sprinkle

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Once upon a time Phaethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals.   --Plato https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Plato