Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. Actress Emma Thompson (pictured) wrote the script and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne; actors Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman appear as their respective suitors. The story follows two English sisters from a wealthy family (wealthier in the film than the book) who become destitute and seek financial security through marriage. The film was released in December 1995 in the US and two months later in Britain. A commercial success, it garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews upon release and received many accolades, including three awards and eleven nominations at the 1995 British Academy Film Awards. It earned seven Academy Awards nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Actress (for Thompson). The actress won for Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the only person to have received Academy Awards for both acting and screenwriting. Sense and Sensibility contributed to a resurgence in popularity for Austen's works, and has led to many more productions in similar genres. It persists in being recognised as one of the best Austen adaptations of all time.

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1475:

Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Moldavian forces under Stephen the Great defeated an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia, near Vaslui in present-day Romania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vaslui

1776:

Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)

1929:

The Adventures of Tintin, a series of popular comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé, first appeared in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin

1985:

Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collector's item. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

2004:

Helge Fossmo, the village priest of Knutby, Sweden, orchestrated the murders of his wife and his neighbor, a crime that shocked the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knutby_murder

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apotropaic: Intended to ward off evil. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apotropaic

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The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.   --Robinson Jeffers https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers