Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 American science fiction action
film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the script with William
Wisher. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
(pictured), and Edward Furlong, it is the sequel to The Terminator
(1984). In the film, Skynet, a malevolent artificial intelligence, sends
a Terminator android (Patrick) back in time to 1995 to kill the young
John Connor (Furlong), the future leader of the human resistance. The
resistance sends back a less-advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger),
reprogrammed to protect Connor. The film had an estimated $94–102
million budget, making it the most expensive film made up to that time.
Industrial Light & Magic created a computer-generated main character,
the first in a blockbuster film. Terminator 2 was the highest-grossing
film of 1991 worldwide, at $520 million. Critics praised the visual
effects, action sequences, and cast, especially Patrick. The film won
Saturn, BAFTA, and Academy awards.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1903:
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political
Union, a militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the
United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union>
1911:
The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking
the beginning of the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the establishment
of the Republic of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuchang_Uprising>
1943:
World War II: The Kempeitai, the military police arm of the
Imperial Japanese Army, arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and
civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on
Singapore Harbour.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Tenth_incident>
2004:
Eight-year-old Huang Na was abducted and murdered; her body was
found three weeks later after a search across Singapore and Malaysia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Huang_Na>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
downcast:
1. Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as
a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
2. Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground.
3. Of a thing: directed downwards.
4. (figurative)
5. Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.
6. Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.
[...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/downcast>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are embarking on a long and difficult war. The war was forced
upon us by a murderous attack by Hamas.
--Benjamin Netanyahu
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu>
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