Nicholas Hoult (born 1989) is an English actor. He has performed in
supporting roles in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles
in independent projects in the American and British film industries. He
made his screen debut at the age of six in the 1996 film Intimate
Relations. In 2002 he portrayed Marcus Brewer in the comedy-drama film
About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie
Award for Best Young Performer. He played Tony Stonem in the E4 teenage
drama series Skins (2007–2008), and earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award
nomination for the 2009 drama film A Single Man. Cast as the mutant Hank
McCoy in Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, he
continued the role in later instalments of the series. In 2013, Hoult
starred as a zombie in the romantic comedy Warm Bodies. He played Robert
Harley, Earl of Oxford, in the historical black comedy The Favourite
(2018) and the writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hoult>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1754:
The word serendipity, derived from the Persian fairy tale The
Three Princes of Serendip, was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter to a
friend.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole>
1933:
Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for
the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed
"Pakstan".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Declaration>
1964:
Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner
were killed when the aircraft was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany,
by a Soviet MiG-19.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_T-39_shootdown_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
presumptive:
1. Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
2. Often postpositive, as in heir presumptive: of an heir or heiress:
presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior
entitlement is born.
3. (embryology) Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but
is presumed to develop into a particular body part.
4. Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or
assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and
thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”)
5. (often law) Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable
basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/presumptive>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
--José Martí
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD>
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