was the winner of the Miss World pageant of 2000. She has become one of
Bollywood's highest-paid actresses and one of the most popular
celebrities in India. She has won a National Film Award for Best Actress
and Filmfare Awards in four categories. She made her acting debut in the
Tamil film Thamizhan in 2002. The following year, she starred in The
Hero, her first Hindi film release, and followed it with the box-office
hit Andaaz. She subsequently earned critical recognition as a seductress
in the 2004 thriller Aitraaz. By 2006, Chopra had established herself
as a leading actress of Hindi cinema with starring roles in the highly
successful films Krrish and Don. After receiving mixed reviews for a
series of unsuccessful films, she received critical acclaim for her
portrayal of unconventional characters, including a troubled model in
the 2008 drama Fashion, a feisty Marathi woman in the 2009 caper
thriller Kaminey, a serial killer in the 2011 neo-noir 7 Khoon Maaf, and
an autistic woman in the 2012 romantic comedy Barfi! She released her
first music single "In My City" in 2012, and her second single "Exotic"
in 2013.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priyanka_Chopra>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1816:
The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha
archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha>
1880:
Construction of the Cologne Cathedral—Germany's most visited
landmark—was completed, 632 years after it had begun.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral>
1941:
After a secret meeting aboard warships, British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (both
pictured) issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post-
World War II world despite the fact that the United States had yet to
enter the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter>
1975:
The film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is still in
limited release today, making it the longest-running theatrical release
in film history, premiered in Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show>
2006:
The United Nations brokered a ceasefire in the Lebanon War
between Lebanon and Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
teenybopper:
A person, especially a female, in her early teens who follows popular
clothing fashions, music trends, and the like.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teenybopper>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Perfection, cosmically, was nothing but perfect Equanimity and
Harmony; and in human relations, nothing but perfect Love and Justice.
And Perfection began to glow before the eyes of the Western world like a
new star, whose light touched with glamour all things as they came forth
from Mystery, till to Mystery they were ready to return. This — I
thought is surely what the Western world has dimly been rediscovering.
There has crept into our minds once more the feeling that the Universe
is all of a piece, Equipoise supreme; and all things equally wonderful,
and mysterious, and valuable. We have begun, in fact, to have a
glimmering of the artist's creed, that nothing may we despise or neglect
— that everything is worth the doing well, the making fair — that
our God, Perfection, is implicit everywhere, and the revelation of Him
the business of our Art.
--John Galsworthy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy>
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