Scarlett Johansson (born 1984) is an American actress and singer. Her
performance in Lost in Translation (2003) won her a BAFTA Award for Best
Actress. She was nominated for Golden Globe Awards for this film and for
playing a 17th-century housemaid in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), an
estranged teenager in the drama A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), and a
seductress in the psychological thriller Match Point (2005). Her albums
Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008) and Break Up (2009) charted on the
Billboard 200. In 2010, Johansson debuted on Broadway in a revival of A
View from the Bridge, which won her a Tony Award for Best Featured
Actress. Later that year, she began portraying Black Widow in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe. She voiced an intelligent computer operating system
in the 2013 comedy-drama Her, played an alien in the 2013 science
fiction film Under the Skin and a woman with psychokinetic abilities in
the 2014 science fiction action film Lucy. She was the highest-grossing
actress of 2016, and is also the highest-grossing actress of all time in
North America in nominal dollar terms.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S.
territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and allowing their settlers to
determine if slavery would be permitted.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act>
1914:
RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnelled ocean liner,
departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Aquitania>
1963:
Buddhist crisis: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination
was held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open
demonstration against President Ngô Đình Diệm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_crisis>
2008:
The Convention on Cluster Munitions, prohibiting the use,
transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs, was adopted.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
BANANA:
(informal, humorous, derogatory, often attributively) One who objects to
the building of any structure in their neighbourhood, especially in
public policy debate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/BANANA>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We must make a very precise distinction between the official and
consequently dictatorial prerogatives of society organized as a state,
and of the natural influence and action of the members of a non-
official, non-artificial society.
--Mikhail Bakunin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin>