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From today's featured article Angelina Jolie (born 1975) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She has received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (for her performance in the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted), two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She has often been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and received critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008). She made her directorial debut with the wartime drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011). Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship notable for fervent media attention. (Full article...) Recently featured: Midshipman – Lynn Hill – Aylesbury duck Did you know... From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that archaeological excavations conducted in May 2013 at the Sobibór Museum (monument pictured) unearthed an escape tunnel made by Holocaust victims in the Sobibór extermination camp? ... that the Indian Navy's Chennai is a Kolkata class destroyer being built in Mumbai? ... that World War II Luftwaffe ace Ulrich Steinhilper was credited by later employer IBM with the concept of word processing? ... that Norton Juxta Twycross's former rectory has been a zoo since the 1960s? ... that Scipione Cobelluzzi was chief archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives from 17 February 1618 until his death on 29 June 1626? ... that passages of Bach's Nur jedem das Seine have been compared to the descent into earth in Das Rheingold and the love duet of L'incoronazione di Poppea?

In the news Flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in India kill more than 130 people and trap thousands. The 39th G8 summit concludes with agreements on the Syrian civil war, tax evasion, and greater transparency. Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas (pictured) resigns amidst accusations of corruption. In golf, Justin Rose wins the US Open. The Quaid-e-Azam Residency, a heritage site in Ziarat, Pakistan, is badly damaged in an attack by Balochistan Liberation Army militants. Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran. The United States Supreme Court unanimously rules that naturally occurring DNA sequences cannot be patented. On this day... June 19 1269 – Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten livres of silver on Jews found in public without a yellow badge. 1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union. 1991 – The last Red Army soldiers left Hungary, ending the Soviet occupation. 2009 – The War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in Southern Afghanistan. More anniversaries: June 18 – June 19 – June 20 It is now June 19, 2013 (UTC) – Reload this page

Today's featured picture A woman using a Hollerith pantograph, a machine developed by Herman Hollerith for the punching of cards, providing data which could then be processed. Such tools were used in the 1890 United States Census, the first time the country's census was tabulated by machine. Picture: Unknown; restoration: Mmxx Recently featured: Black-browed Albatross – US Postal Currency – Clothes iron

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