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Katrina Kaif (born 16 July 1983) is a British actress who works in Hindi-language films. Born in British Hong Kong, Kaif lived in several countries before moving to India, where she modelled but had difficulty finding film roles. Bollywood success came with the romantic comedies Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya? (2005) and Namastey London (2007). Kaif's performances in the thriller New York (2009) and the romantic comedy Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011) earned her nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She appeared in the action thrillers Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Dhoom 3 (2013), and Bang Bang! (2014), all of which rank among the highest-grossing Indian films. These were followed by a series of commercial failures, but her portrayal of an alcoholic actress in the romantic drama Zero (2018) earned her a Zee Cine Award for Best Supporting Actress. She participates in stage shows and is involved with her mother's charity, which works in furthering the cause of underprivileged children in India. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that in 2015, more than 300 complaints were made in a few days about proposed adjustments to a route of the Yan'an Road Medium Capacity Bus Transit System (bus pictured)?
- ... that Princess Rallou Karatza's theater in Bucharest, now upheld as a pioneering institution of modern Greek drama, was described in one Wallachian chronicle as a "temple" for devil-worship?
- ... that a demo version and a music video of Greece's 2017 Eurovision candidate song, "This Is Love", were leaked online?
- ... that Michele Beevors explores the complicated relationships between humans and the natural world through hand-knitted skeletons?
- ... that critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit have been sedated with ciprofol?
- ... that Fred Plump sued Alabama governor Bob Riley over an appointment to the county commission of Jefferson County?
- ... that the 2022 Optus data breach affected over a third of Australians?
- ... that Rawson Stovall became the first nationally syndicated video game journalist in the United States when he was only eleven years old?
In the news
- In the United States, actors in the SAG-AFTRA trade union (president Fran Drescher pictured) go on strike, joining writers in the Writers Guild of America strike.
- Flooding and landslides in northern India leave at least 100 people dead.
- Czech-French writer Milan Kundera dies at the age of 94.
- In the Netherlands, the governing coalition collapses and Prime Minister Mark Rutte announces his upcoming resignation.
On this day
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- 1232 – Muhammad ibn Yusuf (pictured), who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.
- 1790 – President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.
- 1931 – Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
- 1983 – A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.
- 2013 – At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.
- Philip Wodehouse (b. 1773)
- Agnes Weinrich (b. 1873)
- Évariste Kimba (b. 1926)
- Vecihi Hürkuş (d. 1969)
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A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size and may have amalgamated with others, and that falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual snowflakes differ in detail from one another, but may be categorized in eight broad classifications and at least eighty individual variants. The main constituent shapes for ice crystals, from which combinations may occur, are needle, column, plate, and rime. Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is due to diffuse reflection of the whole spectrum of light by the small crystal facets of the snowflakes. This macro photograph of a relatively large snowflake, 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) in width, was captured with a backlit glass background. Photograph credit: Alexey Kljatov
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