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16 hours ago · Wins. 109. Nominations. 330. Note. American–born Australian actress and producer Nicole Kidman has been honored with numerous accolades throughout her career. Among them, she has won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award and a BAFTA Award. She is the first Australian to win the ...
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16 hours ago · Renée Kathleen Zellweger ( / rəˈneɪ ˈzɛlwɛɡər /; born April 25, 1969) is an American actress. The recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, she was one of the world's highest-paid actresses by 2007. Born and raised in Texas, Zellweger studied English ...
- Actress
- Renée Kathleen Zellweger, April 25, 1969 (age 54), Katy, Texas, U.S.
- 1992–present
16 hours ago · Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Signature. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. [2] Babbage is considered by some to be ...
- Mathematics, engineering, political economy, computer science
16 hours ago · Frank Vincent Zappa (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
16 hours ago · Peter John Sallis OBE (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, known for his work on British television. He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning Wallace and Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until the final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes.
16 hours ago · Ezra Pound. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem ...
16 hours ago · 22 October: Big Ben is first given its nickname (by association with Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover) by the London Evening Standard. 9 November: The last Lord Mayor's Show in which barges on the Thames are used takes place. 13 November: Big Ben, as originally cast in Stockton-on-Tees, is first tested in Westminster.
