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Today's featured article Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress. She began her career at the age of five, making her onscreen debut in the sitcom Crash & Bernstein (2012–2014). In 2017, she starred as a child prodigy in the drama film Gifted, a breakthrough for which she received a nomination for a Critics' Choice Movie Award. Grace subsequently appeared in the films I, Tonya (2017), Troop Zero (2019), and Captain Marvel (2019). During this time, she appeared in several horror projects, including The Bad Seed (2018), The Haunting of Hill House (2018), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). For playing an abused teenager in The Handmaid's Tale (2021–2022), Grace was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She garnered further recognition for her appearances in the supernatural comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), and portrayed Jan Broberg in the miniseries A Friend of the Family (2022). (Full article...) Recently featured: Etika Cyclone Taylor Capri-Sun In the news Iberian lynx Coordinated attacks in Dagestan, Russia, leave 28 people dead. The Iberian lynx (pictured) is reclassified from endangered to vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Thailand's parliament passes a bill to recognise same-sex marriage. American baseball player Willie Mays dies at the age of 93. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Ashin Munindabhivamsa Taylor Wily Keith Locke Jodie Devos James K. Irving Gerhard Klingenberg Today's featured picture The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam locomotive at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals. The short film draws on many sources, including a robust existing tradition of Western films, recent European innovations in film technique, the play of the same name by Scott Marble, the popularity of train-themed films, and possibly real-life incidents involving outlaws such as Butch Cassidy. Film credit: Edwin S. Porter Recently featured: Sedge warbler Long Tack Sam Pinguicula vulgaris

Did you know... Mel Carnahan ... that Mel Carnahan (pictured) was the first person to be elected to the United States Senate posthumously? ... that Korean brick toys, colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles? ... that stage director and scenic designer Daniela Kerck crafted a new ending to Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele? ... that the Oxtongue River, historically a canoe route for indigenous people, is still used for recreational canoeing? ... that Native American studies professor Joely Proudfit has received tenure from three different universities? ... that Metro Boomin unknowingly sampled a song created with generative artificial intelligence in the diss track "BBL Drizzy"? ... that young Erismatopterus formed shoals, likely as a way to avoid predators? ... that Fatimid vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi helped empower Caliph al-Amir, only to be later imprisoned and executed by him? ... that due to legal and union restrictions, the production team for the Doctor Who episode "Space Babies" occasionally had to replace real babies with props? On this day... June 25: Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2024), Michael Jackson in 1993 1658 – Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began. 1910 – The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes". 1944 – World War II: U.S. Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg. 1950 – The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea. 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson (pictured) died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body. Giovanni Battista Riccioli (d. 1671) Eloísa Díaz (b. 1866) George Michael (b. 1963) Farrah Fawcett (d. 2009) More anniversaries: June 24 June 25 June 26

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