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Emma Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. She has won two
Screen Actors Guild Awards and has been
nominated for an
Academy Award , two
British Academy Film Awards , and two
Golden Globe Awards . Born and raised in
Scottsdale, Arizona , Stone was drawn to acting as a child, and her first role onstage was in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother, and made her film debut in
Superbad (2007). The 2010 teen comedy
Easy A , Stone's first starring role, earned her nominations for the
BAFTA Rising Star Award and for a Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress . This breakthrough role was followed by the commercially successful film
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and a supporting part in the critically acclaimed drama
The Help (2011). The actress received wider recognition for playing
Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film
The Amazing Spider-Man , and
its sequel in 2014. She was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of a recovering drug addict in the
black comedy
Birdman (2014). Stone won the
Volpi Cup for Best Actress for playing an aspiring actress in the musical
La La Land (2016). (
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1869 – In the
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1944 – The
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American nuclear arsenal .
1963 –
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed to head the
South Vietnamese government by the
military junta of General
Dương Văn Minh , five days after the latter
deposed and
assassinated President
Ngô Đình Diệm .
2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in
Ufton Nervet, Berkshire , England,
causing a derailment that killed seven people.
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Mõdriku Manor is an estate in Mõdriku,
Lääne-Viru County ,
Estonia . Attested since the 15th century, it has been used by numerous families and schools. The main building, shown here, was built at the end of the 18th century.
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