From today's featured articleMichelle Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. Her accolades include two Golden Globe Awards, and she has been nominated for four Academy Awards and one Tony Award. She made her feature film debut in Lassie (1994), and starred in the television teen drama series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003). She earned her first Academy Award nomination playing the wife of a gay man in Brokeback Mountain (2005). Williams played troubled characters in the independent dramas Wendy and Lucy (2008), Blue Valentine (2010), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). For portraying Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon, she won two Golden Globe Awards. Her highest-grossing releases came with the thriller Shutter Island (2010), the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), and the superhero film Venom (2018). She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the role of a sexually abused woman in Blackbird. (Full article...)
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This historical depiction of the coat of arms of California was illustrated by American engraver Henry Mitchell in State Arms of the Union, published in 1876 by Louis Prang. A state in the Pacific region of the U.S., California was admitted into the Union on September 9, 1850. The escutcheon depicts the goddess Minerva, representing the political birth of the state, seated underneath the state motto Eureka. At her feet crouches a grizzly bear, feeding upon bunches of grapes that, with the plough and sheaf of wheat on the right, are emblematic of the state's bounty. On the left, a miner at work, with a rocker and bowl at his side, illustrates the golden wealth of the land, while the snow-clad peaks of the Sierra Nevada and shipping on the Sacramento River make up the background. A similar design appears on the current Great Seal of California. Illustration credit: Henry Mitchell; restored by Andrew Shiva
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