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Angel Aquino (born February 7, 1973) is a Filipino actress and model. She is a recipient of various accolades, including six Star Awards, two Golden Screen Awards, and a Gawad Urian. Prominent in independent films, she has also worked on television shows of varying genres, and is known for her versatility and adaptability in portraying protagonists and villains. She began her career as a model, before presenting the lifestyle show F! (1999). She achieved wider recognition for starring in Crying Ladies (2003) and Donsol (2006), which were submitted by the Philippines for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Aquino drew praise as a leading actress playing villainous roles in the drama series Magkaribal (2010), Maria la del Barrio (2011), Apoy sa Dagat (2013), And I Love You So (2015), Till I Met You (2016), and Dirty Linen (2023). Beyond film, she promotes causes, including education, gender equality, and women's rights. (This article is part of a featured topic: Overview of Angel Aquino.)

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February 7

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1497 – Supporters of the Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of vanity items such as cosmetics, art and books in Florence, Italy.
1914 – Kid Auto Races at Venice, featuring the first appearance of comedy actor Charlie Chaplin's character the Tramp, was released.
1984 – During the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk (pictured).
2005 – President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on the redenomination of Azerbaijan's currency, with 1 new manat equal to 5000 old manats.
2014 – An inquiry report of the United Nations Human Rights Council found systematic and wide-ranging violations of human rights in North Korea.

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Nuclear device being lowered into its firing hole by a crane, with scientists in hard hats standing round

Greenpeace is a global campaigning network founded in Canada in 1971. Its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity", with campaigns focused on issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering and the anti-war and anti-nuclear movements. It uses direct action, advocacy, research and ecotage to achieve its goals. Greenpeace had its origins in protests staged in the late 1960s against Cannikin, an American underground nuclear weapon test in the tectonically unstable island of Amchitka in Alaska, amid concerns that the test would trigger earthquakes and a tsunami. This 1971 photograph shows the nuclear device that sparked the creation of Greenpeace being lowered into its firing hole for Cannikin.

Photograph credit: United States Atomic Energy Commission; retouched by Kylesenior and Bammesk

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