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From today's featured article  Christian Bale, who played Batman The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Jonathan. It is based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, played by Christian Bale (pictured), and is the second installment in The Dark Knight Trilogy and the sequel to Batman Begins (2005). In the film, Batman, police lieutenant Jim Gordon, and district attorney Harvey Dent ally to dismantle organized crime in Gotham City. They are derailed by the Joker, an anarchistic mastermind played by Heath Ledger. Ledger's posthumous awards included Academy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actor. The ensemble cast also included Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Morgan Freeman. The film was the fourth-highest-grossing film ever at the time. It has been assessed as one of the best films ever made. The Library of Congress selected it for the National Film Registry in 2020. A sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, concluded the trilogy in 2012. (Full article...)

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Ongoing:  Recent deaths&#58;   On this day July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789); Festino di Santa Rosalia begins in Palermo, Italy  Attack on Joseph Priestley's home <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"> <ul><li>Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester ( d. 1262)</li><li>Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld ( b. 1837)</li><li>Mihran Kassabian ( d. 1910)</li><li>Maryam Mirzakhani ( d. 2017)</li></ul> More anniversaries: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <h2 id="mp-tfl-h2" class="mp-h2">From today's featured list <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 200px;"> Developers at Naughty Dog accepting Game of the Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards. 2013 action-adventure game The Last of Us garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its story, sound and music, graphical and artistic design, and the performances. Players assume control of Joel (Troy Baker), escorting the young Ellie (Ashley Johnson) across a post-apocalyptic United States. At the 10th British Academy Video Games Awards, The Last of Us received ten nominations and went on to win five awards: Best Game, Action & Adventure, Audio Achievement, Performer, and Story. The game led the 17th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards with thirteen nominations and ten awards, including Game of the Year. At the 14th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, it won Game of the Year, Best Design, and Best Narrative. The game received seven nominations at the Spike VGX, with Baker winning the award for Best Voice Actor and Johnson winning the award for Best Voice Actress. (Full list...) Recently featured: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:
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