By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Gisele Caroline Bündchen (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒiˈzɛli ˈbĩtʃẽ], German: [ˈbʏntçn̩], born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian model and activist. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes top-earning models list in 2012. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999. Bündchen was a Victoria’s Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. She is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement created by a model lifting her knees high and kicking her feet to step. In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel. Bündchen has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers.
Bündchen was nominated for Choice Movie Female Breakout Star and for Choice Movie Villain at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards for her supporting role in Taxi (2004). She had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and was the executive producer of an educational environmental cartoon, Gisele & the Green Team, in 2010 to 2011. In 2016, she appeared in the Emmy Award-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, in the episode “Fueling the Fire”. Bündchen’s charitable endeavors include Save the Children, Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders. She has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program since 2009.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Apparently, the U.S. Treasury office gets this question quite often — it appears in its list of frequently asked questions. The pyramid is part of the Great Seal of the United States. The Great Seal was first used on the reverse of the one-dollar Federal Reserve note in 1935. According to the State Department, which is the official keeper of the Seal, the pyramid symbolizes strength and durability. The pyramid appears unfinished because it means that the United States will always “grow, improve, and build.” The eye is the “All-Seeing Eye,” suggesting the importance of divine guidance in favor of the American cause. Find out more about our currency at the Treasury Department.
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Petrarch (poet) –
- Sir Edmund Hillary (one of the first to summit Mt. Everest) –
- Natalie Wood (actress) –
- Carlos Santana (musician) –
- Josh Holloway (actor) –
- Elliott Yamin (singer) –
- Gisele Bundchen (model) –
Died
- Bruce Lee (actor & martial artist) –
- James Montgomery Doohan (actor, linguist) –
- Tammy Faye Messner –
Events
- Edward I of England took the last rebel stronghold in the Wars of Scottish Independence–
- Religious leader Anne Hutchinson was baptized–
- Colombia declared independence from Spain–
- British Columbia joined the Canadian Confederation–
- Connecticut state agricultural experiment station established–
- The U.S.S. Machias, first steel-hulled ship built in Maine, commissioned–
- Eleanor Annie Lamson was the first woman astronomer employed at the U.S. Naval Observatory–
- Legion of Merit established–
- The first International Special Olympics held, Chicago, Illinois–
- Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the Moon. He also placed the U.S. flag there.–
- Viking 1, U.S. robot spacecraft, landed on Mars–
- Hank Aaron hit his 755th home run–
- Mel Fisher’s crew found sunken Atocha off Florida coast, loaded with silver, gold, and emeralds–
Weather
- Snow and hail fell in Calais, Maine–
- 18.18 inches of rain fell in Edgerton, Missouri–
- In Washington, the Seattle-Tacoma area experienced temperatures of 100 degrees F–
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