Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Wild, Wild West" by The Escape Club
In the UK:
"Orinoco Flow" by Enya
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Enrique Camarena
(TIME Cover: November the 7th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 13th of November: |
1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
1504 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
1760 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (d. 1820)
1848 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
1938 - Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer
1978 - Nikolai Fraiture Bass player for NYC based band The Strokes
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 |
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Naguib Mahfouz
1911-2006
who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind
Egypt
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1988 (USA) |
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$0.89 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1988 |
Rain Man
directed by Barry Levinson
with Dustin Hoffman (Raymond Babbitt)
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Designed in 1988 |
The Paris chair
by André Dubreuil |
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