Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" by Puff Daddy featuring Ma$e
In the UK:
"I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ellen DeGeneres
(TIME Cover: April the 14th, 1997)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of April: |
1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)
1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997 |
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Stanley B. Prusiner
1942-
for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
USA
University of California School of Medicine - San Francisco, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1997 (USA) |
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$1.17 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1997 |
Titanic
directed by James Cameron
with Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater) and Gloria Stuart (Old Rose)
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Designed in 1997 |
The Vega chair
by Jasper Morrison |
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