Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112
In the UK:
"I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mormon Tabernacle
(TIME Cover: August the 4th, 1997)
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Famous people born on the 10th of August: |
1267 - King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
1909 - Leo Fender, American luthier (d. 1991)
1943 - Ronnie Spector, American singer (Ronettes)
1959 - Rosanna Arquette, American model and actress
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1961 - Jon Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
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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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