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:
"Men In Black" by Will Smith
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Death of Privacy
(TIME Cover: August the 25th, 1997)
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Famous people born on the 28th of August: |
1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1582 (O.S.) - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1828 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910)
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1942 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1943 - David Soul, American actor
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Prince of Denmark
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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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