Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'm Your Angel" by R. Kellyand Céline Dion
In the UK:
"Believe" by Cher
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ritalin
(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1998)
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Famous people born on the 6th of December: |
1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1948 - Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver
1956 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (the Pixies)
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 |
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John A. Pople
1925-2004
for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry
United Kingdom
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1998 (USA) |
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$1.09 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1998 |
Shakespeare in Love
directed by John Madden
with Gwyneth Paltrow (Viola De Lesseps), Gwyneth Paltrow (Viola De Lesseps) and Judi Dench (Queen Elizabeth I)
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Designed in 1998 |
The Komed chair
by Marc Newson |
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