Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas
In the UK:
"Lift Me Up" by Geri Halliwell
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Beyond 2000
(TIME Cover: November the 8th, 1999)
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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 Physiology or Medicine 1999 |
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Günter Blobel
1936-
for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
USA
Rockefeller University - New York, NY, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1999 (USA) |
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$1.08 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1999 |
American Beauty
directed by Sam Mendes
with Kevin Spacey (Lester Burnham) and Annette Bening (Carolyn Burnham)
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Designed in 1999 |
The Toy chair
by Philippe Starck |
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