Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Independent Women Part I" by Destiny's Child
In the UK:
"Touch Me" by Rui Da Silva featuring Cassandra
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Future of Drugs
(TIME Cover: January the 15th, 2001)
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Famous people born on the 18th of January: |
885 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
1947 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2001 |
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Kofi Annan
1938-
with United Nations, for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world
Ghana
U.N. Secretary-General
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 2001 |
A Beautiful Mind
directed by Ron Howard
with Russell Crowe (John Nash)
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Designed in 2001 |
The Pebbles sofa system
by Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune |
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