Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"U Remind Me" by Usher
In the UK:
"Eternity/The Road To Mandalay" by Robbie Williams
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Sharks
(TIME Cover: July the 30th, 2001)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of August: |
1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
1960 - Neal Morse, American singer, guitarist and keyboardist (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic)
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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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