Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Candy Shop" by 50 Cent featuring Olivia
In the UK:
"(Is This The Way To) Amarillo" by Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: 2005 TIME 100, The
(TIME Cover: April the 18th, 2005)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of April: |
1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright [uncertain] (d. 1616)
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1791 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1928 - Shirley Temple, American actress
1936 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988)
1954 - Michael Moore, American filmmaker
1960 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991)
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2005 |
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Mohamed ElBaradei
1942-
with the IAEA, for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way
Egypt
Director General of IAEA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 2005 |
Crash
directed by Paul Haggis
with Matt Dillon (Officer Ryan)
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Designed in 2005 |
The Kirk chair
by René Holten |
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