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August 14th, 2005...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"We Belong Together"
by Mariah Carey

In the UK:
"You're Beautiful"
by James Blunt
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Being 13

(TIME Cover: August the 8th, 2005)

 Famous people born on the 14th of August:

1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)
1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
1688 - Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
1777 - Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
1926 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
1945 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director
1946 - Antonio Fargas, American actor
1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress

 The Nobel Peace Prize 2005


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


     
Oscar of the best picture in 2005

Crash
directed by Paul Haggis
with Matt Dillon (Officer Ryan)

Designed in 2005

The Kirk chair
by René Holten

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 979

 

 
 
 
     

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