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January 26th, 2006...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Grillz"
by Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali and Gipp

In the UK:
"That's My Goal"
by Shayne Ward
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: American Rebel

(TIME Cover: January the 23rd, 2006)

 Famous people born on the 26th of January:

1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
1918 - Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
1925 - Paul Newman, American actor
1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)
1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born musicia

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006


Orhan Pamuk
1952-

who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures

Turkey



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 2006

The Departed
directed by Martin Scorsese
with Matt Damon (Colin Sullivan), Leonardo DiCaprio (Billy Costigan), Jack Nicholson (Frank Costello)

Designed in 2006

The Zanotta veryround seat
by Louise Campbell

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Jay-Z / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 989, December 15, 2005

 

 
 
 
     

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