Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Wanna Love You" by Akon featuring Snoop Dogg
In the UK:
"Patience" by Take That
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Famous people born on the 12th of December: |
1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (d. 1944)
1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico
1976 - Dan Hawkins, British guitarist (The Darkness)
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 |
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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
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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)
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Designed in 2006 |
The Zanotta veryround seat
by Louise Campbell |
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