December 22nd, 2006

December 22nd, 2006...

Today is Friday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Irreplaceable" by Beyoncé In the UK: "Patience" by Take That

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Why We Worry About the Wrong Things

(TIME Cover: December the 4th, 2006)

Famous people born on the 22nd of December:

1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)
1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer and actress
1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress, famous for her role in The Blair Witch Project

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

Borat / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 1014, November 30, 2006

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