Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Check on It" by Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug
In the UK:
"Nelly, Jagged Edge & Avery Storm" by Notorious BIG featuring Diddy,
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Famous people born on the 13th of February: |
1599 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
1933 - Kim Novak, American actress
1939 - Beate Klarsfeld, German Holocaust investigator/Nazi hunter
1956 - Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
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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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