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April 1st, 2006...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Temperature"
by Sean Paul

In the UK:
"So Sick"
by Ne-Yo
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Are Kids Too Wired For Their Own Good?

(TIME Cover: March the 27th, 2006)

 Famous people born on the 1st of April:

1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)
1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
1983 - Franck Ribery, French footballer

 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



Heath Ledger / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 996, March 23, 2006

 

 
 
 
     

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