| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Bad Day" by Daniel Powter
In the UK:
"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: The Ways of Opus Dei
(TIME Cover: April the 24th, 2006)
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Famous people born on the 30th of April: |
1662 - Queen Mary II of England
1721 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)
1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1946 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director
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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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