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In the USA:
"Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland
In the UK:
"Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean
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Famous people born on the 9th of July: |
1249 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)
1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, 12th & 20th United States Secretary of Defense
1943 - John Casper, astronaut
1956 - Tom Hanks, American actor
1964 - Courtney Love, American musician
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer (ofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic)
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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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