Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"London Bridge" by Fergie
In the UK:
"Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Who Needs Harvard?
(TIME Cover: August the 21st, 2006)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of August: |
686 - Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
1754 - King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
1912 - Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
1923 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1932 - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1946 - Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan
1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
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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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