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Jonathan Agnew in 2006
Jonathan Agnew (born 4 April 1960) is an English cricket broadcaster and
former professional cricketer, nicknamed "Aggers". Agnew had a successful
first-class career as a fast bowler for Leicestershire from 1979 to 1990,
returning briefly in 1992. He won three Test caps in the mid-1980s for
England, and played in three One Day Internationals, his entire international
career lasting just under a year. In county cricket, Agnew's most successful
seasons came toward the end of his career. He was the second and third
leading wicket-taker in 1987 and 1988 respectively, achieving 100 wickets in
a season in the former. Overall, he took 666 first-class wickets at an average
of 29.25. He was named one of the five Cricketers of the Year by Wisden
Cricketers' Almanack in 1988. While still a player, Agnew began a career in
cricket journalism and commentary. Since his retirement as a player, he has
become a leading voice of cricket on radio, as the BBC radio cricket
correspondent and on Test Match Special. In 1991, he was part of an on-air
incident, known as the "leg over", which was blamed for a two-mile traffic jam
caused by drivers laughing; BBC 5 Live listeners voted it "the greatest
sporting commentary ever" in 2005. (Full article...)

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person lives by the divine secret and ancient value that "there is no one
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Rand's novel The Fountainhead?
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developed by psychologist Paul Ekman?
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April 4: Independence Day in Senegal (1960)

Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk
1796 French naturalist Georges Cuvier delivered a lecture at the National
Museum of Natural History on living and fossil remains of elephants and
related species, founding the science of paleontology.
1873 The Kennel Club, the oldest kennel club in the world, was founded in
the United Kingdom.
1949 Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO, an
organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its
member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any
external party.
1976 Norodom Sihanouk (pictured) abdicated from the role of leader of
Cambodia and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge.
2002 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty,
agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the decades-long
Angolan Civil War.
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Jaco Van Dormael
Jaco Van Dormael
The 1st Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Acadmie Andr
Delvaux, honored the best films of 2010 in Belgium and took place on
February 5, 2011, at the Square in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels,
beginning at 7:30 p.m. CET. During the ceremony, the Acadmie Andr
Delvaux presented Magritte Awards in twenty categories. The ceremony,
televised in Belgium by BeTV, was produced by Jos Bouquiaux and directed
by Vincent J. Gustin. Film director Jaco Van Dormael (pictured) presided over
the ceremony, while actress Helena Noguerra hosted the evening. The preshow ceremony was hosted by film director Fabrice Du Welz. Mr. Nobody won
six awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Van Dormael. Other
winners included Illegal, Private Lessons, and A Town Called Panic with two
awards each, and The Barons, The Boat Race, Looking for Eric, Paths of
Memory, Sleepless Night, and Soeur Sourire with one. (Full list...)

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Pinwheel Galaxy
The Pinwheel Galaxy is a face-on spiral galaxy located 21 million light-years
away in the constellation Ursa Major. It was first discovered by Pierre Mchain
on March 27, 1781, and communicated to Charles Messier, who verified its
position for inclusion in the Messier Catalogue as one of its final entries. This
image, released on February 28, 2006, is composed of 51 individual
exposures, as well as some extra ground-based photos. At the time of its
release, it was the largest and most detailed image of a galaxy by the Hubble
Space Telescope.

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