Only 27 days are left for Christmas! I have started my preparing for the festive season. First of all I will buy the gifts for everyone and then will concentrate on decoration materials. Meanwhile I decided to make some decorations of my blog by this funky Christmas Countdown widget. Check out this perfect virtual Christmas tree and Countdown.

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Name: Scarlett Johansson

Birthday: November 21, 1984

Place Of Birth: New York

Relationship status: Single

Star Sign: Scorpio

Claim to fame: Scarlett Johansson, is the 23 year old popular American actress who has won rave reviews for her acting abilities and have been nominated for Golden Globe awards number of times. Johnson made her acting debut in North.when she was a kid. She rose to stardom and got critical acclaim after her performances in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and 2001's Ghost World. She won the "Upstream Prize" for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in 2003's Lost in Translation. The same year, she was nominated for two Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes, one for drama (Girl with a Pearl Earring) and one for comedy (Lost in Translation). She was also nominated for Best Actress for both films at the BAFTAs, and won Best Actress for Lost in Translation. Later she got the nominations in golden globe for the films A Love Song for Bobby Long and woody Allen directed drama Match Point. Her other films are Home Alone 3, In Good Company,The Perfect Score, The Island and many more. She had done prestigious ad campaigns like Calvin Klein perfume, Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal.

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Name: Troy Kenneth Aikman

Birthday: November 21, 1966

Place Of Birth: West Covina, California

Star Sign: Scorpio

Claim to fame: Troy Kenneth Aikman is a former American football quarterback for Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. In 1989 , he was selected in the cowboys team.Even though he had a disastrous start, he improved in every season .In 1992 Aikman set career highs in completions (302), passing yards (3,445) and touchdown passes (23). He led the Cowboys to a team record 13 regular season victories and a return to the Super Bowl, winning Super Bowl XXVII at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena against the Buffalo Bills. Aikman completed 22-of-30 passes for 273 yards with 4 TDs as Dallas defeated Buffalo, 52-17. He was named Super Bowl MVP.He had a very good season next year as Cowboys defeated the Bills and won Super Bowl XXVIII for the second time consecutively.He had a shining career till he retired in 2001. After retirement, Aikman joined Fox's NFC telecasts as a color commentator for the 2001 season. Aikman received an Emmy Award nomination for his television work in 2004,





Name: Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Birthday: November 21, 1965

Place Of Birth: Reykjavík.

Star Sign: Scorpio

Claim to fame: Björk Guðmundsdóttir, better known as just Björk(meaning Birtch tree) is a famous an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, actress and music producer. she is extremely versatile who has shown her interest in many kind of music like pop, alternative rock, jazz, ambient music, electronica, and folk and has been #8 on MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music". She first had a a taste of fame after she joined the band Sugarcubes. Their albums were hits in UK. After split of sugarcubes , Björk first solo album Debut was released in 93 which was declared a platinum after a year. Her other popular albums are Post , Telegram,Vespertine, Family Tree, Live Box, Medúlla, Volta and many more. She has done music for films and has even acted in few films. She received the received the Best Actress award for her role in Dancer in the Dark in Cannes film festival.



Name: Goldie Hawn

Birthday: November 21, 1945

Place Of Birth: Washington, DC

Star Sign: Scorpio

Relationship status: Married Gus Trikonis and divorced him on 1976, married Bill Hudson in 1976 and divorced him in 1980

Claim to fame: Goldie Hawn is an popular Oscar-winning American actress, director and producer. She started her career in television and acted in series like Good Morning, World and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.She won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role in her first film Cactus Flower (1969). She was again nominated for Oscar for her role in successful film Private Benjamin. She has been known for comic timing and has done successful films both in comic role and serious ones. Her hit films include Foul Play, Best Friends, Overboard, Bird on a Wire and many more.

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Name: Veronica Hamel

Birthday: November 20, 1943

Place Of Birth: Philadelphia

Star Sign: Scorpio

Claim to fame: Veronica is an American actress who switched over to television after being a fashion model. Her early notable role was in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and she was the model in the last cigarette commercial televised in the US for Virginia Slims. She became a known face in television series from 1975. She gained immense popularity for playing Joyce Davenport in the long-running TV series Hill Street Blues. She was named on Us magazine's "Best Dressed" list for 1983. Later, Veronica Hamel played the role of Margo Shephard, Jack's mother, in the popular television series Lost.




Name: Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy

Birthday: November 20, 1925

Place Of Birth: Brookline, Massachusetts,

Star Sign: Scorpio

Claim to fame: Robert F. Kennedy or RFK was the brother of John F. Kennedy
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and had been the United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. After John F. Kennedy's appointment as the US President, RFK became the Attorney General and enjoyed a large influence on the policies during the administration. President Kennedy had also approached and sought advice. He was committed to the Civil Rights movement during the 1960's for the equal rights for the black. He played a key role in the regime of both Kennedy and later Johnson to make the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
On November 22, 1963, the assassination of JFK shocked the whole world including the Kennedy family. Kennedy remained as Attorney General for President Johnson, but after nine months Kennedy left the post to became a candidate to win a seat in the United States Senate, representing New York. He won with a large margin in November,1964.
As a Senator, he supported and advocated the betterment of the African-Americans and other native people of America . In 1968, he announced his candidacy for Presidency amidst lot of political uncertainties and controversies. He had planned to win the nomination through popular support in the primaries. Kennedy finally won the Indiana and Nebraska Democratic primaries, but lost the Oregon primary. On June 4, 1968, Kennedy won the California primary with large margin. On June 5,1968 he was shot by an Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan after Kennedy was going to greet his supporters in the kitchen passageway of the ballroom.



Name: Joshua Otis (Josh) Turner

Birthday: November 20, 1977

Place Of Birth: Hannah, South Carolina

Star Sign: Scorpio

His second album Your Man was released in early 2006 and the song “Your man” became his first Number one single. Your Man was certified Gold by the RIAA four weeks after its release, and later went Platinum six months later. His second biggest hit was "Would You Go with Me" from the album Your man. The song remained at the number one slot week after week and became a download hit. Another song called "Me and God" from the same album was released as a single to Christian radio and was quiet popular. His song "Would You Go with Me" and the album Your man was nominated for the Grammy awards. He was honoured with a membership of Grand Ole Opry.


Happy Birthday Joshua and to all of you whose birthday is on today!

Here is the song "Your Man" by Josh Turner

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Name: Georgia Totti O'Keeffe

Birthday: November 15, 1887

Place Of Birth: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Star Sign: Scorpio

Relationship Status: Married

Claim to fame: Georgia Totti O'Keeffe has been a prominent American artist in the 1920's. Her works mainly showed the synthesis of abstract form along with the presentation of flowers, rocks and other natural objects. Her subject matter often were transformed into powerful abstract images.
In 1916, Georgia's paintings were first exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz's prestigious 291 gallery. Later when she got married to Alfred Stieglitz, her work was influenced by his as well his modernists' friends. During the 1920s, O'Keeffe made both natural and architectural forms the subject of her work. Some of her paintings are Petunia, No. 2, City Night, and New York—Night and Radiator Bldg--Night, New York. In 1928, she sold six of her calla lily paintings for $25,000 US dollars, which was at the time the largest sum ever paid for a group of paintings by a living American artist.In the 1930s and 1940s O'Keeffe's her reputation was widely spread, and she was emtitled numerous commissions.She was given two one-woman retrospectives, the first at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 and another in 1946 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the first ever given by that museum to a woman. She was also awarded honorary degrees by numerous universities and in the mid-1940s, the Whitney Museum of American Art sponsored a project to establish the first catalogue of her work. In 1962, she was elected to the fifty-member American Academy of Arts and Letters. After her death on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, was established in Santa Fe in 1997 to perpetuate O'Keeffe's artistic legacy.

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Name: Zena Grey

Birthday: November 15, 1988

Place Of Birth: New York City

Star Sign: Scorpio

Claim to fame: Zena Grey is an young American actor who starred in popular cinema like Snow Day (2000) and Max Keeble's Big Move (2001). Her first film was The Bone Collector opposite Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in 1998.


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Name: Condoleeza Rice

Birthday: November 14, 1954.

Place Of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama

Star Sign: Scorpio

Relationship Status: Single

Claim to fame: Condoleeza Rice , 66th United States Secretary of State is one of the most influential name to be reckoned with in the world of politics. She is the first African- American woman and the second African-American after Collin Powel to rise to this position. She has been the first woman to be National Security Advisor and on 2005 became the Secretary of State, being the second woman to hold that position after Madelline Albright.

Condoleeza Rice has been in the list of Times Magazine 100 most influential people in the world four times within the brief period and is one of only three people in the entire world considered influential enough to have made the list so frequently.

Name: Prince Charles

Birthday: November 14, 1948

Place Of Birth: Buckingham Palace , London

Star Sign: Scorpio

Relationship Status: First married to Lady Diana and later divorced; married to Camilla Parker Bowles on 2005

Claim to fame: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, is the eldest son of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and is the heir to the throne of United Kingdom as well as of sixteen sovereign states known as Commonwealth realms. The Prince of Wales is well known for his extensive charity work, particularly for The Prince's Trust, The Prince's Drawing School, The Prince's Regeneration Trust, and The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment.
His private life has been immensely speculated and a fodder of the tabloids. His first marriage to Diana Spencer later became the headlines of newspaper for the controversies. On 28 August 1996, the trobled marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana ended in divorce. They had two sons, Prince William of Wales, and Prince Henry of Wales, who is known as Harry.
On 9 April, 2005 he got married to Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall.

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Name: Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson

Birthday: November 13, 1850.

Place Of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland,

Star Sign: Scorpio

Relationship Status: Married

Claim to fame: Novelist, poet and travel writer, Robert Louis Stevenson , had been one of the pioneers in the Neo- Romanticism in the English literature. He is the writer of the classic novels like Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Kidnapped (1886) and many others. Besides novels, he wrote short stories, poems and travel books like An Inland Voyage, The Amateur Emigrant, etc.
In the mid 20th century Stevenson's contribution was not recognized by the scholars as authors like Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf condemned his writing. It was in the late 20th century that Stevenson's works are reevaluated and has been put in the same stature of Joseph Conrad and Henry James. Whatever might the scholars say about him, but robert louis Stevenson is undoubtedly a popular author and is ranked the 25th most translated author in the world.

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Name: Maria Skłodowska-Curie aka Madam Curie

Birthday: November 7, 1867


Place Of Birth:Warsaw, Congress Poland

Star Sign: Scorpio

Relationship Status: Married

Claim to fame: Madam Curie , a Polish by birth and French by citizenship, has been a renowned a physicist and chemist who was pioneer in the field of radioactivity. She was first in many realms- first person to be honored with the Nobel Prize twice and the only one who received it for working in both physics and chemistry, first female Nobel Laureate and first female professor at the University of Paris.
Born as Maria Skłodowska , she became known as Madam Curie after being married to scientist Pierre Curie. In 1898, the couple discovered new elements and named them Polonium and Radium. In 1903, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics for their contribution in Physics. In 1911, she got the second Noble in Chemistry for discovering polonium and radium and her subsequent contribution in the field of science.




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Name: Sean John "Diddy" Combs

Birthday: November 4, 1969

Place Of Birth:Cameron Missouri

Star Sign: Scorpio

Relationship Status: Single

Claim to fame: The biggest hip-hop impresario of the mid-'90s, Sean Combs -- known as Puff Daddy both here and in the world of rap until his professional name change to Diddy. The recording company Bad boy records, clothing lines Sean John, Sean by Sean Combs, a movie production company and two restaurants - this is the list of his business interest.

After establishing Bad boy records, the singles by Craig Mack and The Notorious B.I.G became huge hits. Puff Daddy started signing more acts to Bad Boy,including
Dream, Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, Father MC, 112 and Total, as well as producing for Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil' Kim, TLC, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, SWV, Aretha Franklin and others Dream, Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, Father MC, 112 and Total, as well as producing for Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil' Kim, TLC, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, SWV, Aretha Franklin and others.






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Name: Gemma Ward

Birthday: November 3, 1987

Place Of Birth: Perth, Western Australia,

Star Sign: Scorpio

Relationship Status: Single

Claim to fame: At the age of only sixteen, Gemma Ward became the youngest model on the cover of the American edition of Vogue and was the first model to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine. She was listed by American Vogue as one of the nine "It Girls" in the modeling world. At this tender age of twenty, she did modelling for designers like Versace, Gucci, Chanel, Valentino, Alexander McQueen, and many more. Also her client list include some big names like Burberry, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana,Louis Vuitton, Prada, Rochas, Swarovski and many more. She has been on the covers of Vogue worldwide. She has been considered as the model of the moment with her out of the world baby-doll like look which has created new craze in fashion.




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