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Bono and the Gateses are TIME’s Persons of the Year

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief

February 1, 2006 by Leave a Comment

"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow," Time magazine named Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates as its 2005 Persons of the Year. Editor-at-large Nancy Gibbs making the case for Time's selection called the Gates/Bono alliance "unlikely, unsentimental, … [Read more...] about Bono and the Gateses are TIME’s Persons of the Year

July 6, 1907

Ireland’s Crown Jewels are found missing on this day in 1907, just before days before a state visit by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. The theft remains a mystery to this day. Arthur Vicars, Officer of Arms at Dublin Castle, held the jewels in his office and publicly accused his second in command, Francis Shackleton. Shackleton was exonerated and the case was never solved. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used this historical event as the influence for his Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.”

Bono and the Gateses are TIME’s Persons of the Year

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