Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Near You" by Francis Craig
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Charles De Gaulle
(TIME Cover: November the 17th, 1947)
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Famous people born on the 21st of November: |
1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
1854 - Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
1898 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
1935 - Fairuz, Lebanese diva
1960 - Brian Ritchie, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1965 - Björk, Icelandic singer
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947 |
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
1869-1951
for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight
France
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1947 |
Gentleman's Agreement
directed by Elia Kazan
with Gregory Peck (Phil Green) and Dorothy McGuire (Kathy)
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Designed in 1947 |
The Daybed
by Richard Stein |
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