Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Sammy Kaye
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Robert Young
(TIME Cover: February the 3rd, 1947)
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Famous people born on the 7th of February: |
1102 - Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
1693 - Empress Anna of Russia (d. 1740)
1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)
1906 - Puyi, Emperor of China (d. 1967)
1962 - David Bryan, American musician (Bon Jovi)
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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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