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In the USA:
"Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" by Peggy Lee
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Reinhold Niebuhr
(TIME Cover: March the 8th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 13th of March: |
1615 - Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
1855 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author (d. 1986)
1913 - William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1987)
1914 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948 |
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Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1902-1971
for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins
Sweden
Uppsala University - Uppsala, Sweden
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1948 |
Hamlet
directed by Laurence Olivier
with Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) and Jean Simmons (Ophelia)
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Designed in 1948 |
The Revolving Chair, model no. 4876
by Edward Wormley |
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