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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: Lavrenty Beria
(TIME Cover: March the 22nd, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 25th of March: |
1297 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1341)
1479 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
1541 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587
1881 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
1921 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
1942 - Aretha Franklin, American singer
1943 - Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
1947 - Elton John, English singer and songwriter
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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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