Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 26th of March: |
1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer andsongwriter
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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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