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: Paul-Henri Spaak
(TIME Cover: May the 10th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 11th of May: |
1811 - Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese Twins
1894 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
1904 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter (d. 1989)
1941 - Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
1978 - Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
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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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