Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Nature Boy" by King Cole
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Augustus John
(TIME Cover: May the 31st, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 10th of June: |
1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher
1819 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)
1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991)
1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
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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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