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In the USA:
"Woody Wood-Pecker" by Kay Kyser
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: General Lucius Clay
(TIME Cover: July the 12th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 17th of July: |
1487 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
1831 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
1947 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1952 - David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician
1954 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
1963 - Letsie III, King of Lesotho
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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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