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In the USA:
"Some Enchanted Evening" by Perry Como
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Elizabeth Taylor
(TIME Cover: August the 22nd, 1949)
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Famous people born on the 24th of August: |
1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 - James Weddell, Antarctica explorer (d. 1834)
1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949 |
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Hideki Yukawa
1907-1981
for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces
Japan
Kyoto Imperial University - Kyoto, Japan; Columbia University - New York, NY, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1949 |
All the King's Men
directed by Robert Rossen
with Broderick Crawford (Willie Stark) and Mercedes McCambridge (Sadie Burke)
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Designed in 1949 |
The JG chair
by Ray Komai |
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