Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Harbor Lights" by Sammy Kaye
In the UK:
"Goodnight Irene" by Frank Sinatra & Jo Stafford
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Christopher Fry
(TIME Cover: November the 20th, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 21st of November: |
1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
1854 - Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
1898 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
1935 - Fairuz, Lebanese diva
1960 - Brian Ritchie, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1965 - Björk, Icelandic singer
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 |
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Cecil Frank Powell
1903-1969
for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method
United Kingdom
Bristol University - Bristol, United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1950 |
All about Eve
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
with George Sanders (Addison De Witt), Anne Baxter (Eve Harrington) and Bette Davis (Margo Channing)
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Designed in 1950 |
The Chair, Model No. 132U
by Donald Knorr |
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