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In the USA:
"Why Don't You Believe Me?" by Joni James
In the UK:
"Here In My Heart" by Al Martino
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Alfred Jacobsen
(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of December: |
1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)
1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer and actress
1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress, famous for her role in The Blair Witch Project
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 |
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Selman Abraham Waksman
1888-1973
for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
USA
Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1952 |
The Greatest Show on Earth
directed by Cecil B. DeMille
with Betty Hutton (Holly) and Charlton Heston (Brad Braden)
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Designed in 1952 |
The Bookcase from the Maison du Mexique
by Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouve, Sonia Delaunay |
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