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Hu JunDi / 胡峻涤, 1962. (Impressionist painter born in the Jilin province in Northern China.)
14 April 1939. The classic novel Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck was first published in the USA. It’s set in the Great Depression, focusing on the poor Joad farming family struggling with economic hardship. The novel helped Steinbeck to win the Nobel Prize in 1962.
Mercury astronaut John Glenn walks to “Freedom 7" at Cape Canaveral, February 20, 1962. Painting by George Sottung, 1962.
Today's PUNCH colour cover. Gerald Scarfe 1962. It's not referring to anything. It's just a cover... #Evergreen #Evergiven #Suez #shipwrecks
East German Wartburg models from 1962. Made in the VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach.
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The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and was cited prominently when John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
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Félix Labisse (French, 1905-1982), L'état d'urgence [State of Emergency], 1962. Oil on canvas, 97.8 x 131.3 cm. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Netherlands https://t.co/tzwbQ3tUDD
It's #BlackHistoryMonth!
#MayaAngelou wrote @Hallmark greetings: she wanted to “be in people’s hands...who would never buy a book.”
She was friends with Nelson Mandela, and they first met while she was a journalist in Cairo in 1962.
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Mary Leakey's team excavated the OH 13 partial skull in 1962. More recent work at the site has placed this #hominin skull as the last known appearance of Homo habilis. The species earliest appearance at Olduvai is only around 180,000 years earlier. #paleoanthropology
Today's #GraysonsArtClub inspirations are the technically superb but queasily disturbing paintings by American John Currin b.1962. His influences range from the renaissance, through Fragonard, Norman Rockwell, Robert Crumb and pornography.
Drawing everyday challenge Day 962. #okudamasayuki_illustration #illustration #design #drawingeveryday
ESB Housewives’ calendar: January 1962. 🗓
Start the year right with some ‘braised beef de luxe’, and beat those January blues with a ‘jam omelette’! #NewYear2021 #JanuaryBlues #Recipes #MauraLaverty #1960s
Left: George Solonevich's cover to Analog Magazine, September 1962. Right: Johnny Bruck’s 1971 cover for the Perry Rhodan novel Die Ausgestoßenen
@LifeofPaimaam Classic scene. This is from 1962. Starring the 1-&-wonly Dara Singh in AND as King Kong! Mast fun. This monster fighting scene happens at the start of the film. The 'king kong' bit is explained right after. Watch it here: https://t.co/cqlfut6opH