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"A fight to the End" -bull Columbian mammoths. This fossil was found in Nebraska, 1962.
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2021-05-07

A pair of fighting mammoths – brought to life from one of the most extraordinary fossils you NEVER knew existed!

The specimen was found in Nebraska, 1962.

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2021-05-07

This day in 1940, John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath. The novel would be cited prominently when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

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2021-05-06

Hu JunDi / 胡峻涤, 1962. (Impressionist painter born in the Jilin province in Northern China.)

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2021-04-23

Les Indes galantes.
Jean Cocteau, 1962.

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2021-04-20

Jean Gabriel Domergue. French, 1889-1962.

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2021-04-18

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.

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2021-04-14

Mercury astronaut John Glenn walks to “Freedom 7" at Cape Canaveral, February 20, 1962. Painting by George Sottung, 1962.

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2021-04-07

Today's PUNCH colour cover. Gerald Scarfe 1962. It's not referring to anything. It's just a cover...

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2021-03-26

East German Wartburg models from 1962. Made in the VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach.



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2021-03-10

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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2021-02-27

From The Nutshell Library Series: Alligators All Around An Alphabet by Maurice Sendak. First published in 1962.

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2021-02-21

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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

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2021-02-12

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She was friends with Nelson Mandela, and they first met while she was a journalist in Cairo in 1962.

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2021-02-08

Mary Leakey's team excavated the OH 13 partial skull in 1962. More recent work at the site has placed this skull as the last known appearance of Homo habilis. The species earliest appearance at Olduvai is only around 180,000 years earlier.

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2021-02-08

Today's 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.

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2021-02-06

Susan Kahn, The Library, 1962.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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2021-02-05

illustration and reference photo by Gil Elvgren, 1962.

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2021-01-20

ESB Housewives’ calendar: January 1962. 🗓
Start the year right with some ‘braised beef de luxe’, and beat those January blues with a ‘jam omelette’!

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2021-01-06