Horace Silver finished recording Blowin’ the Blues Away for Blue Note Records on this day in 1959.

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After WWII, Disney influenced how Americans viewed both royalty and post-war roles for girls and women.

Princess Elizabeth was crowned Queen in 1952.

Cinderella was released in 1950, Sleeping Beauty in 1959. Both featured white, blonde, and blue-eyed princesses as aspirations.

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Las 10 mejores películas de la década 1950-1959.

Las diez películas de animación más interesantes que se estrenaron de 1950 a 1959.

Lista: https://t.co/rKbRgKbkuR

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Anne Hickmott, London Underground poster, 1959. Hickmott (b. 1935) is a graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, painter and printmaker. She studied at the Royal College of Art and has designed book covers and worked for various British transportation companies and the BBC.

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Not to be an old man yelling at clouds or anything, but Disney animation hasn’t done better framing and backgrounds since Sleeping Beauty in 1959.

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Angelo Bianchetti 1911-1994
"Autogrill Montepulciano" 1967
Bridge Restaurant. Restaurant built like a bridge over a road or motorway...
introduced this concept to Europe in 1959. He built nine bridge restaurants for Italian food chain Pavesi...
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9 July 1959. Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant XD858 made the first non-stop flight from Marham, England to Cape Town. The pilot was MRAF Sir Michael James Beetham DFC, AFC, GCB, CBE, DL. He and his crew returned to Marham on 14 July 1959.

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Mimi Gross, "Naomi Schor", 1959.

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1959. 경비실에서 안내방송 드립니다 - 기태용

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'Farmhouses, some of which, in the Barony of Gowran, have cut stone door cases of three blocks, which make a good appearance.'

Thatched windowless house, Ballynonagh, Co. Galway. Drawn by Simon Coleman in 1959.
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Bela Zaboly drew the Popeye comic from 1939 to 1959. I love looking at his art.

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Stately Pininfarina styling ushered in the last of Wolseley's big cars in 1959. The 2.9-litre 6/99 (later uprated to 6/110) was marketed as 'the choice of the professional man'. In true BMC tradition it shared a body with Austin and Vanden Plas siblings.

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The Australian Women's Weekly April 1959.

magazine

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Robert Smith, born on this day in 1959.
Seen here in London, 1983.
Photo Pierre Terrasson

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Cover of , May 1959. Art director: Leo Lionni, cover design: Walter Allner, photograph at top, above logo: Loomis Dean.

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Paul Strand,
The Happy Family, from “Portfolio II, The Garden”,
1959.
Gelatin silver print.

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George Grosz.
Berlin 1893-1959.
Seated woman.

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