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Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Filipino American diver and coach Victoria "Vicki" Draves, the first Asian American woman to win an Olympic medal. On this day in 1948, Draves won the gold medal in the women’s 3-meter springboard event at the London Summer Olympics.
Released July 29, 1948, The Amazing Mr. X, aka The Spiritualist, is an American horror thriller film noir directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, and Cathy O'Donnell.
On the 28th of June 1948, Ken Ishikawa was born. Mentored by the great Go Nagai, Ishikawa would go on to create the iconic Getter Robo franchise in 1974. He sadly passed away on the 15th of November, 2006 due to sudden heart failure.
Happy belated birthday Mr Ishikawa 😔
Concept drawings by Ray Harryhausen for BARON MUNCHAUSEN ON THE MOON, dated 1948, and a Naga dancer from THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD.
Mengenang pemogokan kaum buruh pertama kali di Indonesia pasca merdeka. Sarbupri mengorganisir buruh pabrik karung goni Delanggu, Klaten pada tahun 1948, untuk menuntut kenaikan upah dan hidup layak. Selamat Hari Buruh!! #MayDay2020
On this day in 1948, the world lost one of the greatest ecological thinkers in American history. Although 72 years have gone by, Aldo Leopold's impact has only grown stronger, with his ideas and writings continuing to inspire people around the world.
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Madeleine Carroll as Agatha Reed in Goodbye My Fancy, 1948
The play was written by Fay Kanin, & directed by Sam Wanamaker. It opened in November of 1948, & ran until Christmas Eve the following year.
Ivon Hitchens: Yellow Autumn from a Terrace, 1948, (detail) one of the key paintings on sale with @osbornesamuelgallery at @LondonArtFair
#ivonhitchens #modernbritishart #modbrit #LAF20
On this day 1948, "Cinderella" the first full-length ballet by Frederick Ashton with music by Sergei Prokofiev is first presented by Sadler's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden, London #ZombieArt #Cinderella #ballet #ZombiePortraits #RobSacchettoArt #SacchettoZombieArt
💥 The next Modern and Contemporary Photography #auction by #Grisebach takes place #tomorrow at 6 pm in #Berlin! 💥 https://t.co/6RrFOz863V
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📷Otto Steinert, "Der Sohn“, auch "Mutter und Sohn“ (The Son / Mother and Son). 1948, 3 Vintages. courtesy Grisebach GmbH
#OnThisDay in 1948, T. S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."
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"Untitled" (1990) by Gavin Jantjes, b. 1948, South Africa; ink and photocopy on paper; drawn from his sketchbook notes on astronomy and Khoi San rock art painting; this drawing compares concepts of the modern state to the constellation Draco...@NMAfA https://t.co/XED5Udz9hp
Entre 1942 a 1948, Fawcett Comics publico la serie de Captain Midnight. En ella, se contaban las aventuras de Jim Albright, un aviador al cual se le asignaban misiones peligrosisimas pero de las cuales siempre zafaba.
A Chinese village in northern China, 1947-1948, archives of the Crooks.
2 March 1948, Rory Gallagher was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland.
イグジット戦略は成功、あと1,948,596ポイントちょーだい! 💎🕳💎 #exitstrategy #iosgaming #marbloid https://t.co/rddCqENpzs