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| | Timeline 1947 |
 | | 1947 Jul, Senator John Bricker, a republican from Ohio, was shot at twice as he entered the Senate subway. | | | 1947 Feb 1, Algis Ratnikas, timeliner, was born in a refugee camp in Munich, Germany, to Jonas and Stase Ratnikas from Lithuania. | | | 1947 Jun 20, President Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, but had his veto overridden by Congress. |
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http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1947.HTML
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| | Hughes, Benjamin Dwight (1878 - 1947). Papers, 1899 - 1947. |
| | In 1941 he was elected as a representative to the Minnesota State Legislature, and served until his death on April 4, 1947. | | | Included in this collection are some of his speeches, his legislative correspondence (January 1947 - April 1947), and correspondence and printed material relating to Benjamin Hughes' work for the creation of the Mayo Memorial Building at the University of Minnesota. | | | Also included are correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and minutes of meetings relating to the funding and construction of the Mayo Memorial building on the University of Minnesota campus. |
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http://www.lib.mnsu.edu/lib/archives/fas/smhc167.html
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| | Truman Doctrine Documents |
| | Chronology of the drafting of the President's message of March 12, 1947 | | | Draft of suggestions for the President's message to Congress in regard to the Greek situation, March 3, 1947 | | | Rough draft of the President's message to Congress in regard to Greece, March 9, 1947 |
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http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/doctrine/large/doctrine.htm
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| | The Myth of Separation of Church and State by Mathew Staver |
| | In 1947 the Supreme Court popularized Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state." | | | The problem has arisen when the Supreme Court in 1947 erroneously picked up the metaphor and attempted to construct a constitutional principal. | | | While the metaphor understood in its proper context is useful, we might do well to heed the words of the United States Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist: |
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http://www.lc.org/Resources/separation.html
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| | Welcome to the history of the Tour de France |
| | Time trials had always been his undoing, and never was this more the case than in 1947. | | | With the yellow jersey on his shoulders, Vietto began the 139-kilometer time trial from Vannes to St. Brieuc. | | | At the start of the first post-World War II Tour in 1947, René Vietto was one of the few remaining members of the race’s old-guard. |
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http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/TDF/1947/us/annee.html?RaceYear=1903&x=39&y=12
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| | 1947 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | June 23 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. | | | October 20 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins | | | January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947
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| | LIFE Magazine February 24, 1947 |
| | In 1973, Justice Douglas married his fourth wife, who was born in 1947. | | | (This is roughly akin to trying to relive 1947) He ate the same food, drank the same beverages and smoked the same tobacco as Balzac -- he heven took to wearing monk's robes like his hero. | | | Prior to 1947, no American president had ever visited Mexico. |
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http://www.jitterbuzz.com/lif0224.html
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| | Truman Library - Harry S. Truman 1947 Diary |
| | Truman Library - Harry S. Truman 1947 Diary | | | The Harry S. Truman Library is one of eleven Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration | | | Transcriber's note: A 1947 diary book, bearing the title 1947 Diary and Manual of the Real Estate Board of New York, Inc., was sent to President Truman by Matthew G. Ely, the board's president, in late 1946. |
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http://www.trumanlibrary.org/diary
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| | Smallpox and mass vaccination - New York City, 1947 |
| | 2 new cases reported at Cardinal Hayes Convalescent Home for Children, Milbrook, N.Y. April 15, 1947 | | | He was not diagnosed immediately, but was hospitalized at a hospital for infectious diseases in New York City. | | | Smallpox and mass vaccination - New York City, 1947 |
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http://www.med.uiuc.edu/m2/epidemiology/smallpox.htm
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| | World Wide Hall of Fame |
| | FRANK FREDERICKSON (C) Here is how the final voting went: | | | If they did not get elected in 1947, they would have to be elected as an Oldtimer. | | | For Odie Cleghorn, Hugh Lehman and Harry Holmes, they were on their last ballot as a Honoured Player. |
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http://www.chidlovski.com/wwhhof/1947.htm
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| | General Assembly Resolutions 2nd Session |
| | SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO INFORMATION TRANSMITTED UNDER ARTICLE 73e OF 3 November 1947 | | | STANDARD FORM FOR THE GUIDANCE OF MEMBERS IN THE PREPARATION OF INFORMATION TO BE TRANSMITTED UNDER ATICLE 73e OF THE CHARTER |
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http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/2/ares2.htm
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| | Harry S. Truman: Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union. |
| | The purpose of these laws was to permit an orderly transition from war to peace. | | | In a few days there will be submitted to the Congress the Economic Report of the President, and also the Budget Message. | | | Others can be considered immediately by the Commission and its recommendations can be submitted to the Congress in the near future. |
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12762
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| | Major League Baseball : History : World Series History |
| | 1947 - New York Yankees (4) vs. Brooklyn Dodgers (3) | | | After eight innings, Yankee starter Bill Bevens was working on a no-hitter, though the Yanks led just 2-1 because the Dodgers scored once in the fifth on two walks and an RBI fielder's choice. | | | The Yankees battled back, but Brooklyn held on for a 9-8 squeaker, Yogi Berra grounding out to end the game. |
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http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1947
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| | "Exodus 1947" |
| | In July 1947, the "President Warfield" left Sete, France, for Palestine with over 4,500 Jewish men, women, and children, all displaced persons (DPs) or survivors of the Holocaust. | | | Even before the ship (by then renamed the "Exodus 1947") reached Palestine's territorial waters, British destroyers surrounded it. | | | The ships first landed at Toulon, France, where the passengers were ordered to disembark. |
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http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005419
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| | Cosmic COINTELPRO events for 1947 |
| | Donald Sheahan wrote that his father had indeed seen the pyramid once before, and added that some senior TWA executives were also on the 1947 flight, the purpose of which was to establish landing rights for the airline around the world. | | | Don Sheahan believed that his father had taken the photograph, or that it had been taken by someone on the same flight. | | | For the rest of the Cold War, Washington and the CIA will back notorious Greek leaders with deplorable human rights records. |
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http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/cosmic_cointelpro_1947.htm
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| | fUSION Anomaly. 1947 |
| | Ron Hubbard) considered himself to be the one 'who came after'; that he was Crowley's successor; that he had taken on the mantle of the 'Great Beast'. | | | Majestic 12 - a hush-hush panel of scientists and military men supposedly organized by President Truman in 1947 to study | | | Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-), Norwegian anthropologist and explorer, known for his theories about migration patterns of ancient peoples. |
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http://fusionanomaly.net/1947.html
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| | MARCH, 1947. |
| | This was the situation in which the Muslim League attack on the Punjab minorities was inevitably launched. | | | The women and children were all abducted and were later rescued by the military. | | | The award of the Boundary Commission was made public on the 17th August, 1947. |
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http://voi.org/books/mla/ch4.htm
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| | 1947 Texas City Disaster |
| | This report was put out on April 29, 1947, 13 days after the first explosion and is complete with photographs. | | | In the years between 1947 and 1991 when the cemetery was enlarged and refurbished as a WAR AND PEACE MEMORIAL, many of the small markers were lost, moved, or buried in the thatch grass. | | | The burial service for the unidentified dead was held Sunday morning, June 22, 1947 at 10:00 A.M. Despite the fact that there was very little advance publicity, cars were park a mile and a half up and down the highway, and the crowd was estimated at 5,ooo. |
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http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
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| | The Lasker Awards for 1947 (December 1947) |
| | Copyright 1947 by the American Public Health Association. | | | This announcement of the Lasker Award for 1947 included a detailed citation for the award. | | | Periodical: "The Lasker Awards for 1947." American Journal of Public Health 37, (December 1947): 1612-1613. |
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http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/CC/A/A/O/H
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| | MetaHistory - Metahistory: Lexicon N |
| | In the fall of 1947, the world was shocked by the announcement of the formation of the sovereign state of Israel. | | | This happened on the rooftop of the American Embassy (as described by a source I will cite the next time I lay my hands on that book. | | | It could be said that the secret conflict between the Zaddikim and the Gnostics who attempted to expose them decided the fate of the religious life of humanity. |
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http://www.metahistory.org/lexicon_N.php
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| | U. S. and Canadian Shortwave Stations (1947) |
| | This article was taken from the 1947 Broadcasting Yearbook. | | | (Under the 1947 fiscal year Appropriations Act, private licensees are permitted to program their stations, without Sate Dept. supervision, 25% of the broadcast time, but as of Jan. 1, 1947, the State Dept. was still programming all stations full time by agreement with the licensees.) | | | Note: Under arrangements carrying over from the war, these U. shortwave stations are leased by the licensees to the Government and are programmed by the International Broadcast Division, Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, Department of State. |
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http://members.aol.com/jeff560/1947sw.html
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| | Michael Ignatieff |
| | Michael Ignatieff was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 12 May 1947, the son of a Russian émigré father and a Canadian mother. | | | He read History at the University of Toronto and gained a doctorate at Harvard University. |
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http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth141
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| | Roswell UFO Crash of July 1947 / Nazi UFOs & Operation Paperclip |
| | Although acquitted, his earlier admissions were well known, and it was generally accepted that he had indeed participated in the gruesome experiments. | | | With the "protocol" established in 1947, no such wrecks would ever make major headlines again. | | | But they DIDN'T know what ELSE our government was involved in during that era. |
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http://www.alienresistance.org/roswell1947ufocrash.htm
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| | Health Physics Posters from ORNL (1947) |
| | In 1947 the term was only 4 years old and no less confusing then than now. | | | These posters were produced at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1947. | | | The purpose of the posters was to remind personnel of radiation safety practices and also to let them know what the term "Health Physics" meant, i.e. |
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http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/hpposters/hpposters.htm
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| | 1947project |
| | Tiernan stayed in, and that was the last time he saw his friend Evelyn. | | | War-damaged returning soldiers were threatened by a new kind of independent female, who in turn found her freedoms disappearing as male workers returned to the factories. | | | Soon there will be another liquor-infused ladykilling, and another, and Evelyn will be forgotten by all but her mother and best barfly pals and her killer, and God willing, she will become part of us. |
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http://1947project.blogspot.com
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| | This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. | | | Network Working Group D. Spinellis Request for Comments: 1947 SENA S.A. Category: Informational May 1996 Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. | | | Spinellis Informational [Page 6] RFC 1947 Greek Encoding for E-mail Messages May 1996 Security Considerations Security issues are not discussed in this memo. |
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1947.txt
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| | 1947 AAGPBL |
| | 1947 was the fifth year of the league and the first year the pitchers were allowed to pitch sidearm. | | | Philip K. Wrigley, the league founder, never actually attended any of the games. | | | The Chicks finally won the series in the seventh game with a 1-0 win. |
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http://www.geocities.com/gls84/girls/somgirls47.html
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| | LincMad's 1947 Area Code Map |
| | This map shows the original area code boundaries, established in 1947. | | | A number of these original area codes split not long after they were established, beginning in 1948 with the creation of area code 219 in northern Indiana. | | | Check out my political blog (not for the faint of heart), The Third Path at LincMad. |
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http://www.lincmad.com/map1947.html
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| | 1947 |
| | Al Jolson, one of America's all-time great entertainers, is credited with co-writing the song (with Saul Chaplin) and sang it in 1946 in the first motion picture based on his life (The Jolson Story). | | | was recorded by TV and radio star Arthur Godfrey (with the Too Fat Trio) in 1947 and became his all-time greatest of a dozen hits. | | | Southern songstress Dinah Shore's version went to No. 1 the same year. |
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http://www.shapirobernstein.com/mbr/tour/1947.htm
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| | Roswell 1947 |
| | In 1947, the day after the crash was reported in Roswell, the government put out a headline that said that they had recovered a crashed UFO and that they were sending the debris to Texas for evaluation. | | | That very night the base in Texas stated that what was found was none other than that of a weather balloon. | | | This theory also has proved to be wrong and for a full explanation of this and other possible causes I strongly recommend the book 'The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell' by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt. |
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http://strangegr.tripod.com/strangeandparanormalactivities/id1.html
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| | Rotten Tomatoes Forums - GD Yearly Consensus - 1947 |
| | DVDsPulling out is what Bush's father should have done 59 years ago. | | | For the first time in this consensus, I am unable to vote. | | | I've been asked to do this since the person who should do it isn't around. |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=386277
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| | TIME 100: Jackie Robinson |
| | In 1947 life in America — at least my America, and Jackie's &; was segregation. | | | They say certain people are bigger than life, but Jackie Robinson is the only man I've known who truly was. |
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http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/robinson01.html
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| | Miracle Month - The Invention of the First Transistor |
| | On November 17, 1947, Walter Brattain dumped his whole experiment into a thermos of water. | | | The silicon contraption he'd built was supposed to help him study how electrons acted on the surface of a semiconductor -- and why whatever they were doing made it impossible to build an amplifier. |
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http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/miraclemo.html
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| | PROJECT 1947 - Misc. Roswell-Related Documents |
| | Cover Page of History of Headquarters Eighth Air Force - 1 July Thru 31 July 1947 | | | Page One of Joint USA-CIS Anomaly Federation letter reporting on requests for information on Roswell from the archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Security. | | | Cover Page of 509th Bomb Group and Roswell Army Air Field Combined History - 1 July 1947 Through 31 July 1947. |
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http://www.project1947.com/roswell/rosdocs.htm
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| | The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series |
| | While the Dodgers failed to step to the front in October 1947, they clearly had been in the forefront in April. | | | But when the page closed on this Series -- more to the point, when relief ace Joe Page closed this Series -- the Brooklyn Dodgers found themselves just where they had been in 1916, 1920 and 1941: in the loss column. |
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http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/worldseries/1947.html
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| | Welcome to PROJECT 1947 |
| | An extensive collection of 1947 UFO reports and newspaper accounts from the U.S.A. is supplemented by a compilation of significant sightings from Scandinavia, France, Australia and other countries. | | | PROJECT 1947 is an attempt to enhance the future of UFO research by establishing a solid collection of official UFO documents, newspaper articles and personal accounts from the beginning of the modern UFO era. | | | PROJECT 1947 is a world-wide effort to document the origins of the modern UFO phenomenon. |
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http://www.project1947.com
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| | IMDb: Venice Film Festival: 1947 |
| | From 1947 to 1950 the Coppa Volpi is known as Premio internazionale al miglior attore/alla migliore attrice. | | | Odd Man Out (1947) - Carol Reed (I) | | | Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) - Hans Richter (II) |
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http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Venice_Film_Festival/1947
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| | 1947 New York Yankees Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com |
| | 1947 brought us Ed and a championship for his beloved Yankees. | | | Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org. | | | Like seasons past he's gone, but not forgotten. |
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1947.shtml
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| | Sikhote-Alin Meteorite |
| | Time of Fall: February 12, 1947, 10:38 a.m. | | | Here is a map showing where the Sikhote-Alin Meteorite Fell: |
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http://www.alaska.net/~meteor/SAinfo.htm
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| | 1947 - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | April 15 - Jackie Robinson, an African-American, plays first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing. | | | Years: 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 - 1947 - 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947
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| | Greatest Films of 1947 |
| | The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (1947), 95 minutes, D: Irving Reis | | | The Bishop's Wife (1947), 105 minutes, D: Henry Koster | | | A Double Life (1947), 103 minutes, D: George Cukor |
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http://www.filmsite.org/1947.html
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| | Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 |
| | The first powered flight of the X-1-1 was made on April 11, 1946, at Muroc Army Air Field with Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin, a Bell test pilot, at the controls. | | | On October 14, 1947, with USAF Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager as pilot, the X-1-1 flew faster than the speed of sound for what is generally accepted as the first supersonic flight by a piloted aircraft. | | | Captain Yeager ignited the four-chambered XLR-11 rocket engines after being air-launched from under the bomb bay of a JTB-29A (#45-21800) at 21,000 feet. |
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http://www.chuckyeager.org/htm_docs/x1tmln.shtml
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| | Amazon.com: 1947-1949: Music: Sidney Bechet |
| | Recorded in February 1947, these are rare extended blues performances (all around 5 - 6 minutes long), originally issued on an obscure Wax LP. | | | They feature a six piece group with Bechet partnering Mezz Mezzrow, trombonist Vernon Brown and, best of all, James P. Johnson. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004WFCT?v=glance
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| | Feminist SFF & Utopia: An Elisabeth Vonarburg Bibliography |
| | Born to life in 1947 (France), to reading in 1952 (myths, fairy tales, comics, adventure), to writing in 1958 (poetry) and to science-fiction in 1964 (at last!). | | | Martha Millard Agency, 204 Park Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940 |
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http://feministsf.org/femsf/authors/vonarburg.html
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| | 1947 |
| | In addition to the major changes, radiant mandorlas were painted behind the side altar statues of the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph, and the arch and rear wall were cleaned and "enlivened." The work began in 1947 and continued into 1948. | | | Nolan ordered work done to enhance the lighting and replaced the mensas (tops) of the side altars. | | | Professor Lelio de Ranieri was the artistic supervisor for the project. |
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http://theology.shu.edu/chapel/SHU_Chapel/interior_page_06.htm
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