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| | Timeline 1947 |
 | | 1947 Jan 15, A grisly, still-unsolved murder case came to light in Los Angeles as the mutilated remains of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, known as the "Black Dahlia" for the dark outfits she wore, were found dumped in a vacant lot. | | | 1947 Sep 17, Jeff MacNelly, political cartoonist, was born. | | | She was the owner of the Hope Diamond and had hocked the 44.52 carat gemstone at a Virginia pawnshop in 1932 to raise cash for the retrieval of the Lindbergh baby. |
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http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1947.HTML
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| | Welcome to PROJECT 1947 |
| | 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. | | | PROJECT 1947 is always looking for volunteers to help continue the search for new UFO documents and help process them for the published PROJECT 1947 volumes. |
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http://www.project1947.com
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| | MARCH, 1947. |
| | In 128 villages of Rawalpindi district, which were attacked over a period of several days, beginning from March 7, 1947, 7,000 Hindus and Sikhs have been enumerated in reports as killed. | | | The total number of Police constables in the Punjab was shown as being 24,095, out of whom 17,848 were Muslims, 6167 Hindus and Sikhs combined and 80 Europeans and Anglo-Indians. | | | This was the situation in which the Muslim League attack on the Punjab minorities was inevitably launched. |
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http://voi.org/books/mla/ch4.htm
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| | Roswell UFO Crash of July 1947 / Nazi UFOs & Operation Paperclip |
| | Finally, it must be noted that the Operation Paperclip / Nazi UFOs "angle" is not the BEGINNING of suppressed technologies relating to UFOs, but more a culmination of sorts. | | | In their accounts, both believed the "people" (their words) were truly aliens. | | | With the "protocol" established in 1947, no such wrecks would ever make major headlines again. |
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http://www.alienresistance.org/roswell1947ufocrash.htm
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| | MetaHistory - Metahistory: Lexicon N |
| | 1947 Nexus My proposed term for the extraordinary concurrence of events in 1947, including the invention of the holograph, the creation of the CIA and Operation Majestic, and the famous wave of UFO sightings including the alleged crash in Roswell, New Mexico. | | | If not, hang on, because we're just beginning to roll into the Nexus: Scholars on the scene in Jerusalem in 1947 present first-hand testimony that agents from the newly formed CIA were present in their midst, and even took microfiche photos of the parchments. | | | In the fall of 1947, the world was shocked by the announcement of the formation of the sovereign state of Israel. |
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http://www.metahistory.org/lexicon_N.php
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| | 1947 Texas City Disaster |
| | The History Channel periodically runs the story of the Disaster titled "Wrath of God: Texas City Explosions." You can click HERE to purchase the video. | | | Just before 8:00 A.M., longshoremen removed the hatch covers on Hold 4 of the French Liberty ship Grandcamp as they prepared to load the remainder of a consignment of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. | | | This report was put out on April 29, 1947, 13 days after the first explosion and is complete with photographs. |
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http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
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| | 1947 - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | Years: 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 - 1947 - 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 | | | 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. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947
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| | Cosmic COINTELPRO events for 1947 |
| | report of March 31, 1947 credited the photo to "army photographers." This news story said "American scientists have been in the area." | | | - President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. | | | 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. |
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http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/cosmic_cointelpro_1947.htm
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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. | | | A struggle followed in which a Jewish crew member and two passengers were killed. | | | 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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| | fUSION Anomaly. 1947 |
| | The first "flying saucers" were sighted in 1947 by Kenneth Arnold, in the year that gave us the CIA and information theory, in the decade that gave us TV, the Bomb, | | | 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 |
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| | Roswell 1947 |
| | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://strangegr.tripod.com/strangeandparanormalactivities/id1.html
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| | 1947project |
| | Confidential to 1947project readers: 1947 has been an incredible year, and we hope to see you over at our new digs real soon, where the subject is 1907. | | | 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. | | | Tiernan stayed in, and that was the last time he saw his friend Evelyn. |
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http://1947project.blogspot.com
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| | Truman Library - Harry S. Truman 1947 Diary |
| | Spelling and capitalization are presented as Truman wrote them, misspelled words being followed by "sic" in brackets. | | | President Truman's diary book for 1947 is transcribed as closely to his handwritten text as possible. | | | All other changes introduced by the transcriber are also put in brackets. |
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| | 1947 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), created July 1947 | | | October 20 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947
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| | Harry S. Truman: Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union. |
| | Today I shall outline five major economic policies which I believe the Government should pursue during 1947. | | | As the year 1947 begins, the state of our national economy presents great opportunities for all. | | | In a few days there will be submitted to the Congress the Economic Report of the President, and also the Budget Message. |
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| | LIFE Magazine February 24, 1947 |
| | The wife walks in and asks "What are you two up to?" Psyche offers her a drink and she is converted. | | | Prior to 1947, no American president had ever visited Mexico. | | | In 1973, Justice Douglas married his fourth wife, who was born in 1947. |
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http://www.jitterbuzz.com/lif0224.html
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| | Truman Doctrine Documents |
| | State Department press notice regarding the report on Greece, October 15, 1947 | | | Draft of note from the Greek government to the United States government, May 22, 1947 | | | Letter from Dwight P. Griswold to President Truman, September 20, 1947, memo from President Truman to the Under Secretary of State along with a copy of the letter from Dwight P. Griswold to President Truman on 9-20-47, October 13, 1947 |
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http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/doctrine/large/doctrine.htm
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| | PROJECT 1947 - Misc. Roswell-Related Documents |
| | 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. | | | Letter from 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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| | IMDb: Academy Awards, USA: 1947 |
| | Luckiest Guy in the World, The (1947) - Jerry Bresler | | | Boy and His Dog, A (1946) - Gordon Hollingshead | | | Smart as a Fox (1946) - Gordon Hollingshead |
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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. | | | 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. | | | Italy's Pierre Brambilla took the race’s helm after Vietto's demise, but on the last stage he was surprised by an unexpected attack from a little-known French rider named Jean Robic, who stole the overall race without ever wearing the yellow jersey. |
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http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/TDF/1947/us/annee.html?RaceYear=1903&x=39&y=12
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| | U. S. and Canadian Shortwave Stations (1947) |
| | This article was taken from the 1947 Broadcasting Yearbook. | | | 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. | | | (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.) |
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http://members.aol.com/jeff560/1947sw.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. | | | I've been asked to do this since the person who should do it isn't around. | | | The link in the original post is for 1957, not 1947, by the way. |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=386277
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| | Smallpox and mass vaccination - New York City, 1947 |
| | Smallpox and mass vaccination - New York City, 1947 | | | Notes on an epidemic of smallpox in New York City - 1947 and the ensuing mass vaccination | | | In late March 1947, a man (Mr E. LaBar), infected in Mexico, developed hemorrhagic smallpox shortly after arriving in New York City. |
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http://www.med.uiuc.edu/m2/epidemiology/smallpox.htm
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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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| | The Myth of Separation of Church and State by Mathew Staver |
| | The problem has arisen when the Supreme Court in 1947 erroneously picked up the metaphor and attempted to construct a constitutional principal. | | | The phrase, "separation of church and state," has become one of these misfortunes of law. | | | In 1947 the Supreme Court popularized Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state." |
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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. | | | The league drew close to one million fans in 1947. | | | Philip K. Wrigley, the league founder, never actually attended any of the games. |
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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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| | LincMad's 1947 Area Code Map |
| | In 1947, Newfoundland and Labrador had not yet joined Canada; if you have information regarding their status in the original area code plan (were they part of 902?), please e-mail me. | | | 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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| | IMDb: Venice Film Festival: 1947 |
| | Odd Man Out (1947) - Carol Reed (I) | | | From 1947 to 1950 the Coppa Volpi is known as Premio internazionale al miglior attore/alla migliore attrice. | | | Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) - Hans Richter (II) |
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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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| | 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. | | | Biographical information found in Lake Crystal Tribune April 10, 1947, and in letters written by his children. | | | 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. |
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http://www.lib.mnsu.edu/lib/archives/fas/smhc167.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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| | Spinellis Informational [Page 6] RFC 1947 Greek Encoding for E-mail Messages May 1996 Security Considerations Security issues are not discussed in this memo. | | | 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. |
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| | Major League Baseball : History : World Series History |
| | Game 4 of the 1947 World Series was, at the time, a true sensation. | | | 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. | | | Notes: Cookie Lavagetto's two-run double with two out in the ninth inning of Game Four ended Yankee pitcher Bill Bevens' bid to throw the first no-hitter in Series history, and also brought Brooklyn a 3-2 victory. |
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| | 1947 |
| | 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. | | | His dramatic recording stayed at No. 2 on the hit parade for six weeks in 1947 and became a million seller. | | | Southern songstress Dinah Shore's version went to No. 1 the same year. |
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| | Baseball and Jackie Robinson - Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson (American Memory from the Library of ... |
| | The Sporting News, which had opposed blacks in the major leagues, gave Robinson its first Rookie of the Year Award in 1947. | | | Although some major league teams began to integrate right away, it was twelve years until the last major league team integrated in 1959. | | | Baseball fans and players reacted to Robinson with everything from unbridled enthusiasm evident in newspaper headlines, to wariness and open hostility expressed in beanball pitches and death threats. |
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | World Wide Hall of Fame |
| | 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. | | | FRANK FREDERICKSON (C) Here is how the final voting went: |
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| | Greatest Films of 1947 |
| | Odd Man Out (1947), 116 minutes, D: Carol Reed | | | A Double Life (1947), 103 minutes, D: George Cukor | | | Miracle on 34th Street (1947), 96 minutes, D: George Seaton |
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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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| | Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | 1947 |
| | Nolan ordered work done to enhance the lighting and replaced the mensas (tops) of the side altars. | | | 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. | | | 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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| | 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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| | eBay - 1947 all products at low prices |
| | Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy. | | | 332 matches found for '1947' in All Products | | | eBay - 1947 all products at low prices |
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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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