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unusual facts about 1949-51 Soviet nuclear tests


1949-51 Soviet nuclear tests

By Beria's instruction, this was an exact copy of the USA's Fat Man from stolen plans.


Aldredge

Sawnie R. Aldredge (1890–1949), American lawyer, judge and politician

Alfred Rehder

Alfred Rehder (4 September 1863, Waldenburg, Saxony - 25 July 1949) was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal (British title: The Contact Man) is a 1949 film retelling of the Faust myth directed by John Farrow and starring Ray Milland, Audrey Totter and Thomas Mitchell (although third-billed, Mitchell plays the leading role).

Baoni State

The last governor, Muhammad al-Hasan Mushtaq, signed the document of accession to India August 15, 1947 and continued to rule the state that joined the Union of States of Vindhya Pradesh on April 2 of 1948 and remained as head of the state until December 31, 1949.

Basil Radford

They appeared together in several other 1940s films, including Crook's Tour (1941), Millions Like Us (1943), Dead of Night (1945), Quartet (1948), It's Not Cricket (1949) and Passport to Pimlico (1949).

Ben Krentzman

After being discharged from the Army in 1946 he returned to Clearwater, where he remained in private practice until 1967, serving as town attorney for the Town of Largo from 1946 to 1956, city attorney for the City of Clearwater from 1949 to 1950 and again from 1956 to 1958, and special counsel for the State Road Department from 1960 to 1963.

Blossom Elfman

"Blossom," as she is known, and Milton are the parents of writer, director and publisher Richard Elfman, born March 2, 1949, and musician and composer Danny Elfman, born May 29, 1953.

Bob Frankston

Robert (Bob) M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

Camillo Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Candriano

Camillo dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, January 10, 1882 – Havana, September 5, 1949), was the 2nd and last Principe di Candriano, son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, and second wife Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella, Duchi di Lavello, Marchesi di Bella.

Chantal de Chevron-Villette

Chantal married Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, only son of Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro and his wife Countess Maria Carolina Zamoyska, on 23 July 1949 in Giez.

Cometti

Dennis Cometti (born 1949), a former Australian rules football player and coach

Dina Cocea

The partnership lasted for 8 years but was dissolved by circumstance when the Comedia theater was nationalized in 1948-1949.

DRG Class 61

In 1947 it had a general inspection and on 23 October 1948 it was stationed in Bebra, where it was in regular service until May 1949.

East Turkestan Republic

Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1949), Soviet-backed Turkic people's republic in northern Xinjiang

Eldon Nelson

On February 28, 1949 at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida he rode Calumet's future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame colt Coaltown to a win that equalled the world record of 1:47 3/5 for a mile-and-an-eighth on dirt.

Francisco Martín Borque

Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.

Frédéric Dorion

In 1949, Dorion spoke out against the extradition from Canada of Count Jacques Charles Noel Duge de Bernonville, a Vichy France police official who had been an aide to Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and was wanted in France for having collaborated with the Nazis.

Guy Bourdin

During his military service in Dakar (1948–1949), he received his first photography training as a cadet in the French Air Force.

HMCS Prevost

In August 1949 one 112 foot Fairmile, HMCS Racoon, converted to diesel power, replaced the two Harbor Craft.

Ignacio Barrios

Despite studying for seven months at the San Carlos Academy (1948), for one year (1948–1949) at the La Esmeralda School of Painting and Sculpturing, where he was the student of the renowned muralist Raúl Anguiano, Ignacio Barrios is, in strict terms, a self-taught artist who is constantly striving to renovate and remodel his work.

J. D. Chesswas

Chesswas was employed by the Luganda Language Board as a teacher of Luganda when, in 1949, the Government for the Uganda Protectorate began to offer free courses in Luganda to any officer wishing to take up the study.

Josy Gyr-Steiner

Josy Gyr-Steiner (10 October 1949 – 18 April 2007) was a Swiss politician from the Canton of Schwyz and member of the Swiss National Council (2003–2007).

Kathy Calvin

Kathryn Bushkin Calvin (born July 16, 1949) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation.

Late betting

In addition, Came a Hot Friday, set in 1949, and starring Peter Bland, showed a less elaborate practice of past posting, but in this case, the ruse all went wrong.

Madame le Corbeau

On September 9, 1949, Rita Guay was scheduled to board Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, at L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Quebec City, Quebec, where it made a scheduled stopover during a flight from Montreal to Baie-Comeau.

Magnolia Station Lofts

The distribution center moved to Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas in 1949.

Millowitsch

Peter Millowitsch (born 1949), German actor and current director of Volkstheater Millowitsch

Mus Sema

Muslimin Gampong Sema (born April 27, 1949), also known as Mus or The Peacemaker, is a Filipino politician who has been the current Vice Mayor of Cotabato City since June 2010.

Oeki Hoekema

Uilke Piebe ("Oeki") Hoekema (born 28 January 1949 in Leeuwarden) is a retired Dutch football player who played for Go Ahead Eagles, PSV, De Graafschap, Lierse SK, ADO Den Haag and FC Wageningen, as well as the Dutch national side.

Paul Pettit

In 1949, movie producer Frederick Stephani was looking to make a baseball movie but could not afford the story of an established star.

Puppetoons

Pal also used the Puppetoon name and the general Puppetoon technique for miniature puppet characters in some of his live-action feature films, including The Great Rupert (1949), Tom Thumb (1958), and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1963).

Ralph Flanagan

By 1949 he formed a very successful orchestra which is credited with re-popularizing the Glenn Miller "sound," and which made many records, among them "Singing Winds","Rag Mop" and "Hot Toddy." The Ralph Flanagan band was managed by Herb Hendler, an RCA A&R man who had signed Glenn Miller to his final record contract before Miller's fatal plane crash in the English Channel during World War II.

Ralph Renick

Renick joined WTVJ as an intern in 1949 after graduation from the University of Miami, where he studied under an H. V. Kaltenborn Scholarship.

Ray Steele

Peter Sauer (1900-1949), used the ring name while wrestling in America

Ricardo Valencia

Nicknamed el Chilenito (the little Chilean), Santa Ana-born and raised Ricardo Valencia joined the newly formed team FAS in 1949.

Ricatus

R. A. Stewart Macalister in his Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum published in 1949 stated that an inscription in a panel on the side of the cross read REGIS RICATI CRUX, translating to "Cross of King Ricatus".

Roberto Busa

In 1949 he met with Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, and was able to persuade him to sponsor the Index Thomisticus.

Ronald Eric Johnstone

Ronald Eric Johnstone (born 1949) is an Australian ornithologist who worked for the Western Australian Museum for many years.

Ruby Wright

A CD of Wright's recordings, which contained a total of 27 songs, is entitled Ruby Wright Regular Girl (The King Recordings 1949-1959).

Ruth Ann Steinhagen

According to an Associated Press report released on June 15, 1949, Steinhagen told police that she told Waitkus when he entered, "I have a surprise for you", before retrieving a .22

Sally Macintyre

Dame Sally Macintyre DBE FRSE (born 1949) is a Scottish sociologist and scientist.

Shlomo Shamir

Instead he served other capacities, eventually becoming the third Commander of the Israeli Navy in May 1949.

Steven Taylor

Steven W. Taylor (born 1949), American politician, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice

Tom Bergin's

Originally opened on Wilshire Boulevard in 1936 by lawyer Tom Bergin, it has been at its current location on Fairfax Avenue since 1949.

Wanda Landowska

She settled in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1949, and re-established herself as a performer and teacher in the United States, touring extensively.

Warren J. Ferguson

Upon return, he earned his J.D. from University of Southern California in 1949.

Willie Brossart

William James Brossart (born May 29, 1949 in Allan, Saskatchewan) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Washington Capitals

Worm-like chain

O. Kratky, G. Porod (1949), "Röntgenuntersuchung gelöster Fadenmoleküle." Rec. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas. 68: 1106-1123.

Yves Duteil

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family.

Zhang Junmai

Opposed to the Chinese communists, but also dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's (also spelled Jiang Jieshi) noncompliance with the constitution, Zhang Junmai went to the United States after 1949.


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