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Box office. $3,980,000 [2] Above and Beyond is a 1952 American World War II film about Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. Directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it stars Robert Taylor as Tibbets and features a love story with Eleanor Parker as his wife.
10,000–12,000 killed (modern estimate) [1] [2] The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal —to ...
Yosemite. (AD-19) USS Yosemite (AD-19) was a Dixie -class destroyer tender built during World War II for the U.S. Navy. Her task was to service destroyers in, or near, battle areas and to keep them fit for duty. The fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, Yosemite was laid down on 19 January 1942 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company at Tampa ...
Italy is the world's sixth-largest manufacturing country, [340] characterised by a smaller number of global multinational corporations than other economies of comparable size and many dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises, clustered in several industrial districts, which are the backbone of Italian industry.
Budget. $682,580 [1] Box office. $1.6 million (US rentals) [2] Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1952 American family comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and featuring Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford and Barbara Brown. It is a comic retelling of the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale, produced by Abbott and Costello and distributed ...
Crab Nebula. The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The common name comes from a drawing that somewhat resembled a crab with arms produced by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, in 1842 or 1843 using a 36-inch (91 cm) telescope. [6]
The Ceylon–China Trade Agreement of 1952, also known as the Rubber-Rice Pact, was an international trade agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Dominion of Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka ), signed on 18 December 1952 and lasting for 30 years. It proved to be the cornerstone of the early years of diplomatic relations between ...
