A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Between 1948 and 1957 there were 15 hijackings worldwide, an average of a little more than one per year.

According to the current Nobel Committee head Lars Gillensten, his nominee was discussed every year from 1946 to 1950, then again in 1957 ( it was finally awarded in 1958 ).

In January 1957, the team left its winter training facility at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California for a ten year period.

In fall 1957, for example, nearly 36, 000 attended Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens and City Colleges for free, but another 24, 000 paid tuition of up to $ 300 a year — the equivalent of $ 2, 411. 98 in 2011.

He sold the rights to Wham-O on January 23, 1957 ( his 37th birthday ), and the following year, Morrison was awarded U. S. Design Patent D183, 626 for his flying disc.

Industrial production doubled from 1950 to 1957, and gross national product grew at a rate of 9 or 10 % per year, providing the engine for economic growth of all of Western Europe.

degree in geology from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and then spent a year for graduate studying geology at the University of Oslo in Norway.

In 1957, he won the NL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) Award, while that same year, the Braves won the World Series.

By March 1957, a full year after the release of " Please, Please, Please ", most members of the Famous Flames had left the group after the group's new manager, Universal Attractions Agency Chief Ben Bart, insisted that the group's billing be " James Brown and The Famous Flames ".

In 1993, the club won its first league title since 1967, and a year later, for the first time since 1957, it won a second consecutive title – alongside the FA Cup – to complete the first " Double " in the club's history.

Robert Burchfield was hired in 1957 to edit the second supplement ; Onions, who turned 84 that year, was still able to make some contributions as well.

From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year which usually included standards ( often arranged quite different from the original ), her own compositions, and material from young artists.

The name was chosen in an internal contest in 1957, the year of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.

Year 1957 ( MCMLVII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar.

After appearing in The Young in Heart with Paulette Goddard the following year, she left the film industry for nearly twenty years at the age of 32 in order to travel with her husband Adrian, returning one last time in 1957 as Pat Boone's mother in Bernadine.

The wettest year was 1957 with and the driest year was 1994 with.

Only one of the Little Rock Nine, Ernest Green, got the chance to graduate ; after the 1957 – 58 school year was over, the Little Rock school system decided to shut public schools completely rather than continue to integrate.

In 1957, this small port town was chosen to be the capital of the new country, and an ambitious building program was begun to increase its population to 15, 000, starting a year later.

Hopkins fell seriously ill during 1957, and was eventually replaced by Frank Pace later that year.

At the 1957 Worldcon it received the Hugo Award for Best Novel ( his first ) of the previous year.

The year 1957 also coincided with an acute shortage of mathematicians in the US.

He served only about a year before being exchanged for Rudolph Abel, a high-ranking KGB spy, who had been apprehended in the United States in 1957.

The record time for the race since 1957, the year in which the track was set at its current length of 1¼ miles, is 2: 01 4 / 5 set by Kinghaven Farms Izvestia in 1990.

Few other disciplines outside history deal with the time before year 1, exceptions being dendrochronology, archaeology and geology, the latter two of which use ' years before the present '.

" In his third year he transferred to anthropology and archaeology, both of which would later inform his poetry.

" In 1946, Gimbutas received a doctorate in archaeology, with minors in ethnology and history of religion, from Tübingen University with her dissertation " Prehistoric Burial Rites in Lithuania " ( in German ), which was published later that year.

Welcker returned to Giessen in 1808, and resuming his school-teaching and university lectures was in the following year appointed the first professor of Greek literature and archaeology at that or any German university.

The most important platform for students and researchers in quantitative archaeology and AI science is the international conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology ( CAA ) which has been in existence for more than 30 years now and is held in a different city of Europe each year.

Tradition, mythology and archaeology strongly suggest these people arrived in El Salvador around the year A. D. 1000 as a result of the collapse of the Tala.

Faversham has a highly active archaeological society and a series of community archaeology projects are run every year.

The year 1892 in archaeology involved some significant events.

The year 1937 in archaeology involved some significant events.

The year 1890 in archaeology:

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The year 1865 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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The year 1926 saw a number of significant events in the field of archaeology:

The year 1938 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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The year 1981 in archaeology involved some significant events.

The year 2004 in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below.

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The year 1831 CE in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below.

The year 1877 in archaeology involved some significant events.