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| 1952 |
| | | British scholar Michael Ventris deciphers Linear B, the script of Mycenae, proving it to be an early form of Greek | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Evelyn Waugh publishes Men at Arms, the first novel in the Sword of Honour trilogy based on his wartime experiences | |
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| 1952 |
| | | In his novel East of Eden John Steinbeck develops the biblical theme of Cain and Abel in a family saga set in California | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US clergyman Norman Vincent Peale has a best-seller in The Power of Positive Thinking | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Vaughan Williams bases his seventh symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, on his score for the film Scott of the Antarctic | |
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| 1952 |
| | | An outbreak of terrorism in Kenya is orchestrated by a secret Kikuyu organization, the Mau Mau | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US composer John Cage's 4'33" consists of precisely that number of minutes and seconds of silence | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower wins the US presidential election with Richard Nixon as his vice-president | |
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| 1952 |
| | | The Modern Jazz Quartet, led by pianist John Lewis, plays in the sophisticated style that becomes known as 'cool jazz' | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Le Corbusier's completes his most massive modernist development, the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles | |
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