1 June 1944. Men from 3 Commando keeping fit, before D-Day.

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The Battle for Merville Battery, June 1944. Illustration for the second edition of the boardgame "Heroes of Normandie - Big Red One edition" by Devil Pig Games.

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A bit of Humber LRC art for your Monday morning!

ATS electricians and fitters, REME workshops at Ashford, 1944.
Watercolour by Stella Schmolle.

Art.IWM ART LD 3764

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Happy

Mother and Child: Sheila (Sheila), JD Fergusson, 1944.

This painting was inspired by a personal friend of Fergusson's and teacher of Margaret Morris's pupils, Sheila O'Shaunessy. The setting for the picture was Glasgow Botanical Gardens.

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Another Nazi SS mountain climber Heinrich Harrer fled British India to escape to Tibet in 1944. He wrote autobiographical account Seven Years in Tibet which was later adapted into Hollywood film starring Brad Pitt

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The Fourth Century saw an expansion of the coin designs and the commencement of the gold stater series with an Obverse dominated by a portrait of a satyr wearing an ivy wreath as on our coin here.

Image: Obverse of ANS 1944.100.26248

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Ancient Coin of the Day: Sometimes you’ve just got to embrace the shiny – today’s thread begins with this glorious gold stater from Panticapaeum in the Tauric Chersonese, ca. 370-350 BC.



Image: ANS 1944.100.26248. Link – https://t.co/PSrTU1xxNB

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Óscar Domínguez 'Teléfono y Revolver' 1944.

currently being auctioned on ArtNet

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October 25th, 1944.
Remember the date.

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Asger Jorn (Danish, 1914-1973) To Verdener (Both Worlds), 1944..

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清霜 進水日おめでとう!
1944.2.29

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22/2/1944 -U550 Damaged by Canso aircraft from 162 Squadron , South of Iceland. -Four Depth Charges were dropped on the U-Boat, killing two sailors. U-550 was sunk later on this patrol on 16 April 1944.

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That the Pegasus came to be seen as something of a personal device for Mithridates VI is suggested by this pro-Pontic Athenian tetradrachm minted by Aristion and Philon in ca. 97-96 BC.

Image: ANS 1944.100.24839. Link - https://t.co/c0rAdMI8Jj

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September 1944. A beauty. A Seafire XV, a naval version of the Spitfire.

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As one of Nigeria's earliest feminists, Oyinkan M. Abayomi is illustrated on the front cover of my new e-Book👇. A chapter narrates the commencement of her socio-political activism from her home on 18, Broad Street in Lagos in 1944.

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Edvard Munch died in 1944. Here's my appropriation of his most famous work, reflecting these interesting times in which we live...

"So, to sum up..."

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My homage 2 Edvard Munch, who died 1944. I have omitted that painting, as striking though it is, I believe there’s more to him than it offers. Besides, I want 2 celebrate his other work & the stories they tell. He also enjoyed photography & took some very impressive selfies.

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Used Kit:
35290 T-34/85 w/D-5T. PLANT 112. SPRING 1944. INTERIOR KIT
https://t.co/ogGz6Qsry2
Author: Peter Robinson
Source: https://t.co/UL7avIfpxr

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War Damage Report for USS Canberra (CA-70) after taking a torpedo off Formosa, October 13th, 1944. [7746x3646] from /u/JimDandy_ToTheRescue at https://t.co/QabbXnyjrJ

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1944.『ポッダとポッディ』
    シビル・ウェッタシンハ 作
    松岡享子 訳
    福音館書店

貧乏なポッダとポッディ。のんびりやのポッダが買った玉ねぎをせっかちのポッディが捨てたけれども、その玉ねぎが育ったのを見て2人は野菜作りを始めます。偶然だけど、良かったね!#絵本

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