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Mar 26 1917 #OTD saw an Ottoman victory at the First Battle of Gaza. This Regimental Standard was presented to the defenders of Gaza, who repulsed the first British attack, 1917.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13709-00116 (digital file from original on page 33, no.115)
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'The Mad Mulrannies' / Harry Clarke.
1917.
Illustration to J. M. Synge’s 'The Playboy of the Western World'.
Pen and ink on Bristol board.
Reproduced in Crampton Walker’s 'Irish Life and Landscape' (1927) with facsimile of Harry's autograph.
The Norwegian poet Herman Wildenvey by painter Isaac Grünewald (1889-1946), Sweden, 1917.
Zinaida Serebryakova - Bleaching Cloth, 1917. Oil on canvas, 142 х 175.5 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
@GrimArtGroup - on a very dreary Feb day here - some C R W Nevinson. "Loading the ship" lithograph illustration from 'Colour' magazine, 1917. #GrimArt #illustration #docks #workers
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Hunting Party - Bristol F2B, Lieutenant Keith Park leading, 1917. Art by Lee Lacey.
From my series, #Whence, about my immigrant ancestors. Thomas O’Keeffe had a bad heart but a love for military life. He lived here in 1917. #providence #rhodeisland
18 January 1917. The SS15 dirigible with a BE2c cupola, was sent out from Pembroke hunting U-boats in the Bristol Channel. Crashed in bad weather off Lundy.
Italy, 1917. An art collector finds three unusual statues in a small museum in Aquileia. They appear to represent angels with insect wings, pincers, and extra sets of limbs.
Entranced by them, he would acquire the sculptures for his personal collection.
'Puddings for Fritz.' Pte John Griffiths, Liverpool Irish, Liverpool Courier cartoon competition, Dec 1917.
Cover art for books by Arthur C. Clarke, born this day in 1917. Illustrations by Michael Whelan, Luigi Garonzi, Bruce Pennington, and Vincent Di Fate.
The #ElectoralCollege
—The contested 1876 Presidential election brought Senators, and the electoral certificates, into the House on Feb 12, 1877; Rutherford Hayes was declared winner March 2.
—Vice President Marshall receives the California vote for President Wilson, Jan 1917.
Garé Barks, #BOTD in 1917. Born Margaret Wynnfred Williams, she married Carl Barks in 1954. She was a very accomplished landscape artist & often assisted her husband on his duck stories.
Dovrei raccontare un po’ di mio padre
Era nato il #primodicembre del 1917...
Una generazione sfortunata, cos’altro si può dire...
Il nostro paese ben presto sarebbe sprofondato nel pantano della guerra con la Cina
#Murakami #AbbandonareUnGatto
Per @diconodioggi
'The Passing of the Soul at Death' was probably one of the last pictures Evelyn De Morgan #madeinChelsea
It was probably painted at a similar time to the death of William De Morgan, as the imagery is very similar to the gravestone which she designed for them both in 1917.