1912 Alfred Wegener, geophysicist/meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in lecture at Geological Association, Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt. He argues all the continents were once joined together in a single landmass & had since drifted apart.

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Fog Riders (1896) by Albert Welti (Swiss artist, lived 1862-1912).

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January 6, 1879, birthday of Swiss geologist Émile Argand 🎂 As an early supporter of Alfred Wegener (who will present his theory in 1912) , he used continental drift theory to explain the as overthrusted & deformed tectonic nappes ⛰️⛰️
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FRANCISCO ZÚÑIGA (1912-1998) - Mother and Child

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“Topology is not a metaphor, but a rigorous montage with the objet a.” JL
Oskar Kokoschka, Self Portrait dancing with Alma Mahler, 1913. Kokoschka began a tumultuous affair with Alma Mahler in 1912; the year after Gustav’s death. In 1914 Alma rejected him & married Walter Gropius

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Animals dressed as humans in "The Tortoise and the Hare", from an edition of Aesop's Fables illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1912

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The Death of the Year by Charles Sims, 1912

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Wagtail and Lotus, between 1912 and 1918, by Ohara Koson

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1912-1947年の間、兄(クリスチャン10世)がデンマーク国王、弟(ホーコン7世)がノルウェー国王として君臨していた時期があった

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Oberstdorf - Mountains / Alexej von Jawlensky, 1912.

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12月22日・命日
◆守屋 多々志≪満91歳没≫◆
[1912年8月10日〜2003年12月22日]
歴史画の第一人者。1967年に法隆寺金堂壁画の再現模写,1974年には高松塚古墳の壁画の保存模写にあたる。1979年『平家厳島納経』で芸術選奨文部大臣賞。2001年文化勲章。

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Doodle of the Day: Two Mechanics (1912), Ink and watercolour on paper, Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957). Wyndham Lewis was an artist and writer and cofounder of the Vorticist movement and is considered to have had a major influence on British art of his day.

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Ba-rah, Persian Dancer (1910-1912)

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Nudo di donna dai capelli rossi (1912)

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สึเคบุฟ้าจ๋าจาก ASHTERYA1912 v(^_^v)♪ กราบขอบแบบพระคุณพระพุทธพระธรรมพระสงฆ์ .ดิ้น

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