"The book is not a kitchen accessory."
Soviet propaganda poster, 1926.

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"Do not cut out pages and drawings."
Soviet propaganda poster, 1926.

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"Protect the book from rain and snow."
Soviet propaganda poster, 1926.

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"Do not read while eating"
Soviet propaganda poster, 1926.

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Remembering American film and television actor Peter Graves on his birthday, born March 18, 1926.

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Gunta Stölzl - 4. When a picture says more than words. Gunta Stölzl was appointed “master" of the Bauhaus weaving workshop in 1926. Here she is on the roof of the new Bauhaus Dessau in a commemorative photo for its opening with her all-male colleagues.
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"Sorry, but your planet's banned from entry..."

The First Men In The Moon, by H G Wells. Amazing Stories, December 1926.

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Johan Dijkstra ,1896-1978 ,Groningen Portrait of a man ,1926.

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Alexander Archipenko - 1926.

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In memory......💔😢 Portrait of Ida Karnovski sitting in her room in the Kovno ghetto.

Ida Karnovski was born in December 1926...She was killed at the age of eighteen, along with her mother and aunt, when the Germans set the ghetto on fire in July, 1944. ( Yad Vashem )

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Alfred Courmes 1898-1993 French artist, son of a Navy officer who supported his art inclinations Cubist and realist classical and surrealist Dubbed the angel of bad taste by his enemies. Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim 1926. Social and anticlerical themes parody of publicity imagery

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Celebrating today - the fictional anthropomorphic bear created by English author A.A. Milne in 1926.

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"Having a Jolly Time at Bexhill-on-Sea." Postcard c.1926. I'm struggling with the idea that 1920 is now 100 years ago. This is mid-decade as The Kursaal (shown inset on "The Parade") has its terrible 1925 roof.

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Here’s an illustration from Armstrong Sperry’s ‘Cast Alive into the Molten Heart of a Volcano’ from 1926. There’s a sacrifice and lava, but it’s an actual volcano rather than what I would consider a “pit.”

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Illustration by Martha Lopez, 1926.

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'The Magician' - Rex Ingram, 1926. Based on Somerset Maugham's book of the same name it features a magician named Oliver Haddo - inspired by Aleister Crowley - whom Maugham knew through the painter Gerald Kelly. Once considered a 'lost film', it is now available on DVD

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さんのお誕生日
(1926.12.25.生)
1956年、ハナ肇とクレージーキャッツに参加。「お呼びでない?こりゃまた失礼いたしました」のギャグや、歌手として「スーダラ節」、映画「ニッポン無責任時代」で注目を集めた。


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'The Retired Colourman' the 58th story in the Canon, first appeared in Liberty 1926.

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Pippo Rizzo (1897–1964), Treno notturno in corsa Night 🚇 running, 1926.

Last train

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