’s Catwoman 80th Anniversary covers makes this purrr-fect.

Selina Kyle’s “The Cat”, created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson, debuted in Batman on April 25, 1940. 🐈‍⬛📚

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15 September 1940. During the largest and most concentrated attack against London, Raymond Towers "Ray" Holmes of 504 Squadron RAF rammed his Hawker Hurricane into a Dornier 17Z he believed was going to bomb Buckingham Palace.

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14 September 1940. 23 year old Sergeant John Brimble, 73 Squadron, was posted missing. His Hurricane was shot down over Maidstone, Kent at 16:05hrs.

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Dom and Doughry is an American doughnut franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940.

Cat doughnut named Dom and a mouse doughnut named Doughry. Many shorts also feature several recurring doughnut characters.

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Paul Klee, 'Autumn Landscape with a Lake and Trees', 1902. Oil on Canvas Dancing Girl, 1940. Oil on cloth. "Fish Image", 1925. Zwillinge (Twins), 1930. Oil on canvas

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Ceferino Garcia, Filipino great who fought in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, holding a claim to the middleweight title from 1939 to 1940.

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Bethune Strategy, by Richard Harding Seddon (1915-2002), 1940.

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31 August 1940. Squadron Leader Tom Gleave of 253 Squadron attacking a Dornier Do217 above the village of Shoreham, north of Sevenoaks, Kent.

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Mel Blanc provided Woody Woodpecker's voice on a series of Capitol Records (1948-1955). He originated the voice in 1940.
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Barrage Balloons at Sea, Eric Ravilious, 1940. It dates from his early years as an Official War Artist in The original artwork is in the collection of .

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France, 1940. John Hanson, a cook in the British Army, but soon Hanson finds himself cut off by the sudden German Blitzkrieg. Only by applying all his skills, both culinary and military, can he escape the enemy and make it out of Europe alive! Issue 5573 out soon! - QM

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BATTLE of BRITAIN 21st. August 1940.

There were no casualties reported this day…except for
P/O M.P. Brown who was forced to return to base with a very unresponsive Spitfire.
FO. Maurice Peter Brown.
One of THE FEW.
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He survived the war...

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🌸🌸Hice una ilustración de Chony basándome en la pintura de Tade Styka de 1940.
Estoy tratando de mejorar un poquito en el color pero me base casi por completo.

Es mi pareja y lo dibuje todo diva igual que la ilustración del artista 🌸🌸

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Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny! The “Looney Tunes” cartoon character officially appeared in Tex Avery’s Oscar -nominated animated short “A Wild Hare” on July 27, 1940.

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その心地よい会場で本日流れている音楽は?先日≪日本であまり知られていない世界のSSW≫一人目に紹介したイタリアの故ファブリツィオ・デ・アンドレ(1940.2.18-1999.1.11)!写真はイタリア会館・福岡所蔵のコンプリートCDbox。全巻見応えあるフォトブック仕様で180分ライブDVD(1998)1枚付(但しPAL)。

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Fairy in Irises, Dora Wheeler, 1856–1940.

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Tamara de Lempicka, born Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska (Polish painter) 1898 - 1980, Escape, 1940. Le Coquillage, 1941. La Dormeuse (Kizette) I, 1933. Portrait de Mademoiselle Poum Rachou, 1933

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The Joker cracking up after he's been stabbed in the chest is a moment that goes pretty hard for a comic released in 1940. Love the little epitaph that Batman gives him too.

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Diana cazadora.
Władysław Roguski. 1890-1940.

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