Before refrigerators, blocks of ice were cut from frozen rivers and ponds, and preserved in straw. [L: 'The Ice Harvest', Clarence Gagnon, ca. 1926. Private collection. R: 'Ice Cutting, Quebec City', Maurice Cullen, 1906, via .]

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Remembering dear old sod 'Regy’ Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke 1880-1960 born today 8 Sept 1880

Soldier, landowner, politician, husband of “Bee”.

Regy was the lover of Lois Sturt 1919-1926. Together they broke every rule in the book of verse.

So much more

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週あ
月あ

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'White Herons and Willow' - Shoson Ohara, 1926.

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Tsuguharu Foujita, "Chat Blanc, Fond Rouge", 1926.

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Tsuguharu Foujita, "Chat Blanc, Fond Rouge", 1926.
Quel artiste et quelle personnalité : fantastique, audacieux, hors normes, excentrique…

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editor and writer born this day on 1926. Thanks for your immortal work in comics. :)

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Son of a coal miner who would battle killer shrews and the Duke boys, actor James Best was born in 1926.

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A painting for the day: Portrait of John Forste (Man with Glass Eye), by George Grosz, 1926.

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Las flores en la pintura de los vanguardistas

Paul Klee. La planta y su enemigo. 1926.
Egon Schiele. Crisantemo amarillo. 1910.
Piet Mondrian. Lila azul. 1920.
Salvador Dalí. Rosa meditativa. 1958.

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Tanz Dore Hoye by Edmund Kesting, 1926.

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For Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "The Tempest," which he illustrated in 1926.

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Isaac Grünewald ,The Embrace,1926.

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Miles Davis was born on this date in 1926.

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Otto Griebel, Woman with Veil, 1926.

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" Edvard Munch "

' Oslo Bohemians '

c. 1925-1926.

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Maria Jeritza in the eponymous role of Turandot in Giacomo Puccini's opera, which premiered in Vienna in 1926.

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Happy Passover!
PHOTO: A matzah baker loads dough into an oven. Photo by Alter Kacyzne. Lida, March 14, 1926.

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