We will not forget what happened at this time in 1940.

21 294

🍃🎋💐🎨Butterfly Violet, Mary Vaux Walcott, 1860-1940. Butterfly Violet, 1923, watercolor on paper. In 1925, the Smithsonian published some 400 of her illustrations, accompanied by brief descriptions, in a five-volume work entitled North American Wild Flowers.

0 1

Willem Haenraets. He was born in Heerlen, The Netherlands, on October 9, 1940. "With soft colors, the artist evokes a world of beautiful romantic illusion on his canvases."

47 142

Continuing on the Batman '66 kick with Cesar Romero as The Joker! Not coincidentally, this March is the 80th anniversary of The Joker's first appearance in Batman March, 1940. Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker!

0 1

Continuing on the Batman '66 kick with Cesar Romero as The Joker! Not coincidentally, this March is the 80th anniversary of The Joker's first appearance in Batman March, 1940. Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker!

0 0

The film was released in February of 1940. Because war was already raging in Europe, Pinocchio didn’t recoup is $2.2 million budget in its initial release. And subsequently Walt felt the film that was one of his greatest achievements was a failure.

2 9

【パズドラ】未だにバクラバクラ言ってる奴wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhttp://pazdra2ch.blog.jp/archives/54450940.html

0 0

Four ponds by John Nash.
Clockwise from top left to bottom left: Mill Pond Evening, 1933. The Farm Pond, 1940. Walled Pond, Little Bredy, Dorset, 1923. Ashby's Pond, 1937.

10 28

29 February 1940. An attack by 20+ Polikarpov I-153 and Polikarpov I-16 fighters on the Finnish Air Force airfield at Ruoholahti is the most successful Soviet Air Force strike of the Winter War. Surprising the Finns on the ground, the Soviets shoot down … https://t.co/o4aTGVcUVS

2 3

These progressively zoomed-in maps identify places in the US that had an active chapter of a particular private organization comprised of ordinary citizens between 1915 and 1940. Look at the maps and make your guess as to what that organization was...answer in next tweet.

768 1302

Peter Fonda February 23, 1940. Actor, activist, counterculture icon and seriously influential filmmaker.



"The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me."
Peter Fonda

6 29

“When the pinch comes the common people will turn out to be more intelligent than the clever ones. I certainly hope so.”

George Orwell, 1940.

77 150

The Handley-Page Hampden has always fascinated me, an early WW 2 RAF medium bomber, with a very narrow fuselage. This earned it the nickname, the'Flying Suitcase', but it had a certain 'grace' and apparently very flew well. Check out the contemporary cutaway drawing from 1940.

11 61

Happy 80th anniversary to The film premiered in New York February 7, 1940. In February 23, 1940, Pinocchio could be seen across the United States.

6 14

Celebrating H.R. Giger on his birthday - February 5, 1940.

56 217

"I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next." George A. Romero, born in 1940.

42 114

Fun fact. Dick Grayson, Catwoman and Joker will all be turning 80 this year, as they were introduced in 1940. So celebrate your favourite Gothamites with this art gallery!

2 6