The rose had long enjoyed a position as a numismatic marker of Rhodes (see below); while the diadem had long been a symbol of Hellenic kingship, i.e. sole power.

Image: Rhodian didrachm: ANS 1944.100.48620. Link - https://t.co/5Z0E4JRBVq

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26 July 1944. First jet aircraft combat, Alfred Schreiber (11 November 1923 – 26 November 1944) flying a Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a intercepted and attacked a Mosquito PR XVI, a photo-reconnaissance aircraft from 540 Squadron RAF.

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this is from 1944... first of all we need to start saying "fen" again and second of all Literally Nothing Ever Changes

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Summertime. Charles Courtney Curran (American) 1861 - 1942. Blue and Gold, 1929. Charles Courtney Curran (American) 1861 - 1942, "Summer", 1906George Clausen (British) 1852 - 1944. Evening Song, 1893. Alphonse Maria Mucha (Czech painter) 1860 - 1939, "Summer"

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Michael Parkes is a painter, sculptor and lithographer. He was born in the United States in 1944.
“Last Lion”, 2015

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19 May 1944. First V1 flying bomb to be destroyed by being 'toppled' by the wingtip of a defending fighter, causing the missile to dive out of control, was attributed to a Supermarine Spitfire XIV, RB188/DL-K of 91 (Nigeria) Squadron, RAF, flown by Flying Officer Kenneth Collier.

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A German Mark IV Tank: August 1944, by C.A.Russell, August 1944.

© IWM Art.IWM ART LD 5563
https://t.co/sAlhV9pVaI

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Encounter, M. C. Escher, 1944.

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June 6, 1944.
Always remember.

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6 June 1944. A Republic P-47D Thunderbolt flies over Utah Beach on an escort mission.

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Raffinati e di stile classico gli affreschi di essi occupano l'abside orientale della chiesetta di Santa Maria Foris Portas, scoperti sotto scialbature e ridipinture nel 1944.
Una testimonianza della “rinascenza macedone”, che rivoluzionò l'arte medievale.

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Rafael Schächter was born on 27 May 1905. He made his name as an accompanist and vocal coach, working in opera and theatre before deportation to Terezin in Nov 1941. A pioneer of cultural life in the ghetto, he was deported to Auschwitz on 16 Oct 1944. https://t.co/BGNJGBcxjv

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Angular Landscape, ca.1944.
Harold Noecker. 1912-2002

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This recent Eddsworld illustration is a reference to George Herriman's iconic newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat, which ran from 1913 to 1944.

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"The Lions of the Vorontsov Palace, Alupka." Undated, by 1944. Watercolor on paper. Signed in Cyrillic on the lower right. Nikolai Samokish, painter (1860-1944). Born in Nizhyn, Ukraine. https://t.co/c0AC1OX4Va

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The Kawanishi H11 Soku, a large transport flying boat, designed in Japan, during 1944.
Aimed at moving large numbers of troops across long distances, it was still being developed when the prototype was destroyed by US aircraft in May 1945.

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