Today’s gun is one that competed in trials for Japanese military adoption. The Tokyo Arsenal Model 1927. The submachine gun with a myriad of magazine options would ultimately fail at trials catastrophically and it is unknown if any surviving models exist.

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La Sandía. Esa fruta tan veraniega y tan moderna 😂😂
Igual con 44 de ellas pasais el verano!!

Naturaleza Muerta con Sandias. Frida Khalo. 1953
Still Life. Watermelons. Salvador Dalí. 1924.
Sandías y naranjas. Fernando Botero. 1970
A Slice of Watermelon. Louis Marcoussis. 1927

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in 1927 Catalan actress & director Margarita Xirgu staged & starred in 'Mariana Pineda', an early play by Lorca; she later produced many more. Xirgu—a lesbian & political radical—was nicknamed 'Margarita the Red' & seen as a threat to Franco’s regime. https://t.co/1G7GfFkAfm

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Born on this day in 1927. Happy Birthday !!!

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Portrait of Alicia Galant, 1927

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by Gianluigi Giudici (1927-2012)

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現美の「コレクションを巻き戻す」展の「臨海学校」(1927年、鈴木昇一)。藁でつくったテントは楽しそう、砂に埋められる子、ボートではしゃぐ子、どの時代にもいるおちゃらけ小僧。

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'Figurine: Kleiner Fürtüfel' by Paul Klee (1927)

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"Le baiser" 1927 Marie Laurencin
"Elle peint surtout des figures féminines, dont les traits s’estompent dans le blanc du visage, où les yeux toujours très noirs et une bouche bien rose semblent flotter. Ses tableaux reflètent son penchant pour les femmes"
https://t.co/PGfqu6j8YT

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&
"We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end."
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

🖌Nora Heysen 🇦🇺 Eggs, 1927

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"The Road Through The Rocks". Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1927.

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映画館チェーン経営や映画配給を手掛ける傍ら、アートフィルムの主流化に尽力したDonald S. Rugoff(1927-1989)の生涯を追った、Ira Deutchman監督のドキュメンタリー映画"Searching For Mr. Rugoff"(2019年)の予告編が公開されたようだ。 https://t.co/ALLgn8BFqs (Deadline)

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🌏 The Birds of Australia
London: Witherby & Co., 1910-1927.
https://t.co/6FHwOqIqg8

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6月15日は、妙高型2番艦重巡洋艦「那智」の進水日。(1927年)
誕生日おめでとう。
  

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프랑스 국민만화 아스테릭스를 그린 알베르 우데르조(1927-2020). 다지증(여섯손가락)에 색맹으로 태어났으며 한번도 그림을 배운적이 없다고 하는데, 10살 때 그린 만화와 노트필기를 보면 어딘가 마음이 얼얼해진다 (+ 23세 때 삽화). 32살에 아스테릭스를 그린 후 은퇴까지 펜을 놓지 않았다.

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Eveline Jenkins was a botanical artist (1927-1959) . She taught herself to make realistic wax models of plants & fungi for gallery displays. These sketchbook pages show how she meticulously planned the shape and colour of the models

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Frida Kahlo, Portrait of Alicia Galant, 1927

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There's a partial solar eclipse today, it starts at 10.08am and will reach maximum at 11.14am

From here's photos of an eclipse in 1927: A party in Royston and a view of Penistone

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