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SPLASHDOWN IN THE GULF OF AMERICA by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the WHITE HOUSE BRIEFS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore splashed down inside an Elon Musk SpaceX Dragon capsule after months of being left in space. The eyes of the world watched the dramatic return into blue waters off the coast of northern Florida, March 18, 2025.

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BAHRAIN AT THE GRAND MOSQUE by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com Red and white flag of Bahrain flies above the Al Fateh Grand Mosque in Manama, Bahrain. Encompassing 6,500 square metres (70,000 sq ft), with the capacity to accommodate over 7,000 worshippers, it was one of the largest mosques in the world. The mosque was built by the late Sheikh Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa in 1987 and was named in honour of Ahmed Al Fateh.

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES BESIDE THE MOSQUE by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com The U.A.E. flag flies above the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. The country's largest mosque, completed in 2007, was built by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to embody the Islamic message of peace, tolerance and diversity.

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QATAR FROM THE TOWER OF THE MOSQUE by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com Qatar's maroon and white flag flies behind the Spiral Mosque, completed in 2008, in Doha, Qatar's capital. The mosque was named after the famous Qatari Islamic scholar and the founder of the Qatari judicial system Sheikh Abdulla bin Zaid Al-Mahmoud. The name was given by the Emir of Qatar to commemorate his achievements as the supreme judge of Qatar.

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SAUDI ARABIA AT THE TOP OF THE MOSQUE by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com The green flag of Saudi Arabia flies above the Sacred Mosque or the Great Mosque of Mecca, considered to be the most significant mosque in Islam. It is among the pilgrimage sites associated with the Hajj, which every Muslim must perform at least once in their lives if able. Built in 638AD, with a capacity of 3,000,000, and a site area of 356,000 square metres, or 88 acres.

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MONTICELLO THE HOME OF THOMAS JEFFERSON by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the USA Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States. Jefferson began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at the age of 14. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, Jefferson designed the main house using neoclassical design principles pioneered by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

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THREE HORSEMEN ON BOSTON AVENUE by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the ARCHITECTURE Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com The Art Deco Boston Avenue United Methodist Church of Tulsa, Oklahoma, completed in 1929 by Bruce Goff from a design by Adah Robinson, highlighted with terra cotta sculpture by Robert Garrison.

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NORWAY BEYOND THE STAVE CHURCH by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com Norway's flag stands tall above the Heddal Stave Church, a parish church of the Church of Norway in Notodden Municipality in Telemark county in the village of Heddal. The wooden, triple nave stave church was built in a long church design around the year 1200. The church is one of the 28 surviving stave churches in Norway and it is considered to be the largest of the stave churches constructed entirely out of wood and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

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INDIA REFLECTING THE TAJ MAHAL by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com The flag of India flies behind the Taj Mahal 'Crown of the Palace' an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself.

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HUNGARY REFLECTING ON THE DANUBE by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com Hungary's tricolor flag arises behind the Hungarian Parliament Building on the eastern bank of the Danube River in Budapest. Designed by Hungarian architect Imre Steindl, the neo-Gothic building, completed in 1902, was influenced by the gothic Vienna City Hall and the Maria vom Siege church also in Vienna.

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SALUTE TO 250: 1776 – 2026 White House Briefs by ELIOT RAFFIT DigitalArtist Fine Art Painting www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com We as a nation will begin honoring the historic anniversary of our independence in a year-long celebration commencing Memorial Day, 2025. Throughout all 50 states, our Salute to 250 will culminate with parades, patriotism, and fireworks, July 4, 2026, as together we celebrate our 250-Year Anniversary.

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Happy President's Day! OLD GLORY DRAPES 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE by ELIOT RAFFIT from the Washington Collection Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com The United States of America celebrates its 47 Presidents on the third Monday of February. 47 in 250 years as we celebrate American Exceptionalism and The New Golden Age during America's Second Revolution.

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Happy President's Day! www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com The United States of America celebrates its 47 Presidents on the third Monday of February. 47 in 250 years as we celebrate American Exceptionalism and The New Golden Age during America's Second Revolution.

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GERMANY AT THE GATE by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com Germany's tricolor flag rises above the Brandenburg Gate an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin. The current structure was built from 1788 to 1791 by orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, based on designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. The bronze sculpture of the quadriga crowning the gate is a work by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.

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GREECE BY THE MEDITERRANEAN by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com The blue and white Greek flag flies over the Island of Santorini in the Mediterranean Sea. Santorini was named by the Latin Empire in the thirteenth century as a reference to Saint Irene, from the name of the old church in the village of Perissa, a contraction of the name Santa Irini.

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ISRAEL ATOP THE TOWER OF DAVID by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com The blue and white Israeli flag flies atop the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, believed to be the site of King David's Palace.