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Fred Lyon

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Portrait of a Young Man Wearing a Black Doublet with a Large White Collar, Attributed to Guillaume Courtois, called Guglielmo Cortese

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Taipei, Taiwan

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The ocean liner Normandie lies heavily tilting at Pier 88, at 49th Street, on February 10, 1945, after a massive fire broke out aboard the former French Line ship. Seized by the U.S. government, the Normandie was in New York for refittings for military duty and was about to start its service as the USS Lafayette troop carrier when the fire broke out. Due to the pressure of being top-heavy from the fire-fighting water, the ship snapped her mooring lines and capsized.

Photo: Associated Press

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Gdańsk

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“US troops on an ocean liner, returning to New York harbor at the end of World War 2”

This is the RMS Queen Elizabeth pulling into NewYork with returning US Servicemen in 1945

She sailed from Gourock in Scotland on August 6 1945 arriving at New York on August 11 1945. Some of the servicemen could therefore be Ground Echelon of 492 Bomber Group.

The Queen Elizabeth together with the Queen Mary were used as troopships in the Second World War. Their great carrying capacity and speeds of over 28 knots were a huge asset to the Allies. The Queen Elizabeth, (carrying capacity over 15,000 troops and over 900 crew), was to carry 750,000 troops in total and she to travel over 500,000 miles.

(Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK)

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The name „Wassily Chair“ comes from the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was Breuer’s close friend and colleague at the Bauhaus. It is often reported that Kandinsky admired the chair when he saw it during a visit to Breuer’s studio and Breuer gave him a chair as a gift.

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The Blue Dragon river seen from space

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SUGAR RAY ROBINSON Photo by Al Fenn 1942

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Reichstag Fire 1933

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The Temple of Apollo - Papaioannou Voula Th. 1950

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Bouquet d’Arbres, Sweden, Photo by Arno Rafael Minkkien, 2007