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D-day 6 June 1944
France, Canada, UK, USA
Normandy landings
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Source: Victory in the West vol.1 p.168 (HMSO 1962), digitised by The National Archives (UK) Post-Work: User:W.wolny Licence: CrownCopyright but usable due to List of UK government departments we can use
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German prisoners of war captured after the D-Day landings in Normandy being guarded by American troops at a camp in Nonant-le-Pin in August 1944.
Photograph: U.S. National Archives, via Reuters
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time As the number of surviving veterans dwindles, the old pillars of trans-Atlantic certainty have begun to tremble. The New York Times June 6, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/
Descriptif du document: Deux femmes traversent la ville en ruines. Elles portent leurs maigres possessions.
Au premier plan, les vestiges des Bains Douches.
Mention obligatoire: Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / Archives Nationales du CANADA Référence du document: p000011 Période du document: Seconde Guerre Mondiale Date du document: 17 août 1944 Localité présente dans le document: FALAISE 14700 Calvados France http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/specificPhoto.php?ref=p000011
Locals walking through ruins of the heavily bombed city of St. Lo.
Location: Saint Lo, Normandy, France
Date taken: August 1944
Photograph: Frank Scherschel (1907-1981)
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/641cfe9b18fa9776.html
American Army chaplin giving Eucharist & Last Rites to a wounded soldier
Location: Normandy, France
Date taken: August 1944
Photograph: Frank Scherschel (1907-1981)
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/580bae6eaac239c2.html
American soldiers guarding German prisoners captured near the town of Le Gast during the fight for the Normandy area.
Location: Normandy, France
Date taken: August 1944
Photograph: Frank Scherschel (1907-1981)
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/fecad6e2891b05ba.html
Descriptif du document: Des parachutistes allemands morts dans une charrette.
Mention obligatoire: Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / National Archives USA Référence du document: p012371 Période du document: Seconde Guerre Mondiale Date du document : Seconde guerre mondiale http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/PhotosHD/p012371.jpg http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/specificPhoto.php?ref=p012371 http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/index.html
Group of American soldiers looking at body of German soldier amidst piles of equipment after troop truck he was riding in took a direct hit.
Location: Cherbourg, Normandy, France
Date taken: July 1944
Photograph: Bob Landry (1913-c. 1960)
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/8c61e91b77b1d729.html
Canadian troops patroling after German forces were dislodged from Caen in July 1944.
Photograph: National Archives of Canada, via Reuters
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time As the number of surviving veterans dwindles, the old pillars of trans-Atlantic certainty have begun to tremble. NYT June 6, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/
Un couple d'habitants regarde un bulldozer canadien déblayant les ruines de maisons détruites, rue de Bayeux, à Caen.
En arrière-plan, les deux clochers de l'abbaye aux Hommes sont restés intacte malgré les bombardements alliées.
Mention obligatoire: Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / Archives Nationales du CANADA Référence du document: p000006 Période du document: Seconde Guerre Mondiale Date du document: 10 juillet 1944 Localité présente dans le document: CAEN 14000 Calvados France http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/PhotosHD/p000006.jpg http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/specificPhoto.php?ref=p000006 http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/index.html
Corpse of German soldier in ditch alongside road to town of St. Mere-Eglise, he was killed during 2nd day of the allied invasion of Normandy.
Location: Ste. Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France
Date taken: June 7, 1944
Photograph: Bob Landry (1913-c. 1960)
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/c3f91f2a6412da79.html
Second Army commandant Sir Miles Dempsey and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in the destroyed city of Caen, after Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches on D-Day.
Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images
Britain can’t be reborn while we’re still lost in fantasies about the past G Sun 2 Jun 2019 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/
Major General Collins (C) with captured German Admiral Hennecke and Lt. General Dietrich von Schlieber after Allied takeover of Cherbourg following D-Day.
Location: Cherbourg, Normandy, France
Date taken: June 1944
Photograph: Bob Landry (1913-c. 1960)
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/ce974a8dc39b16da.html
On the second day of the Normandy invasion during WWII, Gen. Omar Bradley, Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce of the 9th Air Corps and Bradley aide, major Hansen, looking at map in envelope packet labeled "Bradley"; they are standing courtyard.
Location: Ste Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France
Date taken: June 7, 1944
Photograph: Bob Landry (1913-c. 1960)
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/3e72c25d7d91414a.html
An A-20 Havoc of the United States 9th Air Force hitting enemy supply lines near Cherbourg, France, in June 1944.
Photograph: Photo12/UIG, via Getty Images
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time As the number of surviving veterans dwindles, the old pillars of trans-Atlantic certainty have begun to tremble. NYT June 6, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/
A memorial to a dead American soldier somewhere in Normandy, June 1944.
Photograph: U.S. Coast Guard, via Reuters
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time As the number of surviving veterans dwindles, the old pillars of trans-Atlantic certainty have begun to tremble. NYT June 6, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/
A priest conducting Mass on Omaha Beach in June 1944.
Photograph: Robert Capa International Center of Photography and Magnum Photos
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time As the number of surviving veterans dwindles, the old pillars of trans-Atlantic certainty have begun to tremble. NYT June 6, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/
American troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment, injured while storming Omaha Beach, waiting to be evacuated to a field hospital on June 6.
Photograph: U.S. Army, via Reuters
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time As the number of surviving veterans dwindles, the old pillars of trans-Atlantic certainty have begun to tremble. NYT June 6, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/
American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944
Photograph: Robert Capa
‘The water was cold, and the beach still more than a hundred yards away. The bullets tore holes in the water around me, and I made for the nearest steel obstacle ... It was still very early and very grey for good pictures, but the grey water and the grey sky made the little men, dodging under the surrealistic designs of Hitler’s anti-invasion brain trust, very effective.’
Robert Capa, Slightly Out of Focus (1947)
Photograph: Robert Capa International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos
Nuns, guns and Beatles: images of crossings by Magnum photographers G Tue 30 Oct 2018 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/30/
Omaha Beach had some of the fiercest fighting of the invasion.
Pyle came ashore here the next day and walked alone on the beach.
Photograph: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
The Man Who Told America the Truth About D-Day NYT June 5, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/
Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat.
Photograph: M. Robert F. Sargent, June 6, 1944. 26-G-2343.
Pictures of World War II US National Archives http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-99.jpg http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/?template=print
Caption form Library of Congress : This photograph shows troops from the First Infantry Division wading ashore under heavy fire at the Normandy beach, code-named OMAHA.
Here the first landings resembled Churchill's worst nightmares, as unexpectedly fierce German resistance resulted in the deaths of many American soldiers.
The troops finally accomplished their mission, however, and casualties elsewhere on D-Day were not as high as had been feared.
Robert Sargent. Taxis to Hell--and Back, 1944. Photographic print. Prints and Photographs Division (219.2) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/images/wc0219_2-3g04731v.jpg http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-unity.html
American troops landing at dawn on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.
Photograph: Robert Capa International Center of Photography and Magnum Photos
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time As the number of surviving veterans dwindles, the old pillars of trans-Atlantic certainty have begun to tremble. NYT June 6, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/
Commandos aboard a landing craft on D-day, 6 June 1944.
Photograph: Getty
‘The sea around was red with blood, but you had to keep going’: D-day veterans attend their last big gathering G Sun 2 Jun 2019 06.03 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/02/
Landing craft and Allied forces arriving at Normandy.
Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG, via Getty Images
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time As the number of surviving veterans dwindles, the old pillars of trans-Atlantic certainty have begun to tremble. NYT June 6, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/
Massive landing and deployment of US troops, supplies and equipment in the days following victorious D-Day action on Omaha Beach;
barrage balloons guard against German aircraft while scores of ships unload men & material.
Location: Normandy, France
Date taken: June 8, 1944
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/c29508522f366e5a.html
New York Times, June 6, 1944
Serial & Government Publications Division (68A.1) American Treasures of The Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm086.html
General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day,
"Full victory--nothing else" to paratroopers somewhere in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-25600 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Anglonautes > download from LoC > TIFF > JPEG https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a26521 https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-06/
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/doc-content/images/ww2-eisenhower-d-day-order.pdf http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/06/d-day-veterans.html added 6 June 2008
US troops jump into surf from Coast Guard landing craft during mock amphibious assault along unidentified beach on North African coast in preparation for invasion of the beaches of Normandy, France.
Date taken: April 1944
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=5e458bb36952960b
Erwin Rommel 1891-1944
Dubbed the "Desert Fox" for the skillful military campaigns he waged on behalf of the German military in North Africa, Erwin Rommel earned the grudging respect of even his adversaries.
At the start of World War II, Rommel was largely responsible for Adolf Hitler's personal safety as he sought to expand his Nazi empire.
Despite the tactical brilliance Rommel displayed in North Africa, German advances there were halted in 1943.
In January 1944, Rommel was made commander in chief of all German armies from the Netherlands to the Loire River.
In France, Rommel sought to fortify Nazi territory and prevent an Allied invasion.
He was not successful.
On June 6, 1944, while Rommel was in Germany celebrating his wife's birthday, the Allies landed at Normandy.
Soon after, Rommel was seriously wounded when Allied aircraft strafed his motorcar.
As a result, he was forced to return to Germany to recover.
While he was hospitalized, a failed attempt on Hitler's life was made.
Rommel, a recent critic of Hitler's leadership, was implicated in the plot.
Shortly thereafter, two German soldiers visited Rommel's sickbed.
They offered him the unpleasant choice of committing suicide by ingesting poison pills or standing trial in what would most likely be a rigged and losing effort.
Rommel chose the poison. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dday-featured-film/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/
Timeline: The War in Europe, After D-Day
June 6, 1944:
An Allied force of more than 150,000 troops, 5,000 ships and 800 aircraft assault 50 miles of northern France's Normandy coastline.
More than 4,000 Allied troops die, and 6,000 are wounded, but the Allies succeed in breaching Hitler's coastal defense of France.
June 26, 1944:
The Allies capture the French port of Cherbourg; the Germans are on the retreat.
August 25, 1944:
Allied troops, with the help of the French resistance led by Gen. Charles de Gaulle, liberate Paris after four years of German occupation.
Dec. 16, 1944:
The Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive on the Western Front, begins.
Hitler orders a quarter-million troops across Luxembourg to push back the Allied forces.
German troops advance 50 miles into the Allied lines, creating a deadly "bulge" into Allied defenses.
Jan. 16, 1945:
The Battle of the Bulge ends with a defeat and retreat for Germany as its supplies grow short and its forces are overcome by Allied resistance.
Feb. 4, 1945:
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea.
The U.S. and Britain agree to allow Stalin to control Eastern Europe after the war ends.
March 1945:
German forcesretreat into Germany as U.S. troops cross the Rhine on the country's Western Front.
April 30, 1945:
As Soviet forces from the Eastern Front encircle Berlin, Hitler, in a bombproof bunker, poisons his mistress, Eva Braun, and shoots himself.
Their bodies are hastily cremated in a garden.
May 7, 1945:
U.S. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower accepts Germany's unconditional surrender at Reims, France.
At midnight on May 8, 1945, the war in Europe is officially over.
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Hollywood's best second world war tributes
As long as there have been movies, there have been war movies.
A sampler of films featuring the D-day landings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/
D-day original newsreels: a pick of the best footage
Although the most dramatic scenes of the invasion are lost, a wealth of original archive footage is available online
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/
Archive Video Of The D-Day Normandy Landings
British and American veterans are set to leave Portsmouth and travel to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
The World War Two veterans have journeyed from across the UK and the US ahead of a series of memorial events to be held this week.
Some of the former servicemen are returning to the beaches of northern France for the first time in 70 years.
Here you can see archive video footage of the landings on June 6th 1944. http://news.sky.com/story/1274178/vet... - broken URL
YouTube > SkyNews 2 June 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wg5x5WaZPo
D-Day Landings (1944) video British Pathé D-Day Landings (1944)
A Day that Shook the World.
On June 6 1944, Allied troops begin their invasion of Europe with the D-Day landings in Normandy. It was the start of the final phase of WW2.
A Day That Shook The World is the classic series that recalls the days of the 20th century that proved to be era-defining and pivotal in the course of modern history.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=-ShxO7QoSiA
D-Day Beach Landing (1944). Vidéo Pathé War Archives
This footage is of British troops jumping out of their landing craft and wading to the Normandy beach.
A poignant moment is at 0.29 seconds where a man can be seen with a wedding ring on patting the back of his comrade.
on http://www.britishpathe.com
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U_RC-SrV-Q Anglonautes's note: check if sound is original or was added later
D-Day Greatest Combined Operation In World's History (1944) video British Pathé
Title reads: "D-day - Greatest Combined Operation in World's History".
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNtfjndy_1o
D-day: memories from the frontline
First-hand accounts of D-day and its aftermath taken from stories submitted by veterans and relatives to Guardian Witness
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/
Memories From Normandy
Beginning on June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on a broad stretch of beaches on the coast of Normandy, in German-held France.
Entrenched behind concrete walls and bunkers were more than 50,000 German soldiers.
Seventy years later, four veterans of the largest amphibious invasion in history recall their experiences.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/
D-Day 70th anniversary:
Ministry of Defence releases rare aerial photographs showing planning – and chaos – of ‘largest single military operation in the history of warfare’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/
Sexual violence committed by U.S. soldiers in the wake of D-Day
Quick military trials were set up.
Of the 152 U.S. soldiers tried for rape, 139 were Black, even though Black soldiers made up just 10% of the fighting force.
And 25 out of the 29 soldiers publicly executed were Black.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/
Life Magazine
After D-Day: Rare Photos From the First Show for US Troops in Normandy
https://time.com/3879977/
Life Magazine
The Ruins of Normandy: Color Photos From France, 1944
https://time.com/3880091/
6 June 1944
D-day
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6 June 1944
Pegasus bridge raid
On 6 June 1944, gliders landed in the dead of night to begin the liberation of France.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/
D-Day landing > Maps
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/
D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now – interactive - 1 June 2014
Peter Macdiarmid has taken photographs of locations in France and England to match with archive images taken before, during and after the D-day landings.
The Allied invasion to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during the second world war took place on 6 June 1944.
Operation Overlord was the largest seaborne invasion in military history, with more than 156,000 Allied troops storming the beaches of France.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/
Bernard Law Montgomery 1887-1976
Bernard Law Montgomery, commonly referred to as "Monty," initially earned distinction during World War II due to his highly effective leadership of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.
There, Montgomery was the first Allied general to inflict a decisive defeat upon the Axis forces when he drove them from their positions at El Alamein in northern Egypt.
On the heels of his North Africa success, Montgomery took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily, and worked closely with U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower planning and implementing the D-Day invasion of France. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/peopleevents/p_montgomery.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/
https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower 1890-1969
34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.
He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe;
he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
https://www.npr.org/2014/05/31/
The part played by meteorologists in the planning of the 1944 landings on the Normandy beaches
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/may/26/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/may/26/
Atlantic Wall
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Preparing for the Invasion
after France fell to the Nazis in 1940, the Allies planned a cross-Channel assault on the German occupying forces.
At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt reaffirmed the plan, which was code-named Overlord.
Although Churchill acceded begrudgingly to the operation, historians note that the British still harbored persistent doubts about whether Overlord would succeed.
The decision to mount the invasion was cemented at the Teheran Conference held in November and December 1943.
Joseph Stalin, on his first trip outside the Soviet Union since 1912, pressed Roosevelt and Churchill for details about the plan, particularly the identity of the Supreme Commander of Overlord.
Churchill and Roosevelt told Stalin that the invasion "would be possible" by August 1, 1944, but that no decision had yet been made to name a Supreme Commander.
To this latter point, Stalin pointedly rejoined, "Then nothing will come of these operations. Who carries the moral and technical responsibility for this operation?"
Churchill and Roosevelt acknowledged the need to name the commander without further delay.
Shortly after the conference ended, Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower to that position.
By May 1944, 2,876,000 Allied troops were amassed in southern England.
While awaiting deployment orders, they prepared for the assault by practicing with live ammunition.
The largest armada in history, made up of more than 4,000 American, British, and Canadian ships, lay in wait.
More than 1,200 planes stood ready to deliver seasoned airborne troops behind enemy lines, to silence German ground resistance as best they could, and to dominate the skies over the impending battle theater.
Against a tense backdrop of uncertain weather forecasts, disagreements in strategy, and related timing dilemmas predicated on the need for optimal tidal conditions, Eisenhower decided before dawn on June 5 to proceed with Overlord.
Later that same afternoon, he scribbled a note intended for release, accepting responsibility for the decision to launch the invasion and full blame should the effort to create a beachhead on the Normandy coast fail. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/d-day-memo/
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
D-Day, 70 years on:
'We watched an American destroyer slowly demolished by shore batteries'
Seventy years ago, the Observer vividly covered the Normandy landings.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/
Black soldiers
almost four times as many black soldiers as whites were executed in Europe after military courts-martial, even though blacks made up less than 10 percent of the troops
(...)
There were about 700,000 black soldiers in the United States forces in World War II out of a total of more than 10 million men and women who served.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/07/us/
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/07/us/
Robert Capa 1913-1954
On 3 December 1938 Picture Post introduced 'The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa' with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War.
But the 'greatest war photographer' hated war.
Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest in 1913, he studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin.
Driven out of the country by the threat of a Nazi regime, he settled in Paris in 1933.
He was represented by Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer Gerda Taro.
Together, they invented the 'famous' American photographer Robert Capa and began to sell his prints under that name.
He met Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, and formed friendships with fellow photographers David 'Chim' Seymour
and Henri
Cartier-Bresson.
From 1936 onwards, Capa's coverage of the Spanish Civil War appeared regularly.
His picture of a Loyalist soldier who had just been fatally wounded earned him his international reputation and became a powerful symbol of war.
After his companion, Gerda Taro, was killed in Spain, Capa travelled to China in 1938 and emigrated to New York a year later.
As a correspondent in Europe, he photographed the Second World War, covering the landing of American troops on Omaha beach on D-Day, the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge.
In 1947 Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert.
On 25 May 1954 he was photographing for Life in Thai-Binh, Indochina, when he stepped on a landmine and was killed.
The French army awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm post-humously.
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established in 1955 to reward exceptional professional merit.
http://www.magnumphotos.com/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/30/
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