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Parisian mothers cover their children from German snipers 1944
Soviets open the tomb of Timur in Uzbekistan, the Mongol founder of the Timurid Empire, which apparently started a curse a week before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Timur was reburied a month before the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, which apparently ended the curse. (June 1941)(900×600)
Soldiers of the Swedish Landstorm guarding the coast, Furuskär, ca. 1916
One of the only known photos of Subha Talfah, the mother of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taken sometime in the 1950’s or 60’s. Subha unsuccessfully tried to abort Saddam before he was born. (594×424)
Percy Fawcett, who disappeared 100 years ago today and was never seen again whilst on an expedition into the Amazon Rainforest looking for a lost city he referred to as “Z”. May 1925,.
A schooner having trouble crossing the equator. A newspaper joke from 1930.
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Heavy cruiser Blücher.
North African Campaign. Egypt. 26 October 1942. An RAAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk arrives back from a dawn patrol. (640 x 515)
A couple dancing during the Guelaguetza Festival celebrating “los lunes del cerro” (Mondays on the Hill) on the last two Mondays of July (Oaxaca, Mexico 1985)
Danish troops on bicycle ride towards advancing German units during the invasion of Denmark, 9 April 1940. Less than 20 Germans and 16 Danes would be killed during the 2-hour long invasion of the country.
Destroyed Stalingrad. Soviet soldiers on the background of a destroyed building. 1942. Photo by Ryumkin.
Sylvia Plath on the beach, June, 1954 Plath was born 91 years ago today Photo by Gordon Ames Lameyer
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