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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,.
1909 High School Graduation Photograph
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UNION CARBIDE’S FERRO ALLOY PLANT AT ALLOY, WV. (photo: Harry Schaefer) (1973)
Young Wife from 1926
Life magazine photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White,1943
8th Air Force Boeing B-17E 41-9154 “THE BAT OUTA HELL” at RAF Polebrook, England, October 1942 (LIFE Magazine Archives Margaret Bourke-White Photographer)
Charles Dickens ~ c. 1860
Interrogation of a captured German non-commissioned officer, captured along with the loot. 1941
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