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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,.
The road-oriented Wehrmacht force of 1941 was not prepared for the terrible conditions of unpaved Russian roads.
Mom and Dad 1959. Dad passed last year . Mom is doing well at 86. Taken in Bamberg, Germany.
Photo of the Lykov family who lived in isolation for 40 years. They weren’t discovered until 1978.
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A women steps out of a DC-2 Mexicana de Aviacion (Mexicana) plane (Oaxaca, Mexico c1952)
For a while in the 70’s, My grandfather was Gavin McInnes
1967 Press Photo The Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977)
“The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.
Peasant children lined up for food hand during the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. The consensus is that around 30 million people died in the famine. The famine was caused by communist policies during the failed Great Leap Forward economic campaign and natural disasters.
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