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,.

The road-oriented Wehrmacht force of 1941 was not prepared for the terrible conditions of unpaved Russian roads.