The silhouettes of the two Pahlavi Shahs of Iran, Reza & his son (then Crown-Prince) Mohammed-Reza, 1930's. Reza ruled the country from 1921-41 after a coup that took power from the Qajar dynasty (only becoming Shah in 1925.) Mohammed reigned from 1941 until his ouster in the 1979 Iranian revolution
Posted 11th May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
The silhouettes of the two Pahlavi Shahs of Iran, Reza & his son (then Crown-Prince) Mohammed-Reza, 1930's. Reza ruled the country from 1921-41 after a coup that took power from the Qajar dynasty (only becoming Shah in 1925.) Mohammed reigned from 1941 until the 1979 Iranian revolution (2629x2223)
Posted 11th May 2026r/HistoryPorn
Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo departing from a train in 1940. Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic for over 30 years from 1930-1961, murdering over 50,000 people in the process, (mostly his own citizens.) By the time of his death, he was one of the wealthiest men in the entire world
Posted 10th May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo departing from a train, 1940. Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic for over 30 years from 1930-1961, murdering over 50,000 people in the process, mostly his own citizens. By the time of his death, he was one of the wealthiest men in the world (5981x6783)
Posted 10th May 2026r/HistoryPorn
Yugoslavian communist President Josip Broz Tito eating lunch with his bodyguards on a safari in Ethiopia, 1959. Tito developed a strong personal friendship & political alliance with Ethiopion Emperor Haile Selassie
Posted 8th May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
The dead bodies & bullet riddled car of Mexican revolutionary Francisco 'Pancho' Villa (background) & his aide Colonel Miguel Trillo after their assassination, 1923. The retired Villa was likely targeted on the orders of powerful politicians after discussions of re-entering politics (2000x1204)
Posted 8th May 2026r/HistoryPorn
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein hanging out with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, 1970's. The two leaders had a close diplomatic relationship, & Fidel even allowed Saddam to fly to Havana to be treated by Cuba's best orthopedic doctors when he needed surgery for his back pain
Posted 7th May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
'Entente Cordiale' a 1904 postcard showing Marianne & Britannia dancing in harmony as a representation of the significant diplomatic & political improvements that the relationship between the two countries had recently undergone
Posted 7th May 2026r/PropagandaPosters
"Der Korn und Wein Jud" (The Corn and Wine Jew) 1629 German antisemitic print negatively caricaturizing Jewish merchants riding around on a cart driven by the devil, engaging in various forms of social degeneracy. Money lending/usury, booze-pushing, war profiteering and other various offenses
Mexican revolutionary general Plutarco Elias Calles being sworn in as President, 1924. Calles founded what is today the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party,) that ruled Mexico uninterrupted from 1929-2000. Calles ruled through a series of puppet presidents even after leaving office from 1929-1934
Mexican revolutionary general Plutarco Elias Calles being sworn in as President, 1924. Calles founded what is today the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party,) which ruled Mexico uninterrupted from 1929-2000. Calles ruled through a line of puppet presidents from 1929 to 1934 (1018x899)
Posted 7th May 2026r/HistoryPorn
The corpse of a little boy laying in the street following the battle of Tampere, the bloodiest engagement of the Finnish civil war, 1918. In the aftermath, white army forces ruthlessly slaughtered much of the red army along with all of the Russians in the city, including women & children (2953x1728)
Contrary to popular belief, the first known famous subject of an urban legend involving the removal of ribs to perform autofellatio was actually the eccentric Italian poet, officer, aristocrat & quasi-revolutionary nationalist Gabriele D'annunzio. He was an enormous influence on Mussolini & fascism
Posted 7th May 2026r/HistoryAnecdotes
8 Serbian civilians being hanged by Austro-Hungarian troops during their WWI-era occupation of the country, 1910s. The invasion of Serbia saw some of the European theatre's most brutal war crimes directed at civilians (2995x2100)
Our driver came up there with your cabbages, 186 lbs of cabbages… and they told him to get lost
Posted 6th May 2026r/LongmontPotionCastle
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini & his friend Harukichi Shimoi with a set of Samurai armor gifted to him by Shimoi personally, 1920s. A noted Italophile, Shimoi lived in Italy for decades, served in the Italian army, participated in the marches on Fiume & Rome, & was an early supporter of Fascism
Posted 6th May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini & his friend Harukichi Shimoi with a set of Samurai armor gifted to him by Shimoi personally, 1920s. A noted Italophile, Shimoi lived in Italy for decades, served in the Italian army, marched on Fiume & later Rome, & was an early supporter of Fascism (879x1024)
Posted 6th May 2026r/HistoryPorn
56 year old FBI Director L Patrick Gray working out on a speedbag & weights, 1972. Unusually for a federal police officer of his age and rank, Gray was a devoted athlete & an experienced boxer who exercised daily as well as abstaining from smoking & drinking. He later resigned during Watergate
Posted 5th May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
56 year old FBI Director L Patrick Gray working out on a speedbag, 1972. Unusually for a federal police officer of his age and rank, Gray was a devoted athlete & an experienced boxer who exercised daily as well as abstaining from smoking & drinking. He later resigned during Watergate (2048x1375)
Posted 5th May 2026r/HistoryPorn
Ugandan and Libyan dictators Idi Amin and Muammar Gaddafi reviewing a military parade together, 1975 (2000x1343)
Posted 4th May 2026r/HistoryPorn
Ugandan and Libyan dictators Idi Amin and Muammar Gaddafi reviewing a military parade together, 1975
Posted 4th May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
Young actor/comedian Gregg Turkington hanging out with Satanist Anton LaVey, 1995. (1123x1123)
Shaq (7'1) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (6'0)
Posted 4th May 2026r/heightcomparison
The only 3 known occasions in which Taliban founder and terrorist leader Mullah Omar was caught on camera. Omar was extremely reclusive, especially because of his distinctive appearance (Omar had one eye and was 6'6) He died in hiding in 2013
Posted 3rd May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
The last King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, with his dog in 1960. Zahir ruled the country for almost 4 decades from 1933-73. Remembered as a remarkably lenient king, he supposedly never signed a single warrant approving the execution of a citizen for political reasons during his reign
Posted 2nd May 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
The last King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, around 1960. Zahir ruled the country for almost 4 decades from 1933-73. Remembered as a remarkably lenient king, he supposedly never signed a single warrant approving the execution of a citizen for political reasons during his reign (3258x2503)
Posted 2nd May 2026r/HistoryPorn
US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gazing at a large globe gifted to him by the staff of the Office of Strategic Service, the precursor to the CIA, 1942
US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gazing at a large globe gifted to him by the staff of the Office of Strategic Service, the precursor to the CIA, 1942 (3840x3081)
'Mare Clausum' ("Closed Sea") claims between the Spanish & Portuguese Empires, maintained from the 15th to 18th centuries, though the Portuguese relinquished theirs much sooner. The intention was to establish enormous swathes of the worlds Oceans under exclusive imperial control
Posted 2nd May 2026r/Colonialism
Posted 2nd May 2026r/SpanishEmpire
Rare photo of German dictator Adolf Hitler wearing a leather jacket, sometime in the late 1930s
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin kissing his daughter Svetlana, 1934. Despite his cold tendencies toward many of his family members, Stalin reportedly adored Svetlana and lavished her with affection
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin kissing his daughter Svetlana, 1934. Despite his cold tendencies toward many of his family members, Stalin reportedly adored Svetlana and lavished her with affection (1422x800)
On May 13, the British House of Lords will meet for the first time in its almost 700 year long history as a house of Parliament without a single member who retains hereditary peerage, or the right to a seat in the house based on inheritance. A small number will remain with reduced ‘life peer’ status
Posted 1st May 2026r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
Hollywood actor Nathan Chasing Horse, who was just sentenced to life in prison
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/Justfuckmyshitup
A young Michael Jackson wearing a Wehrmacht uniform as part of a sketch on the Sonny & Cher show, 1976 (1351x1080)
Posted 27th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
In 1958, amidst comparisons of his tyrannical rule to that of China's infamous first Emperor Qin Shi Huang, dictator Mao Zedong declared in a speech at the 8th party congress "What did he [Qin] amount to? He only buried alive 460 scholars, while we buried 46,000." & "...We surpass him a hundredfold"
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/HistoryAnecdotes
The final monarch of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, (left) conferring with his cousin and Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud Khan, early 1960s. In 1973, with the backing of the Afghan military, Khan overthrew the Shah in a coup that established the Republic of Afghanistan. (1877x1772)
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein firing a pistol, 1980's. Saddam, who grew up in extreme poverty in rural Iraq, claimed to have been experienced with firearms since he was a child
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein firing a pistol, 1980's. Saddam, who grew up in extreme poverty in rural Iraq, claimed to have been experienced with firearms since he was a child (1061x752)
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
1903 cartoon about Venezuela's debt crisis depicting the Venezuelan president, Cipriano Castro, as a goose being plucked by Britain and Germany while Uncle Sam watches. By American cartoonist William Allen Rogers, published in the New York Herald
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/PropagandaPosters
A British officer reading a newspaper while being fanned with a palm frond & getting a pedicure from one of his servants in India, late 1800's
Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, British Viceroy & Governor-General of India from 1876-1880. He received widespread criticism for his handling of the 'Great Famine' of 1876-78 during which approximately 8,000,000 died of starvation and disease
Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, British Viceroy & Governor-General of India from 1876-1880. He received widespread criticism for his handling of the 'Great Famine' of 1876-78 during which approximately 8,000,000 died of starvation and disease (1260x1094)
A British officer reading a newspaper while being fanned with a palm frond & getting a pedicure from one of his servants in India, late 1800's (2001x1252)
In 1918, the first time future allied leaders FDR & Winston Churchill ever met, Churchill was so rude to Roosevelt that he retained a lifelong dislike of the man well into WWII. Even as late as 1939, Roosevelt still mentioned privately how much he resented Churchill acting "like a stinker" at dinner
Posted 23rd Apr 2026r/HistoryAnecdotes
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin took power on the exact last day of the 1900s, December 31st, 1999, so the exact length of his reign can always be determined by calculating the Current Date (+1)-2000
Posted 23rd Apr 2026r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
USMC sergeant Elmo "Gunny" Haney on Pavuvu during the Pacific campaign, November 11 1944. One of the oldest marines in his battalion, Haney was noted for his eccentric "old breed" behavior, like scrubbing his genitals with a stiff brush. He was portrayed in the HBO series 'The Pacific'
Posted 22nd Apr 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
USMC sergeant Elmo "Gunny" Haney on Pavuvu during the Pacific campaign, November 11 1944. One of the oldest marines in his battalion, Haney was noted for his eccentric "old breed" behavior, like scrubbing his genitals with a stiff brush. He was portrayed in the HBO series 'The Pacific' (840x605)
Posted 22nd Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
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