16-05-2024
The history of the legendary ointment " Asterisk»
The legendary ointment "Zvezdochka" appeared in pharmacies of the Soviet Union around the 70s. Literally everyone remembers it, ...
16-05-2024
Vintage Playboy without silicone and photoshop
Playboy is perhaps the most famous American magazine for men, which specializes in publishing photos of nude women (until last ...
16-05-2024
20 so absurd historical facts that they seem untrue
Surely many of you have heard something so incredible and illogical that, except for nonsense, it could not be called anything ...
16-05-2024
Features of a Soviet-style wedding celebration
A wedding photo is both an artistic picture, a family heirloom, and a document imbued with the spirit of the times. In our ...
16-05-2024
The Court in Ancient Egypt: how to punish for various crimes ...
In ancient Egypt, people's actions were judged according to moral and religious laws. They tried and condemned not only the living, ...
15-05-2024
In prison of the 19th century there was a Ladder Cubitt, the ...
Can't explain the dislike for sports? Maybe in past lives you have experienced the torture of fitness! In the late 19th century in ...
15-05-2024
The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan
Since childhood, we have associated the Wild West with endless prairies, along which brave cowboys jump, shooting back at ...
15-05-2024
Planting on an anthill — for which Russia relied on a ...
Over the history of mankind, people have come up with thousands of ways to exterminate their own kind. Our ancestors showed a ...
15-05-2024
The view from the depths of millennia: how did ancient man ...
Scientists have restored a man who was killed 8000 years ago when, presumably, the ritual of sacrifice. His head separated from his ...
14-05-2024
The secret of the Tonsure: why Catholic monks shaved the top ...
For many of us, the image of a Catholic monk is inextricably linked with a black cassock and a tonsure – a neatly shaved crown. ...
14-05-2024
Unfriend and ban: how could one "remove it" before there were ...
In social networks it is very easy to make friends: want — friended by sick — raspandita with him. A slang expression for "hi", ...
14-05-2024
Cooler than in the movies: how sending a boy to a poor ...
The story of an American young man that happened to him 18 years ago is like a real fairy tale or a love melodrama. With the only ...
14-05-2024
5 outstanding personalities who became victims of the Inquisition
On May 15, 1252, Pope Innocent IV read out the bull "ad extirpanda", according to which the torture of those suspected of heresy ...
14-05-2024
Funny fool Schlitz Sertis: how the fate of the most famous ...
The sight of this ugly, but at the same time sweet, kind, lively and friendly person causes not so much horror as sympathy and ...
14-05-2024
22 good things for many years, but they are like new
Did you notice how easily we throw away things and buy yourself a new one? We are unaccustomed to high-quality items that you can ...
14-05-2024
Rifles for the revolution, or why the cobblestone did not ...
People of the older generation remember well the sculpture by Ivan Shadr “Cobblestone - the weapon of the proletariat.” But it ...
14-05-2024
City of Darkness: The amazing fate of the fortress city of ...
Hundreds of high-rise buildings huddled closely together, narrow passages between them that did not know the sunlight, children ...
14-05-2024
Romantic story of 16-year-old drowned from Paris
Dummy for practicing skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation sign of tens of thousands medical students and rescuers. However, few ...
13-05-2024
Robin Hood — the real story of the guy from Sherwood Forest
A brave archer from Sherwood Forest named Robin Hood became an integral symbol of the English Middle Ages. Together with King ...
13-05-2024
How to swim in the XVIII and XIX centuries and at the same ...
Some clarity came only after studying Wikipedia: A bathing machine (in Russia and Austria-Hungary was known as a bathing van) - a ...
13-05-2024
What the Zaschka Three Wheeler, the world's first folding ...
The inventor Engelbert Zashka was one of the first pioneers of the helicopter industry in Germany. However, this invention is not ...
13-05-2024
25 historical photos that captured the dramatic moments of ...
History for most of us is about facts and figures. But sometimes, looking at a successful historical picture, you begin to perceive ...
13-05-2024
As the robber George Big nose was a pair of shoes and an ashtray
In the Museum of the small American town of Rawlins, Wyoming, is stored in a spooky exhibit is part of the skull and a couple mens ...
13-05-2024
Why walk around naked: A Brief History of Nudism
Nudism appeared a very long time ago — we can say that the current arose together with humanity itself. At the heart of this ...
13-05-2024
Women's education in Tsarist Russia: how was organized the ...
Modern society not so long ago came to the idea of joint education for boys and girls. But just a hundred years ago girls were ...
12-05-2024
"Retrophizra»: how physical education classes were held in ...
Many of us remember our Soviet physical education lessons — rope, horse, skiing... that's all. And how the world followed the ...