21-04-2024
How domestic violence was treated in Russia — myths and reality
It is believed that in Russia, assault in the family was almost a national sport. In history lessons, we were told about the ...
21-04-2024
10 Fascinating Maps That Show The Side Of The World We Rarely ...
With the rapid development of technology, people might easily assume that maps are gradually disappearing. However, they are still ...
21-04-2024
Late love of Marshal Tolbukhin and... Faina Ranevskaya
And it all started as the old joke. Remember: the restaurant falls out drunk, and he saw a man in a Golden cap, and trousers with ...
21-04-2024
Caution! Things from ArtefactsPorn can cause aesthetic orgasm
Modern things are created by teams of professionals that include designers, designers, material engineers, the ergonomic ...
21-04-2024
Istanbul-the City of Contrasts: 30 color images of street ...
Istanbul is the most populous city in Turkey. It is the cultural, historical and economic center of the country. It is located on ...
21-04-2024
The incredible story of how the Queen of Britain married the ...
In the 19th century, a small mistake in translation led to the fact that the Nigerian king for many years began to consider the ...
20-04-2024
The story of "Mad Jenny" - a model and the most beautiful ...
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, the youngest warden of the Stutthof concentration camp, became famous for her incredible cruelty. It's hard ...
20-04-2024
6 real people who cheated death
Let this post serve as another reminder that we are all mortal, and our bodies are just mortal sacks of meat and bones. Of course, ...
20-04-2024
The oldest photos of their kind: from the first daguerreotype ...
The term "photography" appeared at the beginning of the XIX century, but the history of this art form has its roots in much more ...
20-04-2024
Interesting facts about the most unusual mummies in history
Each of us has heard about mummies at some point, at least in school lessons on the history of Ancient Egypt. However, there are ...
20-04-2024
The history of the Great Paraguayan War — senseless and ...
War is always death, destruction and grief. And it does not matter what it is called — a World War, an anti-terrorist operation ...
19-04-2024
Why do Arabs write from right to left
Arabic writing is very different from Cyrillic and Latin. And this difference is not only in the form of the letters themselves. In ...
19-04-2024
45 photos that will change your idea of the past
The celebrities we are used to seeing on the screen or in history textbooks, outside of all this hype around, are ordinary people. ...
19-04-2024
"Duplessis Orphans": a terrible business on children's suffering
The terrible story of the Duplessis orphans became known to the world community in the 90s of the last century, 50 years after the ...
19-04-2024
Fossil stool researchers: who are they and why our future is ...
Sitting down in the eagle pose to empty his intestines, the ancient man could not even imagine that in thousands of years his pile ...
18-04-2024
Nangavalli has come true: the terrible events that have been ...
In 1969, during a speech on TV, the American Joseph Delius predicted that at the end of the year there will be a plane crash. He ...
18-04-2024
Myths that we were told in history lessons, and we believe in ...
Due to the effect of the illusion of truth (the tendency to believe that information is true when it is repeated many times), we ...
18-04-2024
From beauty in the beast: a history of Mary Ann Webster — ...
Every woman wants to be beautiful, desirable and, of course, wants to see proof of their attractiveness in the mirror. Hard to ...
18-04-2024
Joe Metheny - a maniac who fed his victims to cafe guests
American Joe Metheny (Joseph Roy Metheny) “became famous” throughout the world as a serial killer and rapist. The man claimed ...
18-04-2024
What Jerusalem looked like in the last days of Turkish rule
The ancient city of Jerusalem is rich in history and spiritual culture, shrouded in many secrets, mysteries and legends. And this ...
17-04-2024
The ancestor of Skype and FaceTime: the first videophone ...
Today, it is rare to meet a person who does not use Skype or another video calling application. A face-to-face conversation is much ...
17-04-2024
The story of Alice Kyteler - the first witch in Irish history
The medieval witch hunt cost the lives of thousands of women from different countries. And in each there was one who was destined ...
17-04-2024
Little criminals of the Victorian era
Pillowcases thieves, burglars shops and petty crooks juvenile offenders, which a hundred years ago in the UK flogged with rods, ...
17-04-2024
Magyar poisoner of Nagyrev
In the early XX century in the Hungarian village Nagyrev formed a sort of killer syndicate consisting exclusively of women. From ...
17-04-2024
Beauty with risk for life: how ladies of the past ruined his ...
Women always knew that beauty requires sacrifice, and were ready to go. In the best case, these victims were tired from walking at ...
17-04-2024
"Fence art" of the ancients: archaeologists regularly find ...
Many believe that offensive inscriptions on walls and fences are a sad sign of our era associated with the decline of morals. But ...