History
27.11.21
Mysterious Indochina: 100 years ago
24-11-2021
Reincarnation exists? Twins of celebrities from the past
The belief that people live on land, some lives seem quite reasonable when you look at these pictures. Recently at the University ...
24-11-2021
Stars of the 80s: young, bright and unbridled
The 1980s were a truly revolutionary decade — in everything related to fashion, music, cinema, etc. Here are some candid (and ...
23-11-2021
Black Maria: like a French fortune-teller predicted the death ...
There are amazing people who do not like history and think that history — it's boring, unclear and uninteresting. But writer ...
23-11-2021
Russian Amazons and German vampires: 7 world-famous criminal ...
Most crimes are committed by men, but some women are not a step behind them. These bandits received sentences and went down in ...
23-11-2021
The last secret of the Great Alexander: where did two ...
By the age of 30, Alexander, the son of King Philip of Macedon, had become the ruler of a vast empire from Greece to India. Even ...
23-11-2021
12 rivers that changed the course of history
Of the tens of thousands of rivers crossing the Earth's surface, a select few have shaped the course of human history. From the ...
23-11-2021
What were the school supplies in the Soviet Union
Politsvet pencils, metal rulers and protractors, wooden pencil cases and the famous Kohinor pencils - let's remember together what ...
22-11-2021
Moments of the past: how did a young lady of 100 years ago
Concepts of beauty change and behaviour undergo significant changes, and over time from the past no trace remains. Only written ...
22-11-2021
Did everyone wake up on Monday?
Knocker-up or Knocker-upper is a forgotten profession in England and Ireland, which consisted in waking people up to work. It ...
21-11-2021
Vivid pictures of everyday life in Thailand in the 1970s
Thailand has now become for many both a place for a beach holiday, and a country where you can taste delicious dishes, and a place ...
21-11-2021
The Golden cage: how the life of Russian tsarinas
In Imperial times women had no power over him. The sphere of influence of the peasant and the boyar wives was limited to raising ...
21-11-2021
How venereal diseases were treated in the old days: lead ...
Despite the fact that sexually transmitted diseases have been known for more than one century, they were effectively treated ...
21-11-2021
Braveheart: 7 women to whom we should be grateful for the ...
One of the main achievements of the XX century is the establishment of equality between people. Including gender equality. And, of ...
21-11-2021
The Marquise de Maintenon-unofficial Queen of France, founder ...
Madame de Maintenon is known as one of the favorites of the" sun King " Louis XIV. Very few people know that this woman was also ...
21-11-2021
What Sheremetyevo Airport looked like at the very beginning
Sheremetyevo is an international airport of federal significance, the first in Russia in terms of passenger traffic and one of the ...
21-11-2021
1942: how Americans collected scrap metal for the military ...
When the United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the world trade in raw materials was in a ...
20-11-2021
Chekhov and Lika mizinova: an unusual story of unrequited ...
The most famous play by Anton Chekhov, no doubt, became "the Seagull". Many people know the plot of the story, but few people know ...
20-11-2021
City of Darkness: The Amazing Fate of Kowloon Fortress City
Hundreds of high-rise buildings huddled together, narrow passages between them that did not know sunlight, children who, for lack ...
20-11-2021
5 deadly situations from which a person emerged victorious
Survival in extreme situations requires a person's endurance and unshakable faith that there are no hopeless situations. We present ...
20-11-2021
How the "City of the Dead" appeared in the Dargava Gorge, ...
There are many mysterious places covered with legends on the world map. There are also truly mystical ones among them, where a ...
20-11-2021
The life of Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton
When they were born, their mother decided that this was the punishment of the Lord. Apparently, God wanted to punish her for having ...
19-11-2021
The story of Leonarda Cianciulli, a serial killer who turned ...
According to stereotypes, Italian moms and grandmothers, caring and loving, always make sure that their children are well fed and ...
19-11-2021
What would Nefertiti, Beethoven and other historical figures ...
The artist Becca Saladin tries not only to restore the true appearance of the great rulers of the past from paintings and ...
18-11-2021
A Midsummer night's dream... in the closet. Why in the Middle ...
Over the centuries, the concept of personal space was very abstract. Privacy for sleeping can afford very few. The poor lived in ...
18-11-2021
"Churchill's Egg": why the British prime minister had to fly ...
There are a lot of funny stories about Winston Churchill. Recall at least the story of how the most famous portrait of the British ...
18-11-2021
What women used before their period pads appeared
In ancient times, people believed that menstrual blood could drive dogs crazy. So, all talk about menstruation and how to deal with ...