History
12-06-2022
Our beautiful ancestors
Looking at portraits from the distant past, we tend to believe that our ancestors were hardly beautiful, which is why the ...
12-06-2022
Lost architecture: 40 structures that we can only see in the ...
Throughout its history, humanity has created many outstanding architectural structures. Unfortunately, we are not destined to see a ...
12-06-2022
25 of the most amazing archaeological finds in history
Archaeology may not be the most breathtaking profession, but it certainly has its own exciting moments. Of course, it's not every ...
12-06-2022
Picnic on the pyramids: tourists in Giza during the British ...
In 2013, the audacious trick of the rufers Vitaly Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov, who climbed the Egyptian pyramids, caused a ...
12-06-2022
View from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour: what Moscow ...
In September 1839, the solemn laying of the new Cathedral of Christ the Saviour took place. The construction lasted almost 44 ...
11-06-2022
"Go and fight": how the fate of the children of Stalin, ...
To be born into the family of a famous person is both a great success and a cross that you have to bear. Each offspring, of course, ...
11-06-2022
A fairy tale based on real events: what is true in the film ...
Leonid Gaidai's painting "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" is rich in historical mistakes, which, of course, is excusable ...
11-06-2022
Why were bachelors considered second-class people in Russia ...
In the old days in Russia there was a real cult of the family, and a person who did not marry at a certain time was considered ...
11-06-2022
20 images of combat clothing from the distant past, which ...
Throughout history, people have found a reason for war. Today on the planet here and there pockets of violence flare up. But unlike ...
10-06-2022
What did the nobility do all day in the Middle Ages if they ...
Many people think that in the Middle Ages, the aristocrats did nothing but go hunting and go on Crusades. Perhaps some of the noble ...
10-06-2022
How was the accident at the race in Le Mans, the most ...
This accident that happened June 11, 1955 at the 24-hour race in Le Mans was neither before, nor, fortunately, after. The list of ...
10-06-2022
Pigeons in uniform: what role did birds play in the First ...
There are things in this world that scientists seem to be able to explain, but they are unclear to us, ordinary people. For ...
10-06-2022
Miracle in the Andes: How the dead saved the living
The case was in October 1972. The Uruguayan youth rugby team flew to Chile with friends and relatives, a total of 45 people with ...
10-06-2022
Skating, weaving bast and astrology: what other hobby was ...
Despite the constant employment and state care, many Russian rulers were still different hobby. Some like to fish, someone was a ...
10-06-2022
Remembering... fashionable clothes of the 90s
Fashion of the 90s. A frenzied mix of domestic consumer goods, "branded clothes" brought by shuttles, unimaginable hairstyles and ...
10-06-2022
I will sell my soul to the Devil: the price, conditions and ...
The sale of a Christian soul to Satan is one of the most popular subjects in world art. This topic was addressed by most medieval ...
10-06-2022
Mamihlapinatapai is the most mysterious and difficult word to ...
In 2002, Christina Calderon, one of the 1,600 descendants of the Yagan Indian tribe still living on the lands of their ancestors, ...
09-06-2022
20 forgotten TV series from the 90s, which was shown on STS ...
The STS TV channel started broadcasting on 1 December 1996. At the time, he was really entertaining, cozy translating foreign ...
09-06-2022
How the royal family of Great Britain has been wishing Merry ...
The Royal Family of Great Britain issues postcards with its image every year. Let's see how the members of the royal family have ...
09-06-2022
Spy Cat and the Moon Explosion: The secret plans of the Cold War
During the Cold War race, countries did not choose the means. The American and Soviet governments have launched some really strange ...
08-06-2022
10 strange historical photos that require an explanation
It can be difficult to imagine what life was like for several dozen (or even hundreds) years ago, and sometimes it seems strange to ...
08-06-2022
Looked like mom Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana and other ...
Watch a selection of rare archival footage of the XX century stars posing with their moms. Looked like her Marilyn Monroe, ...
08-06-2022
Joseph Pujol is the most famous fart in the world
Have you noticed that often people who are about to spoil the air, raise their index finger up, saying " Attention, something is ...
08-06-2022
Photos of Manhattan 1870-1900, when the island was a slum of ...
In the last decades of the XIX century, Lower Manhattan in New York could be safely called the capital of the slums. In those ...
07-06-2022
What London was like before Banksy: Street art of the 80s
In the 80's in the British capital began a craze for street art. More and more graffiti began to appear on the streets: from the ...
07-06-2022
There is still gunpowder in the flasks! Five "veterans" of ...
The most popular men's magazine made an exclusive issue of Equality Issue, which included a photo shoot "Once a Playmate — ...