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09.02.24
Jokes of Joseph Stalin
07-02-2024
15 Incredible Facts about Rasputin, the mystic who destroyed ...
Who was he: a saint, a demon, or just a depraved charlatan? Today Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin would probably be called a psychic ...
07-02-2024
20 unique photos with greetings from the past
Photographs are a time machine on which you can go back several years or even centuries. And the older they get, the more valuable ...
07-02-2024
What did the world's most famous landmarks look like at the ...
Wolfgang Wilde, the creator and curator of the website Retronaut, has released a book that will change the perception of the past. ...
07-02-2024
"For our and your freedom": how many Russians fought for the ...
According to the Warsaw Historical Museum, 40,000 people took part in the 1944 uprising, of which 1% were not Poles. ...
07-02-2024
How to look like tulo, unique Chinese homes castles
Nationality Hakka who settled in the mountainous Fujian province in China, has created a unique architectural structure, "tulou" ...
07-02-2024
Bartender Day: Once Upon a Time in America
February 6 is considered to be International Bartender's Day - in fact, on this day the Catholic Church honors the memory of ...
06-02-2024
Pizza, matryoshka and 6 other famous things invented not ...
Quite often it happens that if people use something for a long time, they begin to consider it part of their culture. For example, ...
06-02-2024
The early 90s through the eyes of Bertin van Manen
Before releasing her first photo book, A Hundred Summers A Hundred Winters, photographer Bertien van Manen traveled throughout the ...
06-02-2024
The Very Peculiar Victorian Fairy Art Of Anster “Fairy” ...
In the world of fairy art there are so many images from history we are familiar with, from sweet flower fairies to darker images of ...
06-02-2024
Foreign geisha in early 20th-century Japan
We have repeatedly published old postcards from the beginning of the last century, on which the masters of seduction – Japanese ...
06-02-2024
The harsh 19th century: a collection of archival photographs ...
From time immemorial, man's love for beauty and aesthetic beauty has firmly coexisted with an inexplicable craving to gaze at ...
05-02-2024
4 cases when ordinary people behaved like action heroes
It's high time for Hollywood screenwriters to adopt the stories of these ordinary people, because in extreme situations they ...
05-02-2024
How cats took part in the war
Know all about dogs in war, but without cats is not done. For the first time, cats were involved in hostilities for two and a half ...
05-02-2024
Little known UNESCO sites in Russia, which not everyone knows
The list of natural and cultural attractions that is generated by the UNESCO stamp of quality that speaks to the traveler, it's ...
04-02-2024
Why Hitler had a moustache brush and where mustard gas
Mustache brush appeared in the late 19th century in the United States and for a couple of decades, the fashion has spread all over ...
04-02-2024
The hottest babes of the 70s
The seventies of the last century were a real heyday of style, fashion and cinema, and also an era when unforgettable beauties ...
04-02-2024
22 glamorous beauty of the mid-twentieth century in elegant ...
It is impossible to overestimate the role of stocking in the lives of women. Weightless part of the female wardrobe male attracts ...
04-02-2024
10 Artworks That Were Too Good Not To Be Turned Into Memes
The prevalence of meme culture and the ease of access to digital tools means that most of us can create, write, and share memes ...
04-02-2024
6 of the most striking images of Cleopatra on the screen
In November 69 BC, she was born Cleopatra, the last Queen of Egypt from the Macedonian dynasty of the Ptolemies. Cleopatra, perhaps ...
04-02-2024
The story of Getty Green, the Witch of Wall Street, the ...
If you suddenly think that your mother-in-law is a snake and a miser, then do not rush to conclusions. History knows worse ...
04-02-2024
Guess what these forgotten things that used to be used daily ...
Trembleuze, chatelain, grandel… These objects are witnesses of the times of the past, and modern people can easily be confused. ...
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04-02-2024
The Tragic Story of the "Living Skeleton" Isaac Sprague
To modern people, freak circuses and “human zoos” seem terrible and disgusting. But there was a time when they were the only ...
03-02-2024
How the prostitutes of New Orleans lived 100 years ago
From luxurious palaces to crumbling huts, these 1912 black-and-white photographs show how New Orleans prostitutes lived a hundred ...
03-02-2024
How girls who Lost their Panties made Art Fram a famous Artist
Chicago artist Art Frahm, who worked in the pin-up style, became famous for women losing their panties. It was the series of ...
03-02-2024
Magazine "Ogonek": illustrations of Soviet life
Happy people are open, calm smiles and bright eyes, confident about the future, ready to take on the day. You look exactly like us ...
03-02-2024
18 strange and disgusting facts about Britain in the ...
Stiff British during the reign of Queen Victoria seem to be an example of cinnosti and reason. It's hard to imagine, but the Brits ...