11-02-2024
Why didn't women in Rus' cut their hair?
Since ancient times, women in Rus' have been adorned with long braids that were never cut. Only at the beginning of the 20th ...
11-02-2024
Cotton wool, solarium, tea bags and 12 more inventions that ...
Wars bring misery and destruction to humanity — this obvious fact cannot be disputed. However, we must be fair and admit that it ...
11-02-2024
13 Hilarious Pics From People’s ‘Blunder Years’ ...
In search of our identity, we sometimes make decisions that later in life we aren't particularly proud of.
11-02-2024
Thomas Edison's 15 Inventions that Changed the World
On February 11, 1847, Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, an incredibly successful inventor, scientist and businessman who ...
11-02-2024
Paris 1923 - epicenter of art and progress
The author of these unique historical photographs is Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. He was born in 1863 in the suburbs of Paris, grew ...
10-02-2024
What 100 years of" improvement " of pedigreed dogs have led to
The age of breeding" improvements " of pure breeds has turned once healthy dogs into deformed animals. There is an opinion that ...
10-02-2024
Why unsightly "boots" became the most popular shoes in the USSR
For today's youth canvas boots — this is ridiculous and archaic shoes, which can be seen at the army photo. But for the older ...
10-02-2024
Strange covers of Soviet children's books that can break an ...
How boring we live. Here before there was no Internet, no annual "Avengers", and the people lived cheerfully and even with a ...
10-02-2024
What did the very first fire extinguishers look like?
On February 7, 1863, engineer Alan Cray in Virginia, USA, officially patented the first fire extinguisher. The first use of glass ...
10-02-2024
Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty
Students, workers, collective farmers. From the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova… They are all very ...
10-02-2024
Where the children of the Sodder family disappeared: a ...
On Christmas Night in 1945, the Sodder family's house in Fayetteville, West Virginia, was engulfed in flames. The house burned to ...
10-02-2024
50 Amazing Historical Photos You've Never Seen Before
One of the main advantages of photography is its ability to quickly send the viewer back in time. Of course, a photograph ...
09-02-2024
The whole truth about the Bloody mistress: the story of Darya ...
Bloody landowner, the dragon lady, Noblewoman torturous... has been called Daria Saltykov, spooky ways to death tortured dozens of ...
09-02-2024
How the monkey officially worked on the railway
We often use the expression: "Even a monkey can be taught this." At the same time, we mean some simple work that does not require ...
09-02-2024
Jokes of Joseph Stalin
According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Joseph Stalin was a very witty man. Characteristic situations were described in his ...
09-02-2024
If the chair Busby — the deadliest furniture on the planet?
In the world there are a lot of things covered mystical, sometimes macabre stories. Mirror, bringing misfortune, paintings, causing ...
08-02-2024
How did butlers appear, and what is the essence of this ...
We all know about the existence of butlers from a young age. People of this profession are present in the literary works of foreign ...
08-02-2024
Dahomey Amazons — the most feared women in history
Dahomey Amazons — a unique phenomenon in world history because it is the only documented female military division. This group of ...
08-02-2024
20 portraits of immigrants to America at the beginning of the ...
Augustus Sherman worked in these years, the chief official in the office of records at Ellis island in new York, who was for many ...
08-02-2024
The battle of Molodi in 1572: like Russia again was almost Tatar
From 29 July to 2 August 1572, near the village of Molodi modern Chekhov district of the Moscow region was the battle that decided ...
08-02-2024
Terrible game, or Why in the old days, children played in the ...
At all times children's games served as a preparation for adult life. Children are losing the familiar patterns of behaviour that ...
08-02-2024
These first pictures of cities around the world show how much ...
These days, the photographers travel the world in search of new perspectives of famous places of the planet. However, there was a ...
08-02-2024
As people in the last century imagined the future
In the mid-20th century, people were confident that in 50-70 years life will change: there will be a lot of amazing inventions, all ...
07-02-2024
1930-1953 years: the contests for the most beautiful women's ...
The first competition for the most beautiful ankles were registered in the first decade of the 20th century. Then they were part of ...
07-02-2024
Color photos of popular tourist destinations, taken more than ...
These lovely photos show looked like the main tourist places of the world at a time when colour photography was just starting to ...
07-02-2024
How medieval pranksters played tricks on people — ...
The word «prank» appeared in our lexicon in the Internet era. But the practical jokes on people themselves, which lead ...