History
20-12-2023
Dark Years — Armenia in the early 90s
There have been different epochs in the history of Armenia, but one of them stands apart. Despite its short duration by historical ...
19-12-2023
What the Internet looked like 30+ years ago
On December 20, 1990, the first website was launched, created by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who worked at the time at the ...
19-12-2023
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 ...
19-12-2023
Prostitution in Mesopotamia - brothels at temples and a lot ...
You can often hear that prostitution is the oldest profession. But is it possible to determine the era when the first real ...
19-12-2023
10 mysterious ciphers that have puzzled humanity for decades
When a complex code is finally solved, it may contain the secrets of world leaders, secret societies and ancient civilizations. ...
19-12-2023
The legend of Judith and Oloferne
After defeating the median king Arphaxad, the Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled in Nineveh, sent his captain Holofernes to ...
19-12-2023
"Hotel of death" Lavinia Fisher: the first female serial ...
Serial killers are male in history a few hundred and the army of the villains being added regularly. But among women «serial ...
19-12-2023
Walk in St. Petersburg 1993
Today we travel to the year 1993. The country continues to shake — there is another political crisis, which ends on a Black ...
19-12-2023
How did the superstition about broken mirrors appear and why ...
Although we live in the modern world, where most phenomena can be explained from the point of view of science, superstitions are ...
19-12-2023
11 most ridiculous deaths in human history
You've probably all heard about how Isadora Duncan died. Yeah, her death was really ridiculous. But imagine that you can literally ...
18-12-2023
Sampun Mall Collapse
On June 29, 1995, a tragedy occurred in the capital of South Korea, Seoul, that the whole world was talking about. It claimed the ...
18-12-2023
The scientist confirmed that the legendary execution of the ...
Stories about medieval executions and torture are very popular today. Some of them are quite real, others are questioned. One of ...
18-12-2023
Green children of Woolpit: an ancient tale or a story about ...
Stories of contact with aliens are not uncommon these days. Every now and then people appear who communicated with aliens, or even ...
18-12-2023
Street food in pre-revolutionary Russia: what did our ...
Today, those who want to have a quick snack on the street can treat themselves to not too refined, but a variety of dishes. In ...
17-12-2023
40 photos of vintage vending machines that you didn't even ...
In this collection of photos you will see the oldest and most unusual vending machines in the world. Modern vending machines have ...
17-12-2023
Why is it believed that dishes are beaten "for luck"
Sometimes, when someone accidentally breaks a cup or plate, you can hear the phrase that it is "for luck". Sometimes at weddings, ...
17-12-2023
The mystery of the 17 wooden dead, which cannot be solved for ...
The world is full of mysteries that are beyond the control of man. Some of them, such as the secret of the Maya cosmonauts, are ...
17-12-2023
22 archival photographs that may surprise you
History in photographs is often much more informative than long descriptions and reflections. This is simply a mute witness to an ...
16-12-2023
Saturnalia is a loose holiday of the ancient Romans, which ...
Many believe that winter holidays appeared together with Christianity. But this is not so — before Christmas appeared, another ...
16-12-2023
Without the past and the future: treatment of lobotomy from ...
Terrible the procedure of lobotomy was very popular in the 1940-1950-ies. Patients suffering from depression and schizophrenia seen ...
16-12-2023
Unsolved mystery pakala Great — "the astronaut of Palenque"
In 1952, in Mexico, among the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Palenque, was discovered a tomb with the remains of a man, the ...
16-12-2023
Buddhist Monk's Self-Immolation: The Flame that changed the World
Thit Quang Duc is a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, who went down in history and became a symbol of the struggle for equality of ...
16-12-2023
How the faces of Iranian women of the 1920s and 1950s changed
Parisa Damandan is an Iranian photographer and art critic. Parisa received a diploma in photography from the University of Tehran ...
16-12-2023
Rare color photographs of the Russian Empire at the beginning ...
The cycle of color photographs captured in the distant 1911. Where one hundred years ago, took a color? How was it done? Indeed, ...
15-12-2023
From Rasputin to Vysotsky: famous faces in color
We tend to perceive color photographs as something more real and modern. Thanks to the passion of the artist Olga Shirnina, who ...
15-12-2023
What is the difference between “pipets” and “kapets” ...
For some of us, the lexemes “pipets” and “kapets” are unacceptable and are strongly associated with a poor vocabulary and ...