History
20-03-2022
The most iconic historical frames are now in color
Black-and-white frames create a false impression that the events displayed on them took place hundreds of years earlier than in ...
19-03-2022
The most dangerous a study by British scientists: "operation ...
British scientists over the past few years have become heroes memes, jokes and anecdotes, due to their inexplicable passion for ...
19-03-2022
Rostov triangle: why it is born more of maniacs
Since 1970‑ies in the neighboring cities of Rostov-on-don, Shakhty and Taganrog was sent to jail 37 serial killers, who killed ...
19-03-2022
14 photos undeservedly overlooked by history that are worth ...
Over the past few years, more photos have been taken than in the whole past century, because now the camera seems to be even in the ...
19-03-2022
Warm and colorful pictures of everyday life in Uzbekistan in 1956
In 1956, Jacques Dupakier went to Tashkent, the capital of the Uzbek SSR, where he filmed the daily life of the city and its ...
19-03-2022
Children of the 90s: the artist displays in his works the ...
Those whose childhood fell on the dashing nineties, I remember well the first video games to magazines. Exciting shooting and ...
19-03-2022
Empire of dirt, or Why the warriors of Genghis Khan, was ...
The Mongols seized in the 13th and 14th centuries, a large part of the Eurasian continent, was a force which could not to resist ...
19-03-2022
Why is the hero of Russian fairy tales Ivan the fool and what ...
The most famous and beloved hero of Russian folk tales is Ivan the Fool, or as he is affectionately called - Ivanushka. Despite an ...
18-03-2022
Farah Pahlavi: the last queen of Iran who lost everything but ...
Today, some perceive Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as a symbol of a secular country free ...
18-03-2022
Conman Konstantin Korovko is the prototype of the underground ...
We all know very well that many famous writers took their characters from real life. Did so and Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, ...
17-03-2022
Roman steps executions Scalae Gemoniae: a macabre place of ...
In Ancient Rome, there was a few places for public executions. As a rule, for justice used a flat area that can accommodate a ...
17-03-2022
25 rare historical photos, as well as pictures of stars that ...
History allows us to plunge into the past and get out of the depths of information that is little known. We can see how people ...
17-03-2022
Lost in History: 8 Photos That Shed New Light on Our Past
While many animals rely on other senses—such as smell in dogs or hearing in bats—humans depend on sight. We build our lives ...
16-03-2022
The tragic life of bearded women Annie Jones, who was a real lady
Even in the middle of the XX century, when people came close to solving the mystery of the atom and was looking for ways to reach ...
16-03-2022
Cuba Libre: the secret of the strip clubs, the guerrillas and ...
The Cuban revolution, steaming like a cigar of Fidel Castro, swept the country with a wave in the 1950-ies and radically changed ...
16-03-2022
When Reality is Scarier than cinema: 13 life stories based on ...
Scriptwriters of "horror movies" often write about maniacs, psychopaths, murderers, and the fact that these criminals really ...
16-03-2022
"My first telly": Soviet people and their coveted acquisition
In the project "My first TV set" artists Anna Pilipyuk and Vladimir Shipotilnikov remembered how in the Soviet Union the TV was a ...
15-03-2022
21 historical facts that you were not told about at school
Sometimes even the smallest and seemingly insignificant detail can completely change the vision of the story. In addition, it is ...
15-03-2022
"Operation Finale": how the Jews had kidnapped Adolf ...
In the last days of the war, many Nazi criminals looking for ways to escape, rightly fearing for their lives. Many of them were ...
15-03-2022
The amazing story of the Cocaine Bear — a bear who ate 34 ...
The story of drug smuggling has a lot of amazing occasions, but the case of Coca Bears — one of the most impressive. He became a ...
15-03-2022
Scary Hunt: the most famous witches of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages were a very difficult time for women. Any passerby could accuse the girl of witchcraft, and most often empty words ...
14-03-2022
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 ...
14-03-2022
16 must-see Hermitage masterpieces
It is assumed that it will take about ten years to see all the exhibits from the collection of the most famous museum in St. ...
14-03-2022
Robert Doisneau — the man who has sung Paris photos
Robert Doisneau (FR. Robert Doisneau 14 April 1912 — 1 April 1994) was a French photographer, master of French humanist ...
14-03-2022
The collapse of the "Black Man": how the reckoning overtook ...
On April 17, 1957, KGB officers in civilian clothes arrived at the dormitory of the Gorkommunzhilstroy trust in the city of ...
14-03-2022
The youngest mother in history is a 5-year-old girl from Peru
At the age of five, Lina Medina seemed to suffer from some kind of disease, because her stomach was rapidly increasing in size. ...