History

10-03-2022
Cross yourself. Pray. Have fun
A selection of retro photographs from the 20th century that make it clear that the love of God does not exclude the love of ...

10-03-2022
29 evidence that the disco era was the most insane in the history
The seventies of the last century, firmly associated with the club culture and disco music. It was a time of enjoyment, night of ...

10-03-2022
Rare color photos of pre-war Germany
Long before Germany was destroyed the First and Second world wars, it was a country of peaceful beauty, Gothic splendour and ...

09-03-2022
The twentieth century in the lens of the famous writer Jack ...
Most people when you mention the name Jack London remembers that he was a popular American writer, author of about 50 books, ...

09-03-2022
What did the first beauty treatments look like
We know something about the features of women's fitness a century ago, and today we will arrange a tour of the beauty salons of the ...

09-03-2022
12 interesting and little-known photos from our history
Today you have a seat on the train to the past, to the most touching, beautiful, and intriguing moments of history. Call it modern ...

09-03-2022
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 ...

09-03-2022
Oriental beauty Princess Lalla nuzha of Morocco and its ...
In 1964, the 24 year-old sister of the king of Morocco, Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla nuzha married Ahmed Ben Mohammed Osman, a ...

09-03-2022
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 ...

09-03-2022
Jokes of Joseph Stalin
According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Joseph Stalin was a very witty man. Characteristic situations were described in his ...

09-03-2022
The World Tax and 9 more incredible taxes from around the world
Back in the XVIII century, Benjamin Franklin said that nothing is inevitable in life except death and taxes. Moreover, the latter ...

08-03-2022
Another Gagarin
Today, 9 March, would have turned 87 years old our first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. We present images from his personal life to the ...

08-03-2022
The history of the discovery of the Aureus
In the night from 16 to 17 September 1899 at the Kharkov Institute for noble maidens it has taken now several pupils. They suffered ...

08-03-2022
Afghanistan in the 60-70s in the pictures of a French ...
In 1969, Afghanistan was not at all like the place torn apart by war and terrorists that it is today. French photographer Francois ...

08-03-2022
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 ...

08-03-2022
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 ...

08-03-2022
A few days before the tragedy: the last photos of Sharon Tate
In the early 60s, Sharon was a dazzling beauty. Her father, an officer, decided to give his daughter the opportunity to become an ...

08-03-2022
The eerie reality of Irish shelters where women who became ...
Clutching a small bag of things in her hand, Sheila O'Brien (Sheila O’Bryne) said goodbye to her parents, took a deep breath ...

07-03-2022
Working life: unknown color photos of everyday life in the ...
Semyon Osipovich Friedland was a Soviet photographer from Kiev. He was born in 1905 into a family of Jewish shoemakers. Originally ...

07-03-2022
Old postcard for March 8
Greeting card for March 8 — is another story. We collected the card, cut out their figures and made an application that was ...

07-03-2022
Least True Movies Based on True Stories
Truth in cinema has more to do with performance than with correcting historical facts. If the action rings true and you believe the ...

07-03-2022
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 ...

07-03-2022
Farewell of an American woman. Pennsylvania Station. 1943
Back in 1943, LIFE magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstadt went to Penn Station to take a series of photos of the military saying ...

07-03-2022
The history of the garter, the most exciting accessory of a ...
Women's dress for centuries, gradually turned into a fetish, a symbol of victory of love. Fashion historian Mariana Skuratovskaya ...

07-03-2022
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 ...

07-03-2022
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 ...