History
09-11-2023
You won't be nice by force, or When in Russia guys were ...
Men who were in no hurry to tie the knot have been at all times and among all peoples. No matter how high family values are in ...
09-11-2023
The history of the most unusual armor — the horned helmet ...
This is not a joke and not a fake. This is a real helmet of the beginning of the XVI century. Moreover, it is the helmet of the ...
09-11-2023
22 things that will easily carry on waves of nostalgia back ...
Do you dream of time travel to plunge back into the long-forgotten atmosphere of a carefree childhood? Fortunately, there are some ...
09-11-2023
15 historical facts that allow you to look at time from a ...
It would seem that execution using the guillotine is something from the very distant past. But it was canceled in the same year ...
09-11-2023
What Volgograd looked like in the 1980s
In 1985, the Moscow publishing house "Soviet Russia" released a large album called "Volgograd", collecting the works of five Soviet ...
09-11-2023
On the waves of memory: how we lived and played in the ...
The yard of our childhood was the concentration of everything, all the fun and games, all the rules and concepts, the yardstick of ...
09-11-2023
How does the toilet work on the plane, or Why it was ...
The elderly Thompson couple, resting on the porch of their home in Florida, were unpleasantly surprised when a viscous liquid, ...
08-11-2023
How did the fashion for huge wigs appear in Europe and what ...
We are all familiar with the image of an aristocrat of the 17th-18th century. Stockings, a lush lace frill collar, buckled shoes, a ...
08-11-2023
"The Curse" by Amadeo Modigliani
The memory of the Italian artist Amadeo Modigliani is imprinted in his strange nickname Modi (from the French maudit — "damned"), ...
08-11-2023
You can see right through the story: the first patients on X-ray
November 8, 1895 is considered the day of the discovery of X-rays by professor and physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. However, few people ...
07-11-2023
Why breast of French Queen Marie Antoinette is remembered ...
You will hardly remember how you looked the wife of the king of France Louis XVI Marie Antoinette, 18th century. But we can ...
07-11-2023
30 colorized historical photos that tell about the events of ...
Colorization is a unique method of "coloring" pictures, which gives historical photographs a second life, and sends us on a journey ...
07-11-2023
The Undertaker's notes: grim details about the state of ...
The owner of the funeral home, who was preparing the body of a Hollywood star for burial, shared shocking details about it in his ...
07-11-2023
Anatomical Venus, on whom pathologists of the XVIII century ...
Anatomical Venus is a life—size female wax figure, usually with real human hair and glass eyes. It was made specifically for ...
07-11-2023
How have ideas about sexuality changed over the last 60 years
On December 1, 1953, the first issue of the men's magazine Playboy with the inimitable Marilyn Monroe on the cover appeared on ...
07-11-2023
Photos taken at a good moment - from an era when it wasn't ...
Photos randomly taken at a very good moment existed before the era of smartphones and digital photography. Photographers captured ...
07-11-2023
Polish Jews through the eyes of Alter Katzizne. Amazing pictures!
There was a man with a funny name Alter Katzizne. He was a writer and playwright, and even a poet in some ways. A couple of his ...
06-11-2023
How nuns struggled with attraction to men
Such a phenomenon as monasticism exists in many world religions. The way of life of monks and nuns implies selfless service to ...
06-11-2023
Mordovian Joan of Arc, the nun Alena Arzamas: ally Stepana ...
This woman combines disparate XVII century things — she was a nun, a rebel and a witch. It is shot from a bow, treat people ...
06-11-2023
The mystery of the Pantheon doors, which weigh 17 tons but ...
The masterpieces of the ancients have repeatedly baffled modern scientists and engineers. What can be created today with the help ...
06-11-2023
Stars of the 80s: young, bright and unbridled
The 1980s were a truly revolutionary decade — in everything related to fashion, music, cinema, etc. Here are some candid (and ...
06-11-2023
Style and swing: what the participants of the Monterey Jazz ...
The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It was founded on ...
05-11-2023
Historical pictures of criminals of the 1930s and 1940s
These pictures and details of the arrest were taken from old news newspapers of the American city of New Castle and allow us to ...
05-11-2023
The tomb of Genghis Khan: why they can’t find the last ...
Genghis Khan was a great warrior and strategist, the founder of the Mongol Empire, whose possessions ran from the southern borders ...
05-11-2023
Then and now: 30 interesting photos that show the passage of time
Our world is changing rapidly, and some photos from the past in comparison with the present tell whole stories of decades in ...
05-11-2023
The blue color has its own legends
Blue paint used to be extracted from the semi-precious mineral lapis lazuli, it was expensive and very valuable, but then an ...