History
05.11.23
The blue color has its own legends
04-11-2023
How cats went to sea
Who said cats don't like water? Well, maybe they don’t like it, but they’re certainly not afraid. And these old photographs ...
03-11-2023
Rostov "Fantomas": The bloody history of the Tolstopyatov ...
The gang of "Fantomas" kept Rostov-on-Don in fear for five long years. This gang has 14 armed robberies and several human lives on ...
03-11-2023
The mysterious and traceless disappearance of cyclist Tara Kaliko
On September 2, 1988, Tara Calico, a resident of the small town of Belen, New Mexico, USA, went for a bike ride. When the ...
03-11-2023
Miracle Lee Kuan yew or Singapore tackle corruption and ...
Singapore was not always a prosperous state. Today it is called a miracle, and millions of tourists and entrepreneurs are choosing ...
03-11-2023
Pierre de Bayard - a knight without fear or reproach, who ...
In combination with the word “knight” we often hear the expression “without fear or reproach.” But was it really like that? ...
03-11-2023
Ruth Orkin's legendary photo series "An American Woman in ...
Photographer Ruth Orkin became famous thanks to the picture "An American woman in Italy", taken by her in 1951. On it she captured ...
03-11-2023
The Aztec god Xochipilli turned out to be the patron saint of ...
If the ancient gods had a rather narrow specialization, then the American ones were famous for their diverse interests. The Aztecs, ...
03-11-2023
Riding an electric car: how the passengers of the Titanic and ...
The journey from Europe to America on an ocean liner at the beginning of the XX century took almost a week. It is clear that the ...
03-11-2023
Partisan Simon Seguan: how a girl in shorts became a symbol ...
18-year-old Simone Segouin, also known under the pseudonym Nicole Minet, was determined to rid France of fascism. She joined the ...
03-11-2023
The Mysterious Murder of Two Mary Morriss - Serial Killer or ...
In the history of American criminology there are many mysterious crimes that have not yet been solved. One of them is the murder of ...
02-11-2023
Harems of the Middle Kingdom: hierarchy, recorded sex and ...
Turkish and Persian harems are well known to everyone, many poems and novels have been written about them, as well as historical ...
02-11-2023
How Fyre Festival became the worst music festival in history
Tickets to the Fyre Festival music festival cost several thousand dollars. The event promised to be grandiose, but something went ...
02-11-2023
The touching story of Mikhail Lomonosov's German love
Many great people had a peculiar idea of relationships and were not particularly loyal. The Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov ...
02-11-2023
Why Sophia Loren didn't shave her armpits at the peak of ...
Despite the fact that Sophia Loren is now 88 years old, she is still popular and discussed. There are a huge number of photographs ...
02-11-2023
The story of Baldwin IV — the leper king "without a face", ...
Kings in all times is called sun and the subjects should have been familiar with his monarch in the face. But there is in history ...
02-11-2023
6 reasons why ancient statues have such small penises
Many are surprised to note that the ancient statues of gods and heroes have catastrophically small penises. It seemed that the cult ...
02-11-2023
Never give up! The story of the Englishman who died and ...
In April 1943, off the coast of the Spanish town of Huelva, fishermen picked up a drowned man in the uniform of a British Marine ...
01-11-2023
Stone Serpent Monastery: Why did Bram Stoker love Whitby Abbey?
If Dracula had decided to emigrate from his native Transylvania to the foggy Albion, he would probably have chosen Whitby Abbey as ...
01-11-2023
Soviet intelligence officer laughs before being shot — and ...
We offer you to remember the Second World War with the help of nine amazing photos. Some may even seem like perfectly ordinary ...
01-11-2023
Why do the French kiss the village waitress on the fifth point
Perhaps some day on vacation animators offered you to play balls on the beach. A simple game in which you want to throw your ball ...
01-11-2023
The story of the Lady of the Clock, or How a British family ...
Modern watches are fairly accurate devices. But in the 19th century everything was different. Mechanical watches lagged a little ...
01-11-2023
20 crazy inventions of the past that baffle us
The XX century is replete with inventions that have turned our lives upside down: television, computer, airplane. However, among ...
01-11-2023
The King of scammers — how Victor Lustig was able to sell ...
Victor Lustig is considered one of the most skillful and famous scammers in the world. He was arrested about 50 times and released ...
31-10-2023
How were the fates of the beauties from the portraits of ...
Looking at the paintings of famous portraitists, you involuntarily think about the heroines of these canvases. Who were they-the ...
31-10-2023
How and when did the Jews appear in Russia
It is known that Jews have been living on the territory of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus since time immemorial. Surprisingly, the ...
31-10-2023
Pioneers, which models did the history of automakers begin with
In every person's life, the first, uncertain step is always also the most important. With cars exactly the same parsley. Without ...