History
22-10-2023
How the "City of the Dead" appeared in the Dargava Gorge, ...
There are many mysterious places covered with legends on the world map. There are also truly mystical ones among them, where a ...
22-10-2023
Will a woman be able to bear and give birth to a Neanderthal
Neanderthals who disappeared from the face of the Earth about 30 thousand. years ago, they are considered the closest relatives of ...
22-10-2023
The Amazing story of Josephine Myrtle Corbin, a four—legged ...
Josephine Myrtle Corbin was incredibly popular during her lifetime, and after her death her grave had to be filled with concrete. ...
22-10-2023
Anna Pavlova and other beauties of Tsarist Russia in ...
This collection contains very different women: actresses and college girls, revolutionaries and aristocrats, ballerinas and ...
22-10-2023
Photos from the past that are worth seeing
The phrase "a picture instead of a thousand words" was coined by the American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. These ...
21-10-2023
Creepy ghost villages of Dagestan: photos and videos from drones
There are several abandoned ghost villages in the Republic of Dagestan-Gamsutl, Kahib and Koroda. The village of Gamsutl is located ...
21-10-2023
Ivan Rykov's Skopinsky Bank: the first pyramid in Russia, ...
Everyone knows how financial pyramids work these days. But few people know that this is not such a modern way of cheating. At the ...
21-10-2023
The order of Malta and the Vatican – the smallest state in ...
The famous state of Vatican city is not the only country located in the centre of Rome. Even in the Italian capital is the order of ...
21-10-2023
How nuclear weapons were tested in front of the public in ...
At 10 a.m. on October 22, 1964, a five-kiloton nuclear weapon was detonated in Lamar County, Mississippi. A year earlier, in ...
21-10-2023
A terrible diagnosis or a clever scam? 24 personalities of ...
Billy Milligan is one of the most famous people diagnosed with multiple personality. In his mind, 24 different people "lived" at ...
21-10-2023
The collection is simple and stunning photographs of the ...
The past has passed and will never return, but examining a bundle of old pictures, you can again feel an attack on paper and light ...
21-10-2023
One Ilyich and three Stalinodars: four attempts to rename Moscow
Renaming cities, streets, parks, sidewalks was one of the main entertainments of the Soviet nomenclature. Thousands of toponyms ...
20-10-2023
A curious Barbarian had her nose torn off at the bazaar, or ...
The statue of Venus de Milo without hands is a symbol of the era of ancient Greece. The sculpture of a pharaoh without a nose is ...
20-10-2023
How a Jewish boy Ilya Halperin became the son of an SS ...
In October 1941, five-year-old Ilya Galperin witnessed the execution of the people closest to him-his mother, sister and brother. ...
20-10-2023
How Britain's trade with Russia influenced the history of ...
We are used to the fact that all the most advanced and high-quality products come to us from other countries. But this was not ...
20-10-2023
The story of a brave girl Sophie Scholl, executed by the ...
On February 20, 1943, at the main headquarters, Hitler listened to a report by Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler. Among the various ...
20-10-2023
Deadly bet: How to land a plane blindly and kill 70 people
This tragedy occurred on October 20, 1986 when landing at Kuibyshev airport. A monstrous case. Probably, it has no analogues in ...
20-10-2023
Did everyone wake up on Monday?
Knocker-up or Knocker-upper is a forgotten profession in England and Ireland, which consisted in waking people up to work. It ...
20-10-2023
Luxury flight in the seventies on a Boeing 747
Air travel has experienced its golden age. Once upon a time, planes had much more space, a stylish interior, and a brighter design. ...
19-10-2023
8 incredible scenes from historical films that actually happened
The creators of historical films often conjure up some moments to make the plot more exciting. But in this collection you will find ...
19-10-2023
How they lit up at parties in the 1970s
A selection of warm lamp vintage photos from the distant 70s. Chic, glitter, beauty, alcohol and dancing at retro parties of the ...
19-10-2023
Nuclear tourism in the USA, or How the nuclear test site ...
The American city of Las Vegas, located in the heart of the Mojave Desert, has been attracting gamblers and fans of enchanting ...
18-10-2023
Crazy beauty techniques from the past that make the hair ...
Over time, ideas about female beauty have changed, and sometimes the words "beauty requires sacrifice" had the most literal ...
18-10-2023
The story of Ginny, a dog with a heart of gold, who once ...
We all know the saying "Live like a cat with a dog." In our view, dogs must not tolerate cats and oppress them in every possible ...
18-10-2023
Amazakhs are indigenous light—skinned Africans related to ...
It is generally believed that the indigenous population of Africa are people with dark skin or, at least, very dark and ...
18-10-2023
The biggest woman and the smallest man - the story of one ...
There is often an old photograph on the Internet in which a large lady with a bouffant hairstyle is holding a tiny man in a suit ...