History
08.01.22
Walk in St. Petersburg 1993
07-01-2022
Facial tattoos are a sacred tradition of Maori women
Maori women are traditionally tattooed on the chin during adolescence. This drawing, called "moko kauae", is considered a visual ...
07-01-2022
Mae West is a scandalous actress who became America's first ...
Once, as a joke, Mae West said that she should be given a license to invent sex, which she discovered for Americans. The name of ...
06-01-2022
"Larechnaya" Moscow, which we have lost
Yes, stalls and tents - it was convenient. You get out of the subway, and you have a choice of hundreds of goods: socks, thread, ...
06-01-2022
7 well-known brands that did not start with those goods that ...
Time not only changes the appearance and habits of the people, but also force us to drastically change some things. To them ...
06-01-2022
What do the famous handsome men who drove the girls of the ...
Every girl knew all these actors and musicians in the 1990s, and every second was a fervent fan of one of them. But time goes by, ...
06-01-2022
The plague of overweight: a LIFE story about weight loss ...
There was in the world, in the United States of the late 1940s, years nurse. And her name was Dorothy Bradley. Poor Dorothy weighed ...
06-01-2022
What was London like before Banksy: street art of the 80s
In the 80s, a craze for street art began in the British capital. More and more graffiti began to appear on the streets: from ...
06-01-2022
Why pirates are depicted with parrots
In our view, a classic pirate is a stern man with a wooden leg, an eye patch, armed to the teeth and with a parrot on his shoulder. ...
05-01-2022
The Last Days of Feudal Japan
These rare pictures tell about what life was like in Japan in 1908, before industrialization and the two world wars. And this life ...
05-01-2022
Buddhist Monk's Self-Immolation: The Flame that changed the World
Thit Quang Duc is a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, who went down in history and became a symbol of the struggle for equality of ...
05-01-2022
The birth of a legend: how did Mickey Mouse come up?
What do you know about Mickey Mouse? In fact, this famous and beloved character has its own long and interesting history. Mickey ...
04-01-2022
The first candid shooting of a young Kate moss, Angelina ...
Examined the archives in search of rare shots of our favorite celebrities. And not simple, and almost erotic! The age of many stars ...
04-01-2022
The spirit of the ancestors: in a Papuan tribe smoked mummies ...
Papua New Guinea continues to amaze the primitive culture of their own peoples. Italian photographer managed to capture the unusual ...
04-01-2022
Women who ruled Paris from bed: a scandalous catalog with ...
In the 19th century, prostitution was legal in France. For the convenience of customers, each district of Paris published a booklet ...
04-01-2022
What the business class of a Swiss airline looked like in the 60s
The Swiss airline Swissair recently published a photo from its archives of the 60s. Passengers in those days flew like kings: ...
03-01-2022
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 ...
03-01-2022
He will never refuse. History of Zippo
In 1933, the first mass-produced Zippo lighter was released. Over 88 years, more than half a million lighters have been sold, and ...
03-01-2022
The Black Dragon of Nicholas II – the secret of the ...
Tattooed monarchs were not uncommon in the West. Russia is a completely different matter. Our drawings on the skin have long been ...
03-01-2022
Why the name Svetlana is not recognized by the Church
The formation of Russian names occurred centuries under the influence of many factors and cultures. Despite this, our imenoslov ...
03-01-2022
The mind-blowing "Rotor– is a rotating attraction of the ...
Nowadays in amusement parks you can find attractions for every taste. Fortunately, today the organizers carefully monitor the ...
02-01-2022
The phenomenon of the Russian hand-to-hand combat, or 70 wins ...
Even during the Napoleonic wars Russian hand to hand combat to induce the enemy of horror. But over time, the technique was ...
02-01-2022
Pages of life of ordinary and poor Americans in New York of ...
When you imagine New York, the so-called "Big Apple", bright neon signs pop up in your mind, streets filled with pedestrians, where ...
02-01-2022
The contrasts of Afghanistan: the end of the 1920-ies and the ...
Manicured gardens, majestic historic buildings and picturesque mountain ranges — these pictures cover a piece of history of ...
02-01-2022
Why Russian surnames have different endings?
We all know that the real Russian names end in "-in" or "s". In a pinch, in "-EV" or "likewise." Why do these groups of names one ...
01-01-2022
Blond Sirte: the vanished people of the shamans who lived in ...
Among the Russian who migrated to the North, there existed legends about the mysterious people of the white-eyed Chud, who was ...
01-01-2022
Eunuchs of the Sultan's court: a brilliant career in exchange ...
In the Middle Ages in the countries of the East, a slave, demonstrating wisdom and loyalty to the ruler, could become one of the ...