History
28-11-2021
Fabulous photochromes of 1900s New York
The stunning photochromic postcards released by the Detroit Publishing Company showcase 1900s New York in all its colorful splendor.
28-11-2021
What did the beauties of tsarist Russia look like
The concepts of female beauty change every few decades — different types of figures, aristocratic faces and other signs of a ...
27-11-2021
Mysterious Indochina: 100 years ago
The Indochina Peninsula, located in southeast Asia, is a favorite destination for tourists all over the world. Myanmar, Thailand, ...
27-11-2021
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 ...
27-11-2021
Mistress of Africa Al-Kahina: The witch the Arabs feared
In the Islamic world, men reign supreme and their authority is unshakable. Therefore, the Arab chronicles, which describe the ...
27-11-2021
Why do bras have a bow sewn on the front
We have already talked about how a small bow appeared on women's underpants. But the secrets of women's underwear did not end ...
26-11-2021
Color photographs of women of the Russian Empire at the ...
This amazing collection of color portraits shows women of different classes from different regions of imperialist Russia at the ...
26-11-2021
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 ...
26-11-2021
Sold into slavery and killed in the Alps, what was the end of ...
In 1212, Europe has gone mad. Was started the next crusade to Jerusalem. This time to liberate the Holy Sepulchre has gathered the ...
26-11-2021
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 ...
26-11-2021
Love and the bomb: how, because of problems in the family, a ...
On August 17, 1988, a Tu-154B plane with 176 people on board took off from Kiev to Kuibyshev (now Samara). Among them was ...
25-11-2021
Incredible examples before and after restoring old photos ...
Sometimes one photo can be the last physical connection, the last straw between two people, which gradually, unfortunately, ...
25-11-2021
How the prostitutes of New Orleans lived 100 years ago
From luxurious palaces to crumbling huts, these 1912 black-and-white photographs show how New Orleans prostitutes lived a hundred ...
24-11-2021
Reincarnation exists? Twins of celebrities from the past
The belief that people live on land, some lives seem quite reasonable when you look at these pictures. Recently at the University ...
24-11-2021
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 ...
23-11-2021
Black Maria: like a French fortune-teller predicted the death ...
There are amazing people who do not like history and think that history — it's boring, unclear and uninteresting. But writer ...
23-11-2021
Russian Amazons and German vampires: 7 world-famous criminal ...
Most crimes are committed by men, but some women are not a step behind them. These bandits received sentences and went down in ...
23-11-2021
The last secret of the Great Alexander: where did two ...
By the age of 30, Alexander, the son of King Philip of Macedon, had become the ruler of a vast empire from Greece to India. Even ...
23-11-2021
12 rivers that changed the course of history
Of the tens of thousands of rivers crossing the Earth's surface, a select few have shaped the course of human history. From the ...
23-11-2021
What were the school supplies in the Soviet Union
Politsvet pencils, metal rulers and protractors, wooden pencil cases and the famous Kohinor pencils - let's remember together what ...
22-11-2021
Moments of the past: how did a young lady of 100 years ago
Concepts of beauty change and behaviour undergo significant changes, and over time from the past no trace remains. Only written ...
22-11-2021
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 ...
21-11-2021
Vivid pictures of everyday life in Thailand in the 1970s
Thailand has now become for many both a place for a beach holiday, and a country where you can taste delicious dishes, and a place ...
21-11-2021
The Golden cage: how the life of Russian tsarinas
In Imperial times women had no power over him. The sphere of influence of the peasant and the boyar wives was limited to raising ...
21-11-2021
How venereal diseases were treated in the old days: lead ...
Despite the fact that sexually transmitted diseases have been known for more than one century, they were effectively treated ...
21-11-2021
Braveheart: 7 women to whom we should be grateful for the ...
One of the main achievements of the XX century is the establishment of equality between people. Including gender equality. And, of ...