History
11-11-2021
Where the children of the Sodder family disappeared: a ...
On Christmas Night in 1945, the Sodder family's house in Fayetteville, West Virginia, was engulfed in flames. The house burned to ...
10-11-2021
Vintage luxury: as passenger flights looked in the 50s
In today's world you kind of forget about how it was cool to fly on iron bird in the sky. But in the 50's people have not been ...
10-11-2021
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 ...
10-11-2021
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. ...
10-11-2021
11 rare shots from the construction of the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was designed by Frederic Bartholdi together with engineer Gustave Eiffel (who worked on the frame). It was ...
09-11-2021
Evolution of the Victoria's Secret Underwear Catalog
Victoria's Secret underwear brand was founded in 1977 by a guy named Roy Raymond, who wanted to create a place where you could buy ...
09-11-2021
Why did Catherine II plan to introduce polygamy in the ...
Empress Catherine II came from her native Prussian hinterland to distant snow-covered Russia as a child. 15-year-old ...
09-11-2021
"Purification" of blood: the secret project of the Nazis to ...
As you know, the ideology of the Third Reich was based on the postulate of the superiority of the Aryan race over all others. The ...
09-11-2021
The unchildlike secret of the "Golden Key", or Why Malvina ...
The fairy tale "The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio" is probably familiar to everyone. Moreover, everyone knows that the ...
09-11-2021
The airship that could: how a German aircraft broke the ...
More than a hundred years ago, the legendary flight of the Zeppelin LZ 104 airship, also known as the "African Ship", was made. The ...
09-11-2021
Edvard Munch and Vincent Van Gogh: parallels
The Dutchman Vincent Van Gogh and the Norwegian Edvard Munch have never met, despite the fact that they created their outstanding ...
09-11-2021
The 24 Most Ruthless Leaders in human history
"One man's hero is another man's villain!" says a well-known aphorism. No matter how much someone emphasizes the effectiveness and ...
09-11-2021
"Tatu", "Guests from the Future" and other duets from the 90s ...
Yura Usachev and Eva Polna. Lovers from the duo "Nepara". What was the fate of the stage duets that collected stadiums in the past? ...
09-11-2021
She fought with swords, kissed women and set fire to a ...
France, XVII century, the court of Louis XIV. Imagine a handsome man with a sword: he fights duels, kisses beautiful women, sings ...
09-11-2021
The country of poor billionaires: how inflation got Germans ...
After the First World War, Germany found itself in an economic hole. For the maintenance of the army, the government recruited ...
09-11-2021
Faces of British crime of the XIX century
What did the petty criminals of the XIX century look like? We offer you a look at the faces of English prisoners held in a penal ...
08-11-2021
Harbin: an amazing history of a Chinese city with Russian roots
The capital of the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, Harbin, is located at a considerable distance from the border with Russia. ...
08-11-2021
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 ...
07-11-2021
Ancient action movie: The incredible retreat of 10 thousand ...
One of the most interesting documents left by the ancient Greeks is a work called "The Anabasis of Cyrus", translated from the ...
07-11-2021
Then and now: 25 photos of comparisons, which will force us ...
The ability to look at familiar things from a new angle is priceless. Sometimes to truly understand the phenomenon, it is necessary ...
06-11-2021
The heirs to the Russian throne: who are they-the modern ...
By the beginning of 1917, the Russian Imperial House numbered 65 men, of whom 17 were killed. The rest of the Romanovs were able to ...
06-11-2021
Why Walt Disney shows two fingers in all his photos
Studying the history of the Disney company, you can notice an unusual thing: the founder of the company Walter Elias Disney in the ...
06-11-2021
9 creations invented by women who changed the world for the ...
Women are accustomed to facing hardships, with which they face the labor market and in everyday life as a whole, which is ...
06-11-2021
World war Bronze age: who won the first battle in European ...
Historians believed that during the Bronze age, Northern Europe was a backward region. However, findings on the German river ...
06-11-2021
For that, the last master of the knights Templar cursed the ...
On January 21 1793, the French revolutionaries beheaded king Louis XVI of the Bourbon. Someone in the crowd shouted that the master ...
06-11-2021
"Worn to the holes": sights that are mercilessly destroyed ...
The custom of rubbing statues and monuments is known all over the world. At the same time, no one can say when it was born and what ...