History

23-10-2021
Iconic photos of Max Alpert about the history of the USSR
The people and events captured on film become part of history, telling us the truthful facts about how "it all really happened." In ...

23-10-2021
15 times Kate Middleton and Megan Markle were dressed ...
No matter what the reason, Kate Middleton and Megan Markle seem to always have the right outfit. And quite often they shared ...

23-10-2021
The most depraved scenes in the history of art
Do you think that pornography has appeared quite recently? And here it is not! The fantasy of our distant ancestors went far beyond ...

23-10-2021
An amazing story about the boy Lev
A story that all of us should know. In one Moscow school, a boy stopped going to classes. He doesn't go for a week, Leva didn't ...

23-10-2021
Sergey Krikalev is the most famous Russian cosmonaut after ...
In February 1994, the first flight of a Russian cosmonaut on an American spacecraft took place. This was the flight of Sergei ...

23-10-2021
20 stunning black and white photos of Italian screen stars of ...
A wonderful selection of pictures taken by one of the first Italian paparazzi, and later by the star photographer Tazio ...

23-10-2021
The Captain from Kepenik: how the shoemaker robbed the Town ...
When Kaiser Wilhelm learned the story of the captain from Kepenik, he laughed until tears came. He personally pardoned a man who ...

22-10-2021
How the Belarusian Jew Meyer Lansky became the criminal king ...
Meyer Lansky is one of the most successful gangsters in the history of the United States. He was born into a poor Jewish family, ...

22-10-2021
The story of Sir William Stead, a fighter against pedophiles, ...
In Britain of the 19th century, girls who reached the age of 13 were recognized as adults. This was not at all surprising, because ...

22-10-2021
Tunisia of the late 19th century on old colored postcards
These magnificent colored postcards show Tunisia in all its splendor: here are busy streets, impressive architecture, and just the ...

22-10-2021
Princess Diana in bicycles in the photo of the 1990s
Princess Diana, who was called the people's princess, was a favorite of the British. She was a princess, a volunteer and a fashion ...

21-10-2021
Hijacked a tank and swung with Stallone — how our ...
In the OldSchoolCool section on Reddit, users share bright stylish photos of their grandparents, from whom you can learn the love ...

21-10-2021
Two Da Vinci's "Giocondes", a newly made face of the sphinx ...
After all, Socrates was an intelligent man. "I know I don't know anything"—how true that is. You can live for a thousand years, ...

21-10-2021
Retrofoto from the series "What the fuck?!"
Analyzing old archives, you can stumble upon something that involuntarily raises a natural question: "What the hell is this?!" ...

21-10-2021
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 ...

20-10-2021
Money, infidelity, arrests, syphilis: the lives of six wives ...
What's it like to be the wife of the number one criminal? Someone replaced their spouses in business and unleashed criminal wars, ...

20-10-2021
Treasures electrician Ilyina, or How the Soviet collector and ...
When in 1993 in the Ukrainian city of Kirovohrad died a pensioner Alexander Borisovich Ilyin, nobody could even imagine that he ...

19-10-2021
Marina Tsvetaeva's great love: 5 beloved poetesses who ...
The whole life of the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva was spent on the edge of a nerve, every event was reflected in her work, every ...

19-10-2021
The fate of the imprisoned "Stranger". By stage to Siberia
About the amazing fate of Sofia Kramskoy, the daughter of the artist I.N. Kramskoy, who posed for the painting "Stranger". About ...

19-10-2021
"Blood opening": what is the essence of bloodletting ...
Nowadays, a person has access to modern medical technologies and methods of treatment, and often even has the opportunity to choose ...

19-10-2021
Luxury tattoos of the Victorian era: cherubs, dragons and ...
We are used to seeing unbearably serious people in decent closed clothes in old photographs. But there are also such pictures where ...

19-10-2021
When her husband the Emperor, but a pervert: as the ...
The daughter of Kyiv Prince Vsevolod Eupraxia was married at the age of 12. Kiev chronicler her laconic mother, became a wife, ...

19-10-2021
Chinatown in San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake
Between 1839 and 1860, due to the ongoing opium wars, many Chinese left for the United States in search of a better life, attracted ...

19-10-2021
The 11 Greatest Practical Jokes of All Time that have Misled ...
For those who think that the drawing of a friend in a hostel on April 1 is something impressive, there is clearly something to ...

19-10-2021
Why used to hunt on horseback in the forests, but today it is ...
In the old paintings we see that earlier in the forests they hunted in large companies and on horseback. At the same time, it all ...

19-10-2021
How the "Steel Grandfather" Gustav Hokansson put cycling ...
Sometimes ordinary people, accustomed to hard daily work, are able to put titled athletes behind their belts. This was the case ...