16-06-2023
From Cola to beaver testicles: 9 of the strangest ...
It seems to us that the "magic pill" and condoms have always been there. We are used to being able to independently control ...
16-06-2023
Then and now: 30 photo comparisons that show how the world is ...
Repeating photos of the same places after 10 or even 50 years has now become one of the fashion trends. Such pictures are a real ...
16-06-2023
The Subtle East and the fashionable West: an American's photo ...
Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran was completely different from what it is today. Women dressed in Western fashion, freely ...
16-06-2023
Toma Sankara is the only honest president in history who was ...
Once the African state of Burkina Faso was called Upper Volta and was an overseas territory of France. In the late 50s, Paris gave ...
15-06-2023
"Moral insanity": why Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich ...
Nephew of Emperor Alexander II, Grand Duke Nikolay Konstantinovich Romanov family was considered an outcast. Due to kleptomania he ...
15-06-2023
Remembering... fashionable clothes of the 90s
Fashion of the 90s. A frenzied mix of domestic consumer goods, "branded clothes" brought by shuttles, unimaginable hairstyles and ...
15-06-2023
The worst sex cruise in history: how syphilis got to Europe ...
Syphilis is a terrifying blow to the happy hedonism that Europe was famous for before the era of Puritanism. Who would have thought ...
15-06-2023
Spartans: how the most severe warriors of antiquity lived
Sparta was one of the strongest states of ancient Greece. The rest of the Greeks were amazed at the prowess of the Spartans and the ...
15-06-2023
27 portraits of the era thaw
Today we decided to remember how they lived and looked the Soviet era thaw — those happy ten years that occurred in the lives of ...
14-06-2023
Skeletons in Lady Di's closet, or Why the princess let her ...
The identity of Princess Diana, who died in 1997, is still being debated. Was the "Queen of Hearts" a victim of circumstances or a ...
14-06-2023
10 great ideas that were sold for a penny
Brilliant ideas very often do not seem to be something exceptional at the moment of their appearance. History knows cases when ...
14-06-2023
The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan
Since childhood, we have associated the Wild West with endless prairies, along which brave cowboys jump, shooting back at ...
14-06-2023
Medical instruments of the past – instruments of torture or ...
Modern medicine is amazing. More and more procedures are performed painlessly and quickly. Going to the dentist no longer calls for ...
14-06-2023
What kind of women did men want in 1904
The newspaper "Russian Leaf" was published in Moscow daily from 1890 to 1907. It was positioned as a "daily newspaper of politics, ...
14-06-2023
Features of a Soviet-style wedding celebration
A wedding photo is both an artistic picture, a family heirloom, and a document imbued with the spirit of the times. In our ...
13-06-2023
The medieval murderers, or what is actually the tale about ...
Folklore has always been giperplazirovannom a reflection of the reality in which they lived carriers. The story of the Wolf and ...
13-06-2023
15 interesting facts that will make you unprintable wonder ...
There are things in the world that no one thinks about. But when a person comes across such facts, he usually freezes in amazement. ...
13-06-2023
Photos and secret love letters of Frida Kahlo
The artist, known for her exotic beauty, painted fascinating paintings in which her own personality was imprinted. Frida Kahlo's ...
13-06-2023
Romantic story of 16-year-old drowned from Paris
Dummy for practicing skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation sign of tens of thousands medical students and rescuers. However, few ...
13-06-2023
Photos of Manhattan 1870-1900, when the island was a slum of ...
In the last decades of the XIX century, Lower Manhattan in New York could be safely called the capital of the slums. In those ...
13-06-2023
14 amazing funiculars from around the world
Funiculars are not only one of the most impressive types of transport in terms of panoramas opening from the windows, but also ...
13-06-2023
City of Darkness: The amazing fate of the fortress city of ...
Hundreds of high-rise buildings huddled closely together, narrow passages between them that did not know the sunlight, children ...
12-06-2023
An old vase from my grandmother's closet was estimated at 7 ...
Everyone knows that old Chinese vases are very expensive things for which collectors are willing to pay millions. Unfortunately, ...
12-06-2023
Unfriend and ban: how could one "remove it" before there were ...
In social networks it is very easy to make friends: want — friended by sick — raspandita with him. A slang expression for "hi", ...
12-06-2023
The view from the depths of millennia: how did ancient man ...
Scientists have restored a man who was killed 8000 years ago when, presumably, the ritual of sacrifice. His head separated from his ...
12-06-2023
Vietnam 1915 in color photos
Today, many people have already discovered Vietnam as a new tourist destination, although for most this country remains almost ...