History
20-08-2021
The tallest man on earth lived in the Russian Empire
Almost the whole world knew Fyodor Andreevich Makhnov at one time. The fact is that he was the tallest person. With a weight of 182 ...
20-08-2021
Why people in Spain run from bulls: the history of the San ...
Every year in the middle of summer, videos and photos from the San Fermin Festival, which takes place in the Spanish city of ...
20-08-2021
Lawyer of God: lawyer from Kenya demands to punish those ...
Ostap Ibragimovich Bender in the novel "The Golden Calf" planned to seize power in Denmark: "Why did the Danes torture their Prince ...
20-08-2021
"Fruit machine" for gays and other conspiracy theories that ...
Recently, conspiracy theories and everything that, one way or another, concerns conspiracies have become popular. People talk about ...
19-08-2021
What did household appliances of the last century look like
Since a person began to wear clothes, he faced the question of how to wash them. The need for washing clothes has existed at all ...
19-08-2021
What did the very first gadgets look like, without which we ...
Today's generation of children can no longer imagine a smartphone not with a touch screen, but with buttons. And the first phone in ...
19-08-2021
Born in a shirt: 10 amazing rescue cases that are hard to believe
There is such an expression "to be born in a shirt". This is usually said about a person who manages to avoid difficulties and even ...
19-08-2021
"British pet Massacre": why people voluntarily killed 750,000 ...
Fear, fuss, panic, mass hysteria… All these are invariable companions of war. When the newspapers write about the approaching ...
19-08-2021
How popular Soviet cartoons were created
Anyway, the best cartoons of Soviet childhood can be safely called the creativity of the Soyuzmultfilm studio. Over the years of ...
19-08-2021
The times when there were no iPads yet, and children were ...
The technologies of the XXI century have become firmly embedded not only in our lives, but also in the lives of our children. Now ...
19-08-2021
British subcultures of the 1970s and 1990s
Gavin Watson's photographs depicting participants in the youth subcultures of England in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Mostly ...
19-08-2021
Why do the French kiss the village waitress on the fifth point
Perhaps some time on vacation, animators offered you to play bowls on the beach. A simple game in which you need to throw your ball ...
18-08-2021
About ugly women, or "I won't drink that much"
A Pikabu user under the nickname vad. nes shared his rather contradictory opinion about how much women's appearance has changed ...
18-08-2021
Gay bars of the XVIII century: a pleasure that could have ...
Being caught in the so-called "molly's houses" was not just dangerous — in the XVIII century it could easily lead a man to the ...
17-08-2021
Corrupt love during the war: rare photos of British soldiers ...
These images were digitized from negatives that once belonged to Lieutenant William Noel Morgan (William Noel Morgan). His ...
17-08-2021
Louis XIV: The God-given Sun King who ruined France
Louis XIV de Bourbon, who was named Louis the God-given at birth, will forever remain in history as the most luxurious European ...
15-08-2021
The 10 Most Creepy ways to hide your face
Since the man came up with clothes, he constantly tried to cover his face as well. The reasons for this were different every ...
14-08-2021
15 atmospheric photos from the LIFE archive for the Woodstock ...
50 years ago, from August 15 to 18, 1969, in Woodstock, New York, the music festival "Fair of Music and Arts" or simply Woodstock ...
13-08-2021
12 photos proving that the beauty of previous generations is ...
You will probably agree with the idea that photographs from past centuries have some charm. Yes, in the past, photographs were ...
13-08-2021
Ms. Zheng: as a prostitute became Queen of Chinese pirates
The sea is still, you are a woman or a man, if you can hold in their hands an army of 70,000. Chinese Chin si could — she started ...
11-08-2021
20 photos from the secret Masonic party in 1972, from which ...
On December 12, 1972, Marie-Helene de Rothschild, a member of the most influential family among the world's nobility, arranged a ...
10-08-2021
10 most famous womanizers in history
Men from this list went down in history not only as great commanders and rulers but also as famous womanizers and lovers. Here is a ...
09-08-2021
TV series from childhood: top 4 action movies that can not be ...
There are things that seem to exist outside of time. The past years have even made them better, like wine. And there are movies and ...
08-08-2021
Find out where your home would have been at a time when ...
Have you ever wondered where you would have lived in the era of dinosaurs? A scientist from California has created an interactive ...
04-08-2021
Sex and syphilis: how Ivan the Terrible, Maupassant and ...
The famous personalities of the past were just people. Someone drank, someone was not averse to quarreling, and someone loved sex ...
01-08-2021
Pioneers: what models did the history of automakers begin with
In every person's life, the first, uncertain step is always also the most important. With cars, exactly the same parsley. Without ...