History

18-07-2021
The cure for all diseases: female circumcision in Victorian ...
"The state of excitation, which occurred very often after the operation is completely gone, the wound completely healed, the ...

18-07-2021
They wrote Dexter from him: about the life of a psychopathic ...
On his account, hundreds of people were killed and his own father's heart was eaten. He struck terror into everyone around him and ...

18-07-2021
He despised women and killed his mother: the real face of the ...
Many popular cartoons were created at the Walt Disney Studio. But Disney himself, according to the reviews of his relatives, was ...

17-07-2021
What hairstyle was in fashion in the year of your birth: the ...
Trends are constantly changing, but often new is well forgotten old. Let's bring back some nostalgia? Find out what kind of styling ...

16-07-2021
How to assess the strength and intensity of earthquakes
On January 30, 1935, the American seismologist Charles Richter proposed a new way to describe the power of earthquakes, known today ...

15-07-2021
10 inventions of the ancient Romans that changed the world
Despite the fact that the Roman Empire is more than 2,000 years old, its contribution to the world continues today. We usually ...

14-07-2021
Harsh Romania of the 90s, where flocks of sheep blocked busy ...
Like the governments of all socialist countries, the Romanian Communists really wanted to surpass the Western countries in terms of ...

14-07-2021
What did Canadian prostitutes of the 1940s look like
In the first half of the XX century, the Canadian city of Montreal was known as the capital of sex tourism in North America. ...

14-07-2021
These 13 sci-fi books actually predicted the future
Does science fiction represent the future, or is it just inspiring future discoveries?

14-07-2021
Why suicide that occurred in England from the early 20th ...
In September 1905 a small English town of Wickford, Essex, was shaken by a horrible event. 24-year-old wife of the priest of the ...

14-07-2021
35 years in a wedding dress: the story of a love-crazed Eliza ...
Eliza Emily Donnithorne could have lived a happy and peaceful life, but instead she spent more than 35 years in seclusion and died ...

13-07-2021
Belyany: perhaps the most unique river vessels in the world
If you ask what the belyans are, then few people will answer this question. But only some 100 years ago, these giant ships sailed ...

13-07-2021
Looked like the processed photos before the Photoshop era
Now very few people without photo editor and before publication of the picture in social networks it is certainly processed in ...

13-07-2021
Photos from the past that are worth seeing
The phrase "a picture instead of a thousand words" was coined by the American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. These ...

12-07-2021
How our grandmothers used to quadrille men
We bring to your attention a dozen tips published by the British edition of The Daily Mail, which were relevant before the outbreak ...

11-07-2021
Picnic on the Pyramids: tourists in Giza during the British ...
In the July heat, Egypt was finally opened to Russians: Vladimir Putin canceled the decree of 2015 that banned charter flights to ...

11-07-2021
12 facts about the favorite children's fiction "Guest from ...
For more than 35 years, the five-part film "Guest from the Future" has been one of the important elements of nostalgia for Soviet ...

10-07-2021
12 masterpieces by Robert Falk, one of the first artists of ...
Falk changed his style several times throughout his creative years. Either in fashion or in disgrace, he has always remained ...

10-07-2021
7 legendary beauties who were proclaimed witches
Many people envied these women. Beauty and an extraordinary mind made detractors accuse them of witchcraft. And it cost some their ...

10-07-2021
"You can't love on the phone": the dramatic fate of comedian ...
Lucille Ball was an iconic figure in the film industry and still remains on the list of the best comedy actresses of the twentieth ...

10-07-2021
They were the first: 11 subcompact cars of the early 20th century
Subcompact cars appeared already at the dawn of the formation of the automotive industry. In those distant years, when cars only ...

10-07-2021
A hundred years at lunch: how women washed, cleaned and ...
We are constantly dealing with continuous progress, changes and additions in the field of technology — in particular, these are ...

09-07-2021
4 most strange and perverted myths from the life of the gods ...
Reading ancient legends, myths and legends, you can stumble not only on the epic moments of the victory of good over evil, but also ...

08-07-2021
The Annexed Paradise: The Life and death of the last Princess ...
She was called the "princess of peacocks" at home and the "flower of civilization" - in a foreign land. She could have happily ...

08-07-2021
Secrets of the Kennedy clan: from drugs to deaths
The Kennedy clan is one of the most powerful families of America. According to the degree of influence compare them with the ...

08-07-2021
Crazy beauty techniques from the Past that make the hair ...
Over time, ideas about female beauty changed, and sometimes the words "beauty requires sacrifices" had the most literal meaning. ...