History
01-03-2024
The unsinkable Violet Jessop, who survived three of the ...
For a long time it was believed that a woman on a ship brings bad luck. But, it turns out, there are examples of individuals who ...
01-03-2024
The amazing story of Phineas Gage - the man with the crowbar ...
The possibilities of the human body are incredible. Sometimes people survive injuries that seemed to leave them no chance. One of ...
29-02-2024
The most dangerous a study by British scientists: "operation ...
British scientists over the past few years have become heroes memes, jokes and anecdotes, due to their inexplicable passion for ...
29-02-2024
Why in Russia girls sometimes drowned themselves after their ...
Our ancestors lived by different rules and sometimes it is difficult for us to understand their actions. The further into the ...
29-02-2024
The latest suicide bomber in Britain: what were executed the ...
In the spring of 1955, the British press was enthusiastic murder. On a London street several shots from a revolver, was killed ...
29-02-2024
First-of-its-kind crime scene photos from 1904
The photos of the last century were taken by lawyer Alphonse Bertillon, who worked in the French police in the XIX century and came ...
29-02-2024
USSR in color: photographs of streets of Leningrad in the ...
Let's see how he saw the hero-city of Leningrad foreign tourists who visited the cultural capital in the 1960s. All pictures of ...
29-02-2024
An amazing story of survival in the taiga, or the forest epic ...
Experienced taiga specialists say that an ordinary person without supplies and equipment can survive in the taiga in the summer for ...
28-02-2024
They look, but they don't see: the faces of soldiers who have ...
In the American military vocabulary there is a term "a look at two thousand yards". This is what they say about the facial ...
28-02-2024
Bullying theory: What Albert Einstein's wives have suffered
Like many other geniuses, Albert Einstein was, let's say, eccentric. And in relationships with women, it's completely unbearable. ...
28-02-2024
Everything you wanted to know about the kilt but were afraid ...
Kilt — traditional dress of the highlanders of Scotland — is the national pride of the country. In ancient times, this wool ...
28-02-2024
Who are the "bobyli" and why were they treated as ...
Today, when we say «bobyl lives », we mean a single man who does not seek to have serious relationships with women and ...
28-02-2024
Generation era: Russian landlords, famous for his cruelty to serf
Serfdom existed in Russia since the XI century until 1861, in fact, only tougher. Of course, in different periods there legal ...
27-02-2024
Lord of the closet and sex fantasies
28 February 1935, American chemist Wallace Hume of Carothers with a group of like-minded people created new synthetic fiber, which ...
26-02-2024
From pseudocode to candy arsenic: the top 5 grocery fakes in ...
Food adulteration were not yesterday. Enterprising manufacturers have learned to benefit from counterfeit products in the XIX ...
26-02-2024
The illusion of invulnerability: how effective was the ...
Medieval knights, clad from head to toe in armor, seem invulnerable. But in reality, tens of kilograms of high-grade steel only ...
26-02-2024
Tireless hunters of the jungle: the Amazonian tribe of waorani
On the planet there are still people, almost untouched by civilization. Tribe of waorani — one of them. The natives living in ...
26-02-2024
The story of the "Lame Lady" — the most unusual ...
The life story of American Virginia Hall will surely become a blockbuster script someday. Military historians consider this lady to ...
26-02-2024
Photo story about how a little Norma Jean from Los Angeles, ...
It is written dozens of books and filmed several documentaries. She shone on the screens until his death, and to this day around ...
26-02-2024
The Last Judgment on earth: how the Pope punished the corpse
The Papacy is one of the oldest institutions in the world. It is not surprising that there have been many dark pages in the history ...
26-02-2024
"He's a fucking genius!": America of the mid-20th century in ...
American photographer Bruce Davidson had the talent to gain the trust of completely different people. He could come to Harlem and ...
26-02-2024
Mel Fisher: why it is called the king of hunters
During the life of the American Mel Fisher called the "king of hunters". In 40 years he abandoned everything and went in search of ...
25-02-2024
"Substandard wife": the most common types of concubines in ...
Many people think that to afford a harem with concubines could only Eastern sultans, however, it is not so... In the history of ...
25-02-2024
9 HISTORICAL MYSTERIES THAT HAVE BEEN ADAPTED TO CINEMA
It’s still early in the 2020s for number ten, so this partial list (incomplete and biased) looks at nine favorite filmed novels ...
25-02-2024
What did the Japanese advertising of cigarettes and alcohol ...
We all know that Japan has the craziest advertising on the planet. But has it always been like this? Let's see what Japanese ...
25-02-2024
50 bucket pictures that will remind you how important it is ...
We used to take many things for granted, including our loved ones. So often we don't appreciate the moments spent with your loved ...