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The unsinkable Violet Jessop, who survived three of the largest shipwrecks of the XX century

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 ...

The amazing story of Phineas Gage - the man with the crowbar in his skull

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 ...

The most dangerous a study by British scientists: "operation Vegetarian"

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 ...

Why in Russia girls sometimes drowned themselves after their wedding night

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 ...

The latest suicide bomber in Britain: what were executed the former model and mother of two Ruth Ellis

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 ...

First-of-its-kind crime scene photos from 1904

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 ...

USSR in color: photographs of streets of Leningrad in the 1960s of the year

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 ...

An amazing story of survival in the taiga, or the forest epic of student Natalia Kosorukova

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 ...

They look, but they don't see: the faces of soldiers who have gone through hell

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 ...

Bullying theory: What Albert Einstein's wives have suffered

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. ...

Everything you wanted to know about the kilt but were afraid to ask

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 ...

Who are the "bobyli" and why were they treated as second-class people in Russia

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 ...

Generation era: Russian landlords, famous for his cruelty to serf

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 ...

Lord of the closet and sex fantasies

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 ...

From pseudocode to candy arsenic: the top 5 grocery fakes in tsarist Russia

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 ...

The illusion of invulnerability: how effective was the knight's armor

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 ...

Tireless hunters of the jungle: the Amazonian tribe of waorani

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 ...

The story of the "Lame Lady" — the most unusual intelligence officer of the Second World War

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 ...

Photo story about how a little Norma Jean from Los Angeles, has become the most seductive woman of the twentieth century

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 ...

The Last Judgment on earth: how the Pope punished the corpse

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 ...

"He's a fucking genius!": America of the mid-20th century in the lens of the iconic Bruce Davidson

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 ...

Mel Fisher: why it is called the king of hunters

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 ...

"Substandard wife": the most common types of concubines in history

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 ...

9 HISTORICAL MYSTERIES THAT HAVE BEEN ADAPTED TO CINEMA

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 ...

What did the Japanese advertising of cigarettes and alcohol look like in 1894-1954

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 ...

50 bucket pictures that will remind you how important it is to love your loved ones

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 ...