History
21-04-2023
The story of Nikolai Kobelkov, or How a Russian without arms ...
These days, the whole world admires the courage and vitality of speaker and motivator Nick Vujicic, but few people know that the ...
21-04-2023
Scary Hunt: the most famous witches of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages were a very difficult time for women. Any passerby could accuse the girl of witchcraft, and most often empty words ...
21-04-2023
7 vivid images of Cleopatra on our screen
The name of this woman has become synonymous with "eternal" beauty. That is why filmmakers chose actresses with memorable faces to ...
19-04-2023
No eroticism for you! Breeches, grace and other underwear of ...
Modern people, looking at all this, will probably ask themselves one question – how were we born, because in such a horror only ...
19-04-2023
40 nostalgic frames - Yalta in the 90s through the lens of a ...
Martin Parr is a controversial British photojournalist whose world view is ironic and his art style is provocative. In his photo ...
17-04-2023
The Jewish wolfhound David Kurland is a real prototype of the ...
This man was appreciated by colleagues, loved by ordinary people, respected and feared by criminals. David Mikhailovich Kurland was ...
17-04-2023
Hirosimites – amazing artifacts created by a nuclear explosion
The nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a terrible tragedy of all mankind. The consequences of a ...
17-04-2023
Magyar poisoner of Nagyrev
In the early XX century in the Hungarian village Nagyrev formed a sort of killer syndicate consisting exclusively of women. From ...
16-04-2023
Ah, Arbat, my Arbat...
Alexander Nankin aka skif_tag writes: “Each pebble is familiar to me in the town where I was born and raised. And how funny it is ...
15-04-2023
25 facts about the Titanic that might surprise you
Date of 15 April 1912 was the largest Maritime disaster of the twentieth century — in the Atlantic, on the way from Southampton ...
14-04-2023
What did the usual household appliances look like at the dawn ...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first Philips laboratory, which appeared in the Dutch Eindhoven. Incandescent lamps, ...
13-04-2023
It's hard to believe, but these 5 people with anomalies ...
From time to time, nature plays a cruel joke on us and "special" people are born. They are often called freaks, but this does not ...
12-04-2023
"The space is calling everyone! And call. How vechnyy Zov" ...
12 April 1961 booster "R‑7", created at the factory "Progress" in Kuibyshev (now Samara), launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into ...
11-04-2023
Beach fashion of the 20-30s of the XX century
We present to your attention a selection of photos about the beach fashion of the 20-30s of the twentieth century. Beach fashion ...
10-04-2023
What was considered normal to do in ancient Greece, what is ...
Ancient Greece had a rich and complex culture that had a significant impact on modern Western society. However, many practices that ...
09-04-2023
Historical images from different parts of the world that ...
Let's dive into history through photography. In the selection below, you will see the life of people from different countries, ...
08-04-2023
45 photos that will change your view of the past
The celebrities we're used to seeing on screen or in the history books, outside of all the hype around them, are ordinary ...
07-04-2023
The first roles of Hollywood actors: no one knew them, but ...
Hollywood actors began their careers long before their popularity. Often, future stars tried themselves in the cinema in early ...
05-04-2023
To the 45th anniversary of the legendary festival: still ...
Woodstock is not only one of the most famous music festivals of all time, but also one of the defining moments of the 1960s ...
05-04-2023
Representatives of the LGBT community at the beginning of the ...
Once upon a time, a vintage photo album fell into the hands of the French cinematographer Sebastian Lifshitz, in which the life of ...
30-03-2023
Post really rare shots
History porn, truly rare photos of famous people - writers, actors, poets, prototypes of fairy tales. There is something to pay ...
29-03-2023
Reasons for emancipation
Dmitry Chernyshev says: “Before the start of the First World War, no more than 10% of women participated in active work. Since ...
28-03-2023
The shame of Japan: "comfort stations" in the war, where ...
In brothels for Japanese soldiers during the war there were, according to various sources, from 200 to 400 thousand women ...
28-03-2023
Another life
Alexander Savelyev says: “I am sure that women photographers often have the courage that men lack. The courage to shoot without ...
27-03-2023
163 years ago, a railway connection between St. Petersburg ...
On August 28, 1851, the Nikolaev railway (now the Oktyabrskaya railway) was built, which marked the beginning of the construction ...
26-03-2023
"Who put Bella in the elm tree?": a creepy find in the woods ...
"Who put Bella in the elm tree?" - this graffiti began to appear everywhere immediately after several boys found a human skull ...