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20 unique photos with greetings from the past

15-03-2023

20 unique photos with greetings from the past

Photographs are a time machine that can take you back several years or even centuries. And the older they get, the more valuable ...

Previously unseen photos of Bob Dylan and his friends

15-03-2023

Previously unseen photos of Bob Dylan and his friends

One day in the summer of 1975, at 3:00 a.m., photographer Ken Regan's phone rang. At such a late hour, music producer Barry ...

The richest medieval treasure discovered in Holland

15-03-2023

The richest medieval treasure discovered in Holland

An exhibition is opening at the Museum of Antiquities of the Netherlands, which will present the rarest treasure for this country ...

Mansa Musa is the richest man in history

15-03-2023

Mansa Musa is the richest man in history

African supreme ruler Musa Keita I is considered the richest man of all times and peoples - richer than you can imagine. In the XIV ...

Josef Stalin jokes

15-03-2023

Josef Stalin jokes

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Joseph Stalin was a very witty man. Typical situations were described in his memoirs by ...

Endless poverty on the streets of London in 1873-1877

15-03-2023

Endless poverty on the streets of London in 1873-1877

Between 1873 and 1877, Scottish photographer John Thomson, along with journalist Adolph Smith, documented the lives of London's ...

America 50s in color

15-03-2023

America 50s in color

Blogger samsebeskazal says: “Photos from the times when the sky was bluer, the sun brighter, and life was much simpler and freer. ...

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

14-03-2023

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

Of course, you know that the surname Stalin is a pseudonym. Joseph Dzhugashvili was born in 1878 in Georgia, which was then part of ...

Beer love post: how real Guinness was brewed

14-03-2023

Beer love post: how real Guinness was brewed

In 1759 Irish brewer Arthur Guinness signed a lease on an abandoned brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin. The annual rent was ...

“Elizabeth, we loved everything!”

14-03-2023

“Elizabeth, we loved everything!”

Among the pieces of peeling paint and fragments of broken mirrors, everything breathes history, surrounded by dead silence. Urban ...

What Jerusalem looked like in the last days of Turkish rule

14-03-2023

What Jerusalem looked like in the last days of Turkish rule

Over the thousand-year history of Jerusalem, its rulers and their subjects have changed countless times - ancient pagans, biblical ...

Portraits of Victorian Geniuses by Julia Margaret Cameron

14-03-2023

Portraits of Victorian Geniuses by Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron was born in Calcutta in 1815, spent her childhood and youth there, married, and then moved to London. At the ...

What the world's most famous landmarks looked like in the beginning

14-03-2023

What the world's most famous landmarks looked like in the ...

Retronaut creator and curator Wolfgang Wilde has released a book that will change the way we think about the past. The book ...

Marble stadium of the first Olympic Games

14-03-2023

Marble stadium of the first Olympic Games

On April 6, 1896, the first modern Summer Olympic Games began in Athens. These Games were quite different from those we are used to ...

Rock and roll on the other side of the lens

14-03-2023

Rock and roll on the other side of the lens

Photographers Pattie Boyd, Henry Diltz, Joel Bernstein and Graham Nash, who is also known for the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & ...

Memoirs of a Courtesan

14-03-2023

Memoirs of a Courtesan

Born in 1876 in the Netherlands, Margareta Gertrud Zelle married a captain in the Dutch army at the age of 18. In 1897, together ...

Luxury flight in the seventies on a Boeing 747

14-03-2023

Luxury flight in the seventies on a Boeing 747

Air travel has experienced its golden age. Once upon a time, airplanes had much more space, stylish interiors, and brighter ...

How to choose the most desirable girls in the Universe

14-03-2023

How to choose the most desirable girls in the Universe

The Miss Universe contest is already 63 years old, and it is able to tell a lot about how ideas about female beauty have changed ...

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

13-03-2023

26 Freaky Historical Facts from the Nichosi!

There is a misconception that life used to be safer and calmer. Of course, this is just a delusion. Each historical period boasts a ...

Interesting facts about the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"

12-03-2023

Interesting facts about the film "The Dawns Here Are ...

Many talented writers were worried about the topic of the Great Patriotic War for more than a dozen years after the end of the ...

Unforgettable moments from the history of the Cannes Film Festival

12-03-2023

Unforgettable moments from the history of the Cannes Film ...

On May 11, the famous Cannes Film Festival kicked off in Cannes, which will last until May 22. The Cannes Palm Branch is still ...

How the first stage of the Moscow Metro was built

12-03-2023

How the first stage of the Moscow Metro was built

On May 15, 1935, the first line of the Moscow Metro was opened, which ran from Sokolniki station to Park Kultury station, with a ...

Amy Winehouse to world fame and drugs

12-03-2023

Amy Winehouse to world fame and drugs

“I met Amy when I took a photo for the cover of her debut album,” recalls photographer Charles Moriarty. It was 2003, ...

What did the first Russian tank "Vezdekhod" look like?

12-03-2023

What did the first Russian tank "Vezdekhod" look like?

One hundred and one years ago, on May 18, 1915, an all-terrain vehicle developed by designer Alexander Porokhovshchikov was tested. ...

From Stalin to Putin: our compatriots on the cover of Time

12-03-2023

From Stalin to Putin: our compatriots on the cover of Time

Time magazine has been published since 1923. Created by Yale alumni Henry Luce and Brighton Hadden, it became the world's first ...

How did the post-war "Bugs"

12-03-2023

How did the post-war "Bugs"

In 1934, Adolf Hitler conceived the idea of providing every German family with a motorized vehicle and hired car designer Ferdinand ...