History
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 & ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...