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15.03.23
What were punks 30 years ago
15.03.23
Josef Stalin jokes
15.03.23
America 50s in color
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 ...
![Interesting facts about the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"](/img/2023/interesting-facts-about/interesting-facts-about-170x170.jpg "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 ...
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, ...
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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 ...
12-03-2023
"Bananas in the ears": how modern headphones appeared
Today it is difficult to imagine our life without headphones. With their help, we not only distract ourselves from the outside ...
11-03-2023
Happiness has fallen in: a 500-year-old ship with $ 13 ...
Namibian diamond miners stumbled upon the wreckage of a 500-year-old ship in the desert near the coast. The Portuguese ship Bom ...
10-03-2023
Know our people! Cool historical reconstruction in the center ...
From June 9 to 19, the historical and gastronomic festival "Our Product" is taking place in Moscow - perhaps one of the brightest ...
09-03-2023
30 years of Windows: stages of a long journey
In 1998, on June 25, the operating system "Windows 98" was officially released. And over the past thirty years, Windows has managed ...
07-03-2023
The evolution of the bikini: from the object of the Vatican's ...
When Michelle Bernardini starred on July 5, 1946 in such a revealing bathing suit that it could fit into a matchbox in her hand, ...
07-03-2023
What it means to be British: a photo exhibition about the ...
The photo exhibition "Ideal of Life: Photographing Class, Culture and Identity in Modern Britain" (An Ideal for Living: ...
05-03-2023
Retro-postcards showing society's fear of women's empowerment
These incredible vintage postcards from the early 1900s were used by men as propaganda to prevent women from gaining more civil ...
05-03-2023
Color memories of the Second World War in the lens of ...
The 1930s and 1940s were turbulent times for the United States and for the rest of the world. The country did not really recover ...
05-03-2023
5 indecent facts about the Queen of Egypt Cleopatra
Despite the fact that more than 2 thousand years have passed, the image of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra has not faded. She ...