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"Adolf Hitler is still alive": a sensational document from the CIA archive has been declassified

22-12-2022

"Adolf Hitler is still alive": a sensational document from ...

According to the official version, on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler shot himself, after which his body was put on fire. Soviet ...

You can see through the story: the first patients on the X-ray

21-12-2022

You can see through the story: the first patients on the X-ray

November 8, 1895 is considered the day of the discovery of X-rays by professor and physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. However, few people ...

Examples of the most unusual taxis: 10 photos

18-12-2022

Examples of the most unusual taxis: 10 photos

In many countries and cities, a taxi is not just a yellow car with checkers, but a whole culture. It is these unusual examples of ...

A buxom sex bomb for president! The PR stunt that conquered America

14-12-2022

A buxom sex bomb for president! The PR stunt that conquered ...

In 1964, actress Jane Mansfield, a dazzling platinum blonde with a juicy bust, put forward her brilliant candidacy for the ...

Rare photos of the last years of Frida Kahlo's life

14-12-2022

Rare photos of the last years of Frida Kahlo's life

In 1950, photographer Gisele Freund came to Mexico — she thought she would spend two weeks there. Giselle left the country two ...

The evolution of underwear: from the 1900s to the present day

14-12-2022

The evolution of underwear: from the 1900s to the present day

Since the 1900s, such an intimate part of the women's wardrobe as underwear has undergone quite a few revolutionary changes. How ...

Doctors found cancer in Egyptian mummy 2,000 years after death

13-12-2022

Doctors found cancer in Egyptian mummy 2,000 years after death

Hoping to find out what caused the death of a resident of ancient Egypt two thousand years ago, doctors at Kraus Hospital performed ...

How the prostitutes of New Orleans lived 100 years ago

10-12-2022

How the prostitutes of New Orleans lived 100 years ago

From luxurious palaces to crumbling huts, these 1912 black—and-white photographs show how New Orleans prostitutes lived a hundred ...

We need more kings! How many children in royal families were then and are now

10-12-2022

We need more kings! How many children in royal families were ...

Recently, the House of Windsor announced the next pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, the mother of a potential heir to the ...

Cars with beautiful female names

09-12-2022

Cars with beautiful female names

Giving cars female names is a romantic trend for many automakers. Such names sound melodious and it is impossible to pronounce them ...

The ship, known as "Stalin's yacht", can be sold for 20 million rubles

08-12-2022

The ship, known as "Stalin's yacht", can be sold for 20 ...

The Moscow River Shipping Company (MRP) has found a buyer for the Maxim Gorky motor ship, known as Stalin's Yacht. Now the ship, ...

Top 15 Greatest Football Players of All Time

08-12-2022

Top 15 Greatest Football Players of All Time

Lionel Messi, Argentina. This football player is one of the best football players of our time! He has won the UEFA Champions League ...

Scientists have recreated the face of a young Greek woman who lived 9 thousand years ago

06-12-2022

Scientists have recreated the face of a young Greek woman who ...

The skull of this girl was found in the Theopetra cave in Greece. According to the assessment of the condition of the teeth, she ...

Harsh Romania of the 90s, where flocks of sheep blocked busy streets

05-12-2022

Harsh Romania of the 90s, where flocks of sheep blocked busy ...

Like the governments of all socialist countries, the Romanian Communists really wanted to surpass Western countries in terms of ...

How Syria sheltered refugees from Europe during World War II

05-12-2022

How Syria sheltered refugees from Europe during World War II

It's amazing how quickly people forget history. The current situation with Middle Eastern refugees in Europe is not the first and, ...

Crucifixion for schizophrenia and heroin for cough are the strangest treatments

05-12-2022

Crucifixion for schizophrenia and heroin for cough are the ...

Do you remember how the media was in a fever when the Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2015? Scientists and authorities ...

Insanely expensive and extremely rare 1984 off-road Porsche 911

04-12-2022

Insanely expensive and extremely rare 1984 off-road Porsche 911

Of course, the machine that will be discussed in this post has never been mass-produced. The chance to meet such a car on the ...

Sergeant Stubby — heroic dog of the First World War

04-12-2022

Sergeant Stubby — heroic dog of the First World War

The name of the brave fellow in the photo is Sergeant Stubby. This sturdy guy is not just a dog, but a military man who has earned ...

Thomas Edison's 15 Inventions that Changed the World

03-12-2022

Thomas Edison's 15 Inventions that Changed the World

On February 11, 1847, Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, an incredibly successful inventor, scientist and businessman who ...

Kids in a cage: 154 years of the Moscow Zoo

03-12-2022

Kids in a cage: 154 years of the Moscow Zoo

On February 12, 1864, the Imperial Russian Society for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants founded a zoo in Moscow. The ...

Scientists have recreated the face of Queen Nefertiti, and it does not look very similar to the famous bust

03-12-2022

Scientists have recreated the face of Queen Nefertiti, and it ...

Scientists at the University of Bristol in the UK using a 3D scanner reconstructed the face of Queen Nefertiti, who ruled Ancient ...

Fabulous outfits of Norwegian brides of the 1870s-1920s

01-12-2022

Fabulous outfits of Norwegian brides of the 1870s-1920s

Winter-licht blogger says: "The photos from the Norsk Folkemuseum collection taken in the period of the 1870s-1920s show girls in ...

Russia of the 1910s: 30 photos from a Russian writer look as if they were taken yesterday

01-12-2022

Russia of the 1910s: 30 photos from a Russian writer look as ...

Leonid Andreev, one of the last representatives of the Silver Age of Russian literature in pre-revolutionary Russia, was born 146 ...

The coach with the help of Photoshop clearly showed how the ideal figure looked in different years

30-11-2022

The coach with the help of Photoshop clearly showed how the ...

American fitness trainer Cassie Ho decided to prove to her subscribers that the ideal female figure does not exist. To do this, she ...

A long time ago in Tehran

30-11-2022

A long time ago in Tehran

We present photos of Iran taken at a time when skirts were short, dancing was energetic, and the United States was not enemy number ...

The life and death of Anna Geldi, the last witch from Switzerland

29-11-2022

The life and death of Anna Geldi, the last witch from Switzerland

The witch hunt claimed the lives of thousands of women — young and old — between the XIV and XVIII centuries. Mass hysteria ...