History
21-03-2024
Dr. Nicholas Senn is a surgeon who inflated his patients with ...
Medical ethics forbids inflating patients, unless we are talking about the direct meaning of this word. American surgeon Nicholas ...
21-03-2024
The London "gin Epidemic", or As drunkenness nearly destroyed ...
England was repeatedly devastated by the epidemic, therefore, plague, cholera and smallpox until the late 19th century was ...
21-03-2024
The life and death of Anna Geldi, the last witch from Switzerland
Witch hunts claimed the lives of thousands of women-young and old-between the 14th and 18th centuries. Mass hysteria over ...
21-03-2024
25 frames of Henri Cartier-Bresson about Soviet life in 1954
On January 17, 1955, Life magazine published Henri Cartier-Bresson's photo essay "The People of Russia". The famous Frenchman ...
21-03-2024
15 realistic portraits of famous people, created with the ...
Freelance photographer Bass Uterwijk used a GAN (generative-adversarial network) to create a set of realistic portraits of famous ...
21-03-2024
Bessemer steamship: why a project that could save you from ...
Seasickness, motion sickness, or scientifically kinesia, is a condition familiar to many. Millions of people face it every day. ...
20-03-2024
10 facts about the Eiffel tower
On March 31, 1889, 132 years ago in Paris, a solemn opening of the Eiffel tower. On this day the engineer Gustave Eiffel hoisted on ...
20-03-2024
Vintage portraits of tattooed women
Tattoos. For someone - art, for someone — stupidity. In any case, tattoos have appeared for a long time and are firmly entrenched ...
20-03-2024
Escape from the "Alcatraz": the story of three inmates who ...
March 21, 1963 was closed to the famous American prison for dangerous criminals Alcatraz, also known as "the Rock". Located on the ...
20-03-2024
What does the word "abracadabra" mean and why do we use it ...
The funny word "abracadabra" is familiar to everyone. We use it in conversation with friends, when communicating with colleagues at ...
20-03-2024
As in Nazi Germany invented the first sex doll — Aryan of ...
The Nazi occupation of France in 1940 led to multiple sex German soldier with Parisian prostitutes, and as a result, by the ...
20-03-2024
Do not take skinny wives and other rules of family life in Russia
Creating a family is a responsible activity. If today we live in a civilized world and adhere to certain rules of morality, then in ...
20-03-2024
10 interesting finds made inside the statues
Sculptures created by real masters are, if not artistic, then certainly of historical value. Despite this, scientists sometimes ...
20-03-2024
The werewolf girl, or how a 13-year-old boy turned out to be ...
In the Czech Republic, Barbora was nicknamed "the werewolf girl" by Barbora Skrlova. This is because, by some miracle, ...
20-03-2024
10 creepiest ways to hide your face
Ever since man invented clothes, he has constantly tried to cover his face as well. The reasons for this were different each time - ...
20-03-2024
How in Russia there was a custom to kiss on the lips
Most scientists believe that people borrowed kisses on the lips from birds. The process of feeding the parents of the chicks from ...
20-03-2024
The story of Black Krzysztof - a knight by birth and a robber ...
Adventure novels that describe the Middle Ages often tell the stories of knights and robbers. They are the embodiment of good and ...
19-03-2024
What role did pigeons play in the First World War and what ...
There are some things in this world that scientists seem to be able to explain, but they are unclear to us, ordinary people. For ...
19-03-2024
“There were people in our time”: retrophotos of parents ...
A lot of people are now obsessed with vintage, from clothes to music. And anyway, who wouldn't want to live in the 60s? ...
19-03-2024
The long death of the drunkard Michael Malloy, who became an ...
This is the story of an Irish homeless man named Michael Malloy, whose death was included in a number of lists of "amazing and ...
19-03-2024
"Cuckoo" — a cruel game of Russian officers, the defeat in ...
The true pride of Russia has always been its army, which gained immortal glory on the fields of victory with its true courage and ...
19-03-2024
One day in the life of an Englishwoman in 1941
The phrase "Keep calm and carry on", which has become a symbol of Britain, translates as "Keep calm and continue in the same ...
18-03-2024
How coffee was used before it became a drink. You will be ...
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks on the planet. Many people cannot imagine starting the day without a cup of aromatic ...
18-03-2024
An incredible discovery by archaeologists: a girl from the ...
A teenage girl of 14-15 years old, who was sacrificed about 500 years ago, all the past centuries lay in the ice on the top of the ...
17-03-2024
Who are the urine collectors and why in the old days the ...
Starting from the dark Middle Ages and ending with the enlightened 18th century, in the cities of Europe, you could meet people who ...
17-03-2024
9 very strange methods that our ancestors used to diagnose ...
Today, it is not difficult to determine whether a woman is pregnant or not. It is enough to go to the pharmacy, buy a test strip ...