History
08.07.22
The most beautiful places in Germany
26-06-2022
The right to choose: how abortion was treated in the USSR and ...
Mass protests are taking place in the USA against the background of the abolition of the right to abortion — there are clashes ...
26-06-2022
Peter the Great did these things with his own hands
The first Russian emperor was a man of many professions. Miraculously, some of the things he created have survived and are still ...
25-06-2022
The Walking Dead: a traditional parade in honor of the Day of ...
Although Halloween used to have a sacred meaning, now it has turned into a cheerful holiday of chaos and pranks. In Mexico, they do ...
25-06-2022
Amazingly crazy inventions of the XX century
If Uncle Fyodor had been an engineer, he would have said this: "In order to invent something necessary, you must first come up with ...
25-06-2022
Old photos you rarely see
We study the past in order to understand the present. And photos can help us a lot. However, even though textbooks and other ...
23-06-2022
Why the victory parade of 1945 to the mausoleum threw the ...
The culmination of the first Victory Parade June 24, 1945 was the moment when the Nazi banners were thrown to the foot of the Lenin ...
23-06-2022
What did the first stations of the Moscow metro look like in ...
The first line of the Kaganovich Moscow Metro opened on May 15, 1935. Trains ran from the Sokolniki station to the Park of Culture, ...
22-06-2022
Light up! Guy Fawkes Night in the UK was bright and hot
Guy Fawkes Night (or Bonfire Night) has long turned into a loud colorful holiday dedicated to the disclosure of the so-called ...
19-06-2022
The art of dance through the eyes of Russian artists
Russian artists considered dance to be one of the best ways to depict the colors and diversity of folk culture.
17-06-2022
The wolves of Wall Street have scented prey: Yale University ...
The Dutch bond of 1648, housed in the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University, differs from the tens of ...
17-06-2022
The main culprit of the death of the Titanic was not an iceberg
More than a century has passed since a huge liner, making a flight from Southampton to New York, sank in the waters of the North ...
17-06-2022
An archive of photographs of an unknown genius Masha ...
Masha Ivashintsova was a lost photographer of Leningrad. Throughout her life, from 1942 to 2000, she took pictures, but never ...
16-06-2022
The most expensive artists in the world
Every year, the Artprice portal publishes a list of the most expensive artists in the world, whose works are sold at auctions for ...
16-06-2022
What was the first Victoria's Secret show like?
As we have already written, Victoria’s Secret confirmed rumors that the famous show will be canceled for the first time in 25 ...
15-06-2022
The first woman in space: unknown facts about the flight of ...
Exactly 58 years ago, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, went into space. We want to remember her remarkable space expedition. ...
15-06-2022
The best works from the contest Historic Photographer of the ...
The organizers of the Historic Photographer of the Year 2019 competition summed up the results. The jury considered the works of ...
13-06-2022
Facts about the history of rock and roll that most people ...
The rock and roll genre has a colorful history rooted in the American experience. But what is the origin of rock music?
12-06-2022
Our beautiful ancestors
Looking at portraits from the distant past, we tend to believe that our ancestors were hardly beautiful, which is why the ...
12-06-2022
Picnic on the pyramids: tourists in Giza during the British ...
In 2013, the audacious trick of the rufers Vitaly Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov, who climbed the Egyptian pyramids, caused a ...
11-06-2022
"Go and fight": how the fate of the children of Stalin, ...
To be born into the family of a famous person is both a great success and a cross that you have to bear. Each offspring, of course, ...
11-06-2022
A fairy tale based on real events: what is true in the film ...
Leonid Gaidai's painting "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" is rich in historical mistakes, which, of course, is excusable ...
10-06-2022
Pigeons in uniform: what role did birds play in the First ...
There are things in this world that scientists seem to be able to explain, but they are unclear to us, ordinary people. For ...
09-06-2022
How the royal family of Great Britain has been wishing Merry ...
The Royal Family of Great Britain issues postcards with its image every year. Let's see how the members of the royal family have ...
08-06-2022
10 strange historical photos that require an explanation
It can be difficult to imagine what life was like for several dozen (or even hundreds) years ago, and sometimes it seems strange to ...
07-06-2022
There is still gunpowder in the flasks! Five "veterans" of ...
The most popular men's magazine made an exclusive issue of Equality Issue, which included a photo shoot "Once a Playmate — ...
06-06-2022
Cult Magazine covers: Then and now
National Geographic, Esquire, Glamour — names known to everyone. These publications have managed to gain worldwide popularity and ...