History
02-07-2022
How did the song "Murka": the real story of Marusya Klimova
«Murka» rightfully is among the most popular Russian songs of the 20th century. She was considered almost an anthem of ...
02-07-2022
As one failed advertising campaign led to the collapse of the ...
Sometimes one wrong move can completely destroy acquired over the years. Prime example — once a successful company Hoover, which ...
02-07-2022
South Korea's bloodiest maniac has been caught, but he will ...
The case of the Hwasong serial killer, over which the best detectives of South Korea have been fighting for 33 years, has finally ...
02-07-2022
Radioactive attraction: in Chernobyl, a control room was ...
Excursions to the exclusion zone are becoming more popular, so even more new objects are being opened for visitors. Now tourists ...
01-07-2022
The Wehrmacht is stoned: drugs in the service of the Third Reich
While the Red Army used the "front-line hundred grams", methamphetamines were used on the other side of the trenches. Under the ...
01-07-2022
Having sex in the Middle Ages was very difficult
Forget about romance, about beautiful ladies in trouble and noble knights in shining armor on a white horse. Because it was very ...
01-07-2022
Why did 21-year-old Russian Jack the Ripper Nikolai Radkevich ...
The first officially registered serial killer in Russia — 21-year-old Nikolai Radkevich shocked the public of the capital with ...
01-07-2022
18 nostalgic shots that the current 18-year-olds are unlikely ...
Those who were born in 1998 are already eighteen years old this year. Imagine that most of these already fully grown people have no ...
01-07-2022
Disappearing Italy in the pictures of the iconic photographer ...
Gianni Berengo Gardin is one of the legendary Italian photographers, for more than half a century he has been capturing beautiful ...
01-07-2022
Love to the grave: the tragic story of an Arab princess who ...
It is only in the fairy tale about Aladdin that an oriental beauty can marry a commoner who has won her heart. In fact, the fate of ...
01-07-2022
Harsh students of the Middle Ages: how was the largest ...
In the student environment, a fight is quite a common phenomenon. What can I do, it's a young thing — they argued, fought and ...
01-07-2022
Maxim Dmitriev: photos of Tsarist Russia
We all know and love the photos of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. Color frames of tsarist Russia are a unique asset. But there is another ...
01-07-2022
Romano Canoni is an Italian photographer who became the "eyes ...
Italian photojournalist Romano Cagnoni has left this world at the age of 82. He was one of the most famous photographers of the XX ...
30-06-2022
10 prejudices related to sex that our ancestors believed in
No matter what they say, but sex occupies a significant place in a person's life. It is not surprising that a whole layer of ...
30-06-2022
The history of porn films: from the origins to the present day
"Adult films" appeared almost simultaneously with the opening of the cinema. To understand the development of the most intimate ...
30-06-2022
11 actresses who brought Cleopatra to life on the big screen
There are a few historical figures who managed to escape the textbooks and become, one way or another, part of popular culture. ...
30-06-2022
5 ways to earn money for children in the USSR
By law, children under 14 were not allowed to work in the USSR. But what would a teenager not go to in order to have their own ...
30-06-2022
Why is a quote from the Koran forged on the helmet of ...
Secrets like to surround not only living beings, but also inanimate objects. The helmet of Alexander Nevsky, which is stored in the ...
29-06-2022
What ended Pushkin's secret affair with the 19-year-old serf ...
Although we used to idealize the personality of A. S. Pushkin, nothing human was alien to the poet. Many are shocked by the history ...
29-06-2022
22 atmospheric summer photos from the good old 20th century
They say that earlier the water was wetter, and the water was greener. Well, the world is more predictable (although this is ...
29-06-2022
From cocaine to worms: the most savage methods of weight loss ...
Years pass and centuries, and the eternal feminine question "How to lose weight?" remains relevant. In the war against overweight ...
29-06-2022
Forget what you were taught in school: facts that have ceased ...
Everything changes over time. And even those facts that you previously considered reinforced concrete may change after some time. ...
29-06-2022
Invulnerable Comandante: 10 most unusual assassination ...
If you believe the biographers of Fidel Castro, then the Cuban leader, for his long and eventful life, was attacked 637 times. It ...
28-06-2022
The view from the depths of millennia: how did ancient man ...
Scientists have restored a man who was killed 8000 years ago when, presumably, the ritual of sacrifice. His head separated from his ...
28-06-2022
The Hajj of Emperor Musa: how the richest man in the history ...
If you ask any person about what advanced civilizations in Africa he knows, then for sure they will tell you about ancient Egypt ...
28-06-2022
The secrets of life and diet of the Templars, which made them ...
In the Late middle Ages, when the life expectancy of ordinary people ranged from 25 to 40 years, the Templars often overcame age ...