Nations

Muscovites: do they exist and where to find them?

09-06-2023

Muscovites: do they exist and where to find them?

Historians have studied archive documents for several centuries, I believe that in modern Moscow there are not more than 10% of ...

"Meanwhile in ...": 20 photos with features of different countries

09-06-2023

"Meanwhile in ...": 20 photos with features of ...

Photos taken in the style of "meanwhile in ..." are well known to everyone. Usually they play up funny, often absurd ...

Not huge one: 4 wrong national ideas that will be our man

08-06-2023

Not huge one: 4 wrong national ideas that will be our man

They say that the Russian well, the German death. It's possible that it works and Vice versa, but there are concepts that are ...

Swingers of the Far North: why Chukchi change wives

08-06-2023

Swingers of the Far North: why Chukchi change wives

Every nation living far from civilization has traditions and customs that seem at least strange to uninitiated people. Now, in the ...

Tibetans in the lens of Phil Borges

07-06-2023

Tibetans in the lens of Phil Borges

American photographer Phil Borges travels around the world and takes pictures of representatives of various small peoples with whom ...

Five genders and two souls: the solution of the sexual question among the Indians

05-06-2023

Five genders and two souls: the solution of the sexual ...

When Europeans encountered the indigenous population of the American continent, they were confused. The people they met were not ...

Chinese land where women still rule

04-06-2023

Chinese land where women still rule

Near the Tibetan border on the shores of Lake Luguhu in the Himalayas, a small Moso people live. The culture and way of life of the ...

These mysterious wild tribes

04-06-2023

These mysterious wild tribes

Mysterious rituals, secret societies, cannibalism and black mystique envelop the primitive world of the wild tribes. To our days ...

The story of a genocide: the Australian aborigines were considered animals up to 1970-ies

03-06-2023

The story of a genocide: the Australian aborigines were ...

U.S. 70-ies of the last century, racial segregation have almost ceased to remind myself. Dark-skinned artists, actors and ...

Traditional clothes Mongols: sudden wealth

02-06-2023

Traditional clothes Mongols: sudden wealth

The life of Mongolian nomads heavy and scarce. More surprising is to see their traditional national costumes — intricate, ...

Will disappear in the next 100 years: a photographer showed the tribes on the verge of extinction

01-06-2023

Will disappear in the next 100 years: a photographer showed ...

Polish photographer and traveler Adam Goat presented an ambitious project about the residents ischezaushei tribes. Traveling the ...

Gypsies the great Empire: how to survive the last nomads of Europe

01-06-2023

Gypsies the great Empire: how to survive the last nomads of ...

Statistics say that only in Slovakia, is home to 400 thousand people of the Roma nationality. If this is the official figure, you ...

Why do Bedouins have a reputation for sluts, and is it deserved

29-05-2023

Why do Bedouins have a reputation for sluts, and is it deserved

Once upon a time, hygiene was not treated as scrupulously as it is now. However, this does not apply to all ethnic groups, but only ...

10 shocking sexual traditions of tribes and peoples of the world

28-05-2023

10 shocking sexual traditions of tribes and peoples of the world

All people on the planet learn what sex is with age, but not all people have the same ideas about it. Some tribes or even entire ...

Hottentots are the most mysterious people of the Black Continent

27-05-2023

Hottentots are the most mysterious people of the Black Continent

African Hottentots are considered the most mysterious inhabitants of Africa. They once inhabited large areas south of the equator. ...

30 pictures of people, which nature generously endowed with unearthly beauty

26-05-2023

30 pictures of people, which nature generously endowed with ...

Recent discoveries of geneticists confirm that the same people do not exist. Despite the uniqueness of each inhabit our planet, ...

23 shocking photos about how many people there are in China

23-05-2023

23 shocking photos about how many people there are in China

China's population was approaching one billion people when the government introduced the "one family, one child" policy. This was ...

Girls are forced to "sell" themselves, and it's legal - life in a Bangladesh brothel

23-05-2023

Girls are forced to "sell" themselves, and it's legal - life ...

In some countries, the standard of living of the ordinary population is so low that young women have little choice but to "sell" ...

Who are the Falashes, or was A. S. Pushkin a Jew

22-05-2023

Who are the Falashes, or was A. S. Pushkin a Jew

Everyone knows that the ancestors of the great Russian poet A. S. Pushkin were Araps — this is how in the old days in Russia ...

The Aztec "death whistle" is a terrible invention of a vanished civilization

19-05-2023

The Aztec "death whistle" is a terrible invention of a ...

It is hardly worth explaining what a whistle is — we have all been familiar with this simple "musical" instrument since ...

What does it feel like to be a samurai's wife? Family traditions of medieval Japan in the XXI century

16-05-2023

What does it feel like to be a samurai's wife? Family ...

Japan is a country of centuries-old traditions. Despite the colossal scientific and technological leap, this country is in no hurry ...

"Let's go to cut down the Germans": how collaborators from the Russian Liberation Army liberated Prague in 1945

15-05-2023

"Let's go to cut down the Germans": how collaborators from ...

The northern and eastern parts of the Czech Republic were liberated by the Red Army, and the west – by the US troops. But for ...

Romanian gypsies

14-05-2023

Romanian gypsies

About 150,000 people live in the city of Baia Mare in northwestern Romania. It is located near the border with Hungary and Ukraine. ...

Young Afrikaner

14-05-2023

Young Afrikaner

Afrikaner, or Afrikaner, is the self-name of the inhabitants of South Africa of Dutch origin. In his Young Afrikaner project, ...

Surreal photos from the life of modern Oglala Lakota Indians

14-05-2023

Surreal photos from the life of modern Oglala Lakota Indians

Photojournalist Aaron Huey has been photographing the Oglala Lakota Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for seven ...

Retro photo: From the life of Lilliputians

14-05-2023

Retro photo: From the life of Lilliputians

Little people were part of show business back in the Middle Ages, when show business itself did not really exist. And in the first ...