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10 dark secrets of Prohibition in the United States

15-03-2024

10 dark secrets of Prohibition in the United States

In alcohol, people often find solace in difficult times. Prohibition, introduced in the United States in 1920, deprived Americans ...

Stunning photos of a young Kim Basinger from the 1970s

14-03-2024

Stunning photos of a young Kim Basinger from the 1970s

Actress Kim Basinger, proclaimed a sex symbol of the 1980s and 1990s, started her way into show business at the Ford Modeling ...

The kissing ceremony and other ancient rules of Russian etiquette that amazed foreigners

14-03-2024

The kissing ceremony and other ancient rules of Russian ...

The simplest rules of etiquette appeared as soon as people began to live in society. They progressed and changed, sometimes taking ...

The genius of pure beauty: natural appeal of British girls in the beginning of XX century

14-03-2024

The genius of pure beauty: natural appeal of British girls in ...

Beauty lives in the eyes. Unfortunately, now we need to work hard to find the true beauty among the crowd. In the early twentieth ...

The 4 most dangerous and strange experiment with food in the history of mankind

14-03-2024

The 4 most dangerous and strange experiment with food in the ...

It is now for experiments, mainly scientists use lab rats, and the results of most experiments can predict in advance, starting ...

Evolution of seeds in Russia from Peter I to our days

14-03-2024

Evolution of seeds in Russia from Peter I to our days

It's hard to imagine but there were times in Russia when people knew nothing about seeds. After all, once they are simply not ...

The Heart of France: 30 stunning photos of Paris in the 1930s and 1940s

13-03-2024

The Heart of France: 30 stunning photos of Paris in the 1930s ...

The city of love, fashion and freedom could not leave photographers indifferent. Among them stands out Roger Schall-a French master ...

10 Interesting Photographs From The Past That Might Help You Learn Something New

13-03-2024

10 Interesting Photographs From The Past That Might Help You ...

Old pictures combine two elements that curious minds like – history and photography. But have you ever wondered why you like ...

An amazing find in the attic: a suitcase with personal belongings of a soldier of the First World War

13-03-2024

An amazing find in the attic: a suitcase with personal ...

A suitcase containing the belongings of a World War I soldier has been found in the UK. The mother of Private Ted Ambrose, who was ...

50 cups of coffee a day, unwillingness to wash and other strange habits of 20 geniuses

13-03-2024

50 cups of coffee a day, unwillingness to wash and other ...

From afar, the stars shine brightly and beautifully, but you should not approach them. The same can be said about many famous ...

Why Confucius advised not to tell anything about yourself

13-03-2024

Why Confucius advised not to tell anything about yourself

We are all familiar with the phrase from Hollywood movies: “Everything said will be used against you.” We perceive this as a ...

I'll be damned! This is the only surviving pirate graveyard

12-03-2024

I'll be damned! This is the only surviving pirate graveyard

If you ever get the idea of watching whales come to the surface, there is no better place than the island of Nusi Buraha off the ...

Obscene fashion of a century ago - stockings rolled up under the knee

12-03-2024

Obscene fashion of a century ago - stockings rolled up under ...

Stockings rolled below the knees - the rebellious fashion of the 1920s! Girls longed for freedom, not wanting to wear uncomfortable ...

Women who changed history

12-03-2024

Women who changed history

There are women who are truly worthy of respect and admiration. They change the story, go for broke, not afraid of change, nor the ...

Attitude towards the female nudity in society: a view through the centuries

12-03-2024

Attitude towards the female nudity in society: a view through ...

To female nudity in different attitudes not only different people, but in different times. Moreover, to trace the changes in the ...

The era of human zoos

11-03-2024

The era of human zoos

Since ancient times, sanctioned the slave trade was engaged in by people of different nationalities and religions. Most of the ...

Hindu Dashrath Manjhi - the man who conquered the mountain

11-03-2024

Hindu Dashrath Manjhi - the man who conquered the mountain

The saying goes that “patience and hard work will wear out everything.” This is actually what happens, as proven by a resident ...

3 emperors of ancient Rome, who amazed contemporaries and descendants with debauchery

11-03-2024

3 emperors of ancient Rome, who amazed contemporaries and ...

No one will argue with the fact that the Romans loved sex. Everyone is well aware of the frivolous mosaics of the lost Pompeii, ...

What did Canadian prostitutes of the 1940s look like

11-03-2024

What did Canadian prostitutes of the 1940s look like

In the first half of the XX century, the Canadian city of Montreal was known as the capital of sex tourism in North America. ...

8 shocking stories about people who almost all his life spent alone

11-03-2024

8 shocking stories about people who almost all his life spent ...

In connection with the quarantine and the necessity most of the time to spend at home many people feel lonely. But in fact, the ...

How to fight the "Night witches" or "Dunkin regiment", the only female regiment in the Second world

11-03-2024

How to fight the "Night witches" or "Dunkin regiment", the ...

"The Germans called us the "night witches" and witches was only from 15 to 27 years." Echoes of the Second world are filled with ...

Pagan Maslenitsa-Comoedia: how to celebrate the equinox by our ancestors

11-03-2024

Pagan Maslenitsa-Comoedia: how to celebrate the equinox by ...

Worldwide Christian Church acted on the same principle — if a pagan holiday it is impossible to eradicate, then you need to ...

The story of the legendary virgin-warrior, Mulan: beautiful truth or fiction?

10-03-2024

The story of the legendary virgin-warrior, Mulan: beautiful ...

The story of the Chinese girl-warrior Mulan is extremely popular in contemporary art. About the heroine made the animated film ...

9 historical figures, the existence of which scientists call into serious doubt

10-03-2024

9 historical figures, the existence of which scientists call ...

These nine names we hear from school, about these people written many literary works, removed a huge amount of movies. So we ...

"Operation Finale": how the Jews had kidnapped Adolf Eichmann, the most wanted Nazi

10-03-2024

"Operation Finale": how the Jews had kidnapped Adolf ...

In the last days of the war, many Nazi criminals looking for ways to escape, rightly fearing for their lives. Many of them were ...

Drugs, Hellish hairstyles and Communism: The Nightlife of 80's Belgrade

10-03-2024

Drugs, Hellish hairstyles and Communism: The Nightlife of ...

It is not surprising that the 1980s are remembered with special nostalgia by Serbs, because less than a decade later, Yugoslavia ...