History

14-04-2025
34 photos that show how the world has changed over the last ...
Over the centuries, humanity finds ways to develop faster and faster, so it is not surprising that just over a hundred years, the ...

14-04-2025
Fossil stool researchers: who are they and why our future is ...
Sitting down in the eagle pose to empty his intestines, the ancient man could not even imagine that in thousands of years his pile ...

14-04-2025
Myths that we were told in history lessons, and we believe in ...
Due to the effect of the illusion of truth (the tendency to believe that information is true when it is repeated many times), we ...

14-04-2025
"Retrophizra»: how physical education classes were held in ...
Many of us remember our Soviet physical education lessons — rope, horse, skiing... that's all. And how the world followed the ...

14-04-2025
Not bayan, but DiCaprio's Russian grandmother: photos of ...
The number of materials with the title "Photos of celebrities that you haven't seen yet" is estimated in dozens (seriously, they ...

14-04-2025
What the business class of a Swiss airline looked like in the 60s
The Swiss airline Swissair has published a photo from its archives of the 60s. Passengers in those days flew like kings: enjoying ...

13-04-2025
What Jerusalem looked like in the last days of Turkish rule
The ancient city of Jerusalem is rich in history and spiritual culture, shrouded in many secrets, mysteries and legends. And this ...

13-04-2025
Robin Hood — the real story of the guy from Sherwood Forest
A brave archer from Sherwood Forest named Robin Hood became an integral symbol of the English Middle Ages. Together with King ...

13-04-2025
How did the custom of clinking glasses appear
A lot of interesting traditions are connected with the intake of alcohol in Russia. What are only the famous 10 stacks "on the ...

13-04-2025
What is good for a Russian... Sketches of foreigners who ...
Among the historical sources from which scientists draw knowledge about Russia of the past centuries, there are notes of foreigners ...

13-04-2025
Kashmiri Giants: what did the maharaja's huge guards look like
In 1903, a darbar was held in Delhi, India, an event in honor of the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. A ...

13-04-2025
Debunking 5 popular myths about the conquistadors and the ...
In the 16th century, the Spaniards began to send one expedition after another across the ocean and "settle down" North and South ...

12-04-2025
"Little Bastard" James Dean's Death Car
Over a century and a half of its existence, the automotive industry has created many legendary cars. Some, such as the Rolls-Royce, ...

12-04-2025
Explanation of the history of "treason", one of the most ...
Artist Yet master of different genres — historical painting, portraits, mythological subjects, — where a celebration of ...

12-04-2025
22 archival photos that will not leave you indifferent
Impressive and captivating, these archival photographs will reveal the world of the past - a time full of history and drama, ...

11-04-2025
"The space is calling everyone! And call. How vechnyy Zov" ...
12 April 1961 booster "R‑7", created at the factory "Progress" in Kuibyshev (now Samara), launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into ...

11-04-2025
The world's oldest serial killer: how a 90-year-old "Bataan ...
The phrase "the oldest serial killer in history" evokes associations with the scruffy cannibal grandfather from Lovecraft's short ...

11-04-2025
Prostitutes of Japan of the XIX century
In the Land of the Rising Sun, since ancient times, there have been many professional courtesans-geisha, and prostitutes-oiran, ...

11-04-2025
20 photos of celebrities of the twentieth century on motorcycles
Motorcycles have long been a kind of symbol of freedom and risky adventures, so it is not surprising that many famous creative ...

10-04-2025
10 films inspired by works of art
When it comes to movies, everyone has a couple of favorite movies. Someone likes the work of a certain director, and someone loves ...

10-04-2025
Obscene traditions of antiquity that can confuse even a ...
For some reason, we believe that before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, sex was considered something obscene and those who were ...

10-04-2025
Detective in ancient Roman style, or How Emperor Tiberius ...
In ancient Rome there was no such thing as an investigator or detective. Any crime was investigated in court and, as a rule, the ...

10-04-2025
Why in Russia the meeting with the funeral was a good sign
Today, having met the funeral, few people feel positive emotions. Many even believe that this event can cause trouble and therefore ...

10-04-2025
Late love of Marshal Tolbukhin and... Faina Ranevskaya
And it all started as the old joke. Remember: the restaurant falls out drunk, and he saw a man in a Golden cap, and trousers with ...

09-04-2025
Daring and dangerous: 20 vintage photo Japanese girls SUKEBAN
It is difficult to imagine, but it is a fact in the second half of the XX century on the streets of Japan crime flourished, and ...

09-04-2025
Nicholas II and Alexandra: the story of true love until the ...
We know that the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, was madly in love with his wife Alexandra, which was not often the case among ...