20-11-2024
Why men started wearing sideburns and why they stopped
It's hard to find a man with sideburns these days. Only some representatives of show business decorate themselves with them to ...
20-11-2024
What did sailors eat in the 18th century and why now no one ...
Before the advent of steamships, maritime service was incredibly difficult. The sailors constantly had to deal with sails, which, ...
20-11-2024
Always in the topic: why the image of the playful rabbit from ...
Sexy, cool and playful & # 8212; the image of a rabbit from Playboy has become one of the most unshakable over the past decades. ...
20-11-2024
6 legendary defeats on the battlefield, the cause of which ...
War exposes the best and worst in people. Some become heroes, others suffer a shameful fiasco. On the first write books, make ...
20-11-2024
To Red Square in slippers: When there were communal ...
With the advent of capitalism, the State Department Store on Red Square changed its status. Now the cream of society is being ...
20-11-2024
Toothpaste of the Ancient Romans: Disgusting Details of Oral ...
The serious attitude of the inhabitants of Ancient Rome to hygiene is no secret to anyone. The ruins of grandiose baths, in which ...
19-11-2024
Abandoned tunnel under Naples, which became a crypt for cars
One hundred and fifty meters from the large Piazza del Plebiscito in the center of Naples, there is a door to a passage that ...
19-11-2024
From Rasputin to Vysotsky: famous faces in color
We tend to perceive color photographs as something more real and modern. Thanks to the passion of the artist Olga Shirnina, who ...
19-11-2024
Tunisia of the late 19th century on old colored postcards
These magnificent colored postcards show Tunisia in all its splendor: here are busy streets, impressive architecture, and just the ...
19-11-2024
22 unique artifacts from the past that amaze and delight
It seems that the past epochs, with their primitive technologies, have left us nothing impressive except for famous works of art ...
19-11-2024
Nobuo Fujita, the only person in history to drop a bomb on ...
The confrontation between the United States and Japan in World War II took place in the Pacific region and in Southeast Asia. But ...
19-11-2024
What to feed the children in the Soviet institutions
The craze for middle-aged people cooking is understandable. We were fed in kindergartens and schools, that the psyche is trying to ...
19-11-2024
Tovarozameschenie on-old Russian
Our life consists of wireless technologies. It's hard to imagine that the ancestors had not that light bulb over my head, but even ...
19-11-2024
The Wind of change: Famous cities from the same perspective ...
Over the past hundred years, the world has changed so much that it is difficult to imagine how many things have disappeared and ...
18-11-2024
Fountain "Spitting Dictators" is a mysterious art object with ...
Fountains are hydraulic structures that carry a decorative load. We can confidently say that fountain design is a special kind of ...
18-11-2024
Why did the" sun King " Louis XIV disgust women
King Louis XIV of France, whom the courtiers called the "Sun King", is a very popular person in literature and cinema. We know this ...
18-11-2024
Young Alice: portraits of children by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, whose real name is Charles Latwidge Dodgson, is a writer who became famous thanks to the children's books "Alice in ...
18-11-2024
Street food in pre-revolutionary Russia: what did our ...
Today, those who want to have a quick snack on the street can treat themselves to not too refined, but a variety of dishes. In ...
18-11-2024
10 photos of the Great Smog in London
On December 5, 1952, one of the most terrible environmental events in the history of England took place. "Great Smog" (Eng. Great ...
18-11-2024
The mystery of the 17 wooden dead, which cannot be solved for ...
The world is full of mysteries that are beyond the control of man. Some of them, such as the secret of the Maya cosmonauts, are ...
18-11-2024
How did the Pavlova cake appear and how is it connected with ...
Pavlova cake can be bought today in many confectionery stores. But few people know the history of this popular dessert. It was ...
18-11-2024
Why pirates are depicted with parrots
In our view, a classic pirate is a stern man with a wooden leg, an eye patch, armed to the teeth and with a parrot on his shoulder. ...
17-11-2024
Bird Genocide: How Nature Took Revenge on the Chinese for the ...
Mao Zedong's sparrow extermination campaign in the 1950s backfired tragically in China. This ambitious attempt to improve ...
17-11-2024
How Americans experienced their most devastating crisis — ...
The United States entered the Great Depression, one of the most devastating economic crises in history, in the late 1920s, and ...
17-11-2024
The History of Crash Test Dummies — Volunteers, Dead People ...
As you know, the car is a source of increased danger. The first victim of a car accident is considered to be an Irish woman ...
17-11-2024
The story of Terry Jo Duperre — 11-year-old girl surviving ...
When a person is in a life-threatening situation is awful, but even worse when it happens to a child. 11-year-old American Terry ...