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!["The Dark Strangler" by Earl Leonard Nelson](/img/2024/the-dark-strangler-by-earl/the-dark-strangler-by-earl-540x310.jpg ""The Dark Strangler" by Earl Leonard Nelson")
!["All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are clowns": children's costumes for New Year's parties in the 90s](/img/2024/all-the-girls-are/all-the-girls-are-540x310.jpg ""All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are clowns": children's costumes for New Year's parties in the 90s")
22.12.24
Winter in Soviet retro photos
21-12-2024
Comprachicos: how a gang of kidnappers have been doing ...
Deformities and physical abnormalities simultaneously frightened and attracted people at all times. The so-called "circus freaks" ...
21-12-2024
10 invaluable things that have been destroyed because of ...
Do you have an awkward acquaintances, in whose hands literally all falls down, breaks and crumbles? But to break it or mess up with ...
21-12-2024
20 Events That Surprisingly Happened Simultaneously
History is full of amazing coincidences that make us look at the chronology of events differently. Imagine that in 1977, when the ...
21-12-2024
Most impressive photos of Antarctica beginning of the XX century
James Francis Hurley (James Francis Hurley), known by the name of Frank Hurley (Frank Hurley) — the most famous Australian ...
20-12-2024
What was the fate of the real prototypes of children's fairy ...
On October 14, 1926, Alan Milne's book "Winnie the pOoh" was published in the London publishing house Methuen & Co. Children, ...
20-12-2024
Looked like the Chilean capital's youth in the 70s
Santiago is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the most populated cities in South America. We are not so much ...
20-12-2024
The amazing story of the Cocaine Bear — a bear who ate 34 ...
The story of drug smuggling has a lot of amazing occasions, but the case of Coca Bears — one of the most impressive. He became a ...
20-12-2024
Why did man start shoeing horses?
For thousands of years in the wild, horses survived without shoes. Moreover, even domesticated animals ran without these ...
20-12-2024
"Killed a spy or a woman on the run?": I would say, in the ...
In 1970 in the valley Isdale in Norway passers-by found the burnt body of a woman. What at first looked like an accident, start to ...
20-12-2024
30 shocking photos that won the Pulitzer prize
Established in 1942 Pulitzer prize for outstanding picture later divided into two nominations: best art and the best news ...
19-12-2024
What the Internet looked like 30+ years ago
On December 20, 1990, the first website was launched, created by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who worked at the time at the ...
19-12-2024
Favorite Soviet actors in childhood and adulthood
That looked like famous actors of the Soviet screen in the childhood years. Unfortunately, many archived images are preserved not ...
19-12-2024
Without the past and the future: treatment of lobotomy from ...
Terrible the procedure of lobotomy was very popular in the 1940-1950-ies. Patients suffering from depression and schizophrenia seen ...
19-12-2024
How did the sign appear to give exactly an odd number of flowers
For mankind has accumulated many signs in its history. There is also a bias against black cats and a dislike of the number 13 and ...
19-12-2024
How did the custom of pulling boys' ears on their birthday ...
Every boy was pulled by the ears at least once on his birthday. Much less often, girls can remember about such a procedure, but ...
19-12-2024
Haukartl: The Deadly Viking Dish
We often hear about the deadly fugu fish, popular in Japan. But few people know that European cuisine also has dishes that can kill ...
19-12-2024
How the corpse of a bandit from the Wild West worked as a ...
Even children know that skeletons, zombies and monsters in the fear room are not real. But it turns out there are exceptions. In ...
19-12-2024
The tragic life of bearded women Annie Jones, who was a real lady
Even in the middle of the XX century, when people came close to solving the mystery of the atom and was looking for ways to reach ...
19-12-2024
13 the most terrifying mummies of the world
Probably all of you watched a horror movie about a mummy come to life, attacking people. These evil dead has always excited the ...
19-12-2024
Painted knees — a forgotten fashion trend of the 1920s
Make-up on the knees. It sounds strange, but a hundred years ago it was the most fashionable trend in the Western beauty industry. ...
18-12-2024
How Car Hood Figures Appeared and Why They Disappeared
Since the inception of the automobile industry, manufacturers have sought to distinguish their cars, make them unique and easily ...
18-12-2024
Killer waves: how an old sea tale turned out to be a reality
Stories have been told for hundreds of years about huge waves that appear in the ocean out of nowhere and carry mortal danger. ...
18-12-2024
Not by bread alone: tobacco, alcohol and sweets in the Red Army
80 years ago, the Chairman of the State Defense Committee (GKO) of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, signed Resolution No. 562 "On ...
18-12-2024
The touching story of Frida the half-girl, one of the last ...
Modern people perceive "freak shows" and human zoos as medieval savagery. However, the ban on such shows was introduced ...
![The Tragic Story of the "Living Skeleton" Isaac Sprague](/img/2024/the-tragic-story-of-the/the-tragic-story-of-the-170x170.jpg "The Tragic Story of the "Living Skeleton" Isaac Sprague")
17-12-2024
The Tragic Story of the "Living Skeleton" Isaac Sprague
To modern people, freak circuses and “human zoos” seem terrible and disgusting. But there was a time when they were the only ...
17-12-2024
8 famous photos that hide fascinating stories
Probably everyone has seen a photo of a sailor and a nurse kissing in Times Square or a portrait of Albert Einstein with his tongue ...