History
25-03-2024
Why the Babylonian Queen Semiramis has remained forever in ...
The ancient Babylonian kingdom existed for almost fifteen hundred years. Despite this, most of us will find it difficult to name at ...
25-03-2024
Escaped death 7 times and hit the million dollar jackpot: Who ...
A simple Croatian music teacher Frane Selak is called the luckiest person on the planet! All because he was miraculously able to ...
25-03-2024
Forest Fenn's Treasure: The Mysterious Modern Treasure ...
Stories about hidden treasures have captivated people's minds for centuries. The chance of finding a treasure is relatively ...
25-03-2024
20 Instructive Facts About the Romances and Intrigues of Kings
Love stories associated with people of royal blood always attract the attention of the public - both in the old days and now. Maybe ...
25-03-2024
Young Greta Garbo and the lion - how the legendary photo appeared
Hollywood has been attracting ambitious and assertive people who dream of fame, money and self-realization for more than a century. ...
24-03-2024
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 ...
24-03-2024
Archaeologists have revealed what the wine of the ancient ...
Wine is one of the most ancient drinks. In many civilizations it played an important role in culture, trade, social and religious ...
24-03-2024
Top 10 Temples in Southeast Asia You Must See
It may take decades to get acquainted with the entire cultural and religious heritage of Southeast Asia - it is so rich. Therefore, ...
24-03-2024
"Women will give birth to new ones" - what is this phrase and ...
The phrase "Women will give birth to new ones" is strongly associated with Soviet Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. But did ...
23-03-2024
Zelenka and plantain all diseases: all about home medicine in ...
Modern children often get sick – colds, allergies, and so on. Although in our childhood everything was the same. When we noticed ...
23-03-2024
Give over the plan: Soviet youth of the 60s
Readers who bought the November issue LIFE 1967, expecting to see black-and-white pictures of the revolution fifty years ago: Red ...
23-03-2024
20 first photos from the history of photography
On May 17, 1961, a color photograph made using the method of the Scottish physicist James Maxwell was publicly shown for the first ...
23-03-2024
The goddess of America, the fairy of the mountain, and ...
A specialist in the history of Japan and East Asia, Nick Kapur, opened a Twitter thread with drawings from an 1861 Japanese book ...
23-03-2024
Some of the craziest ways to show love from different ...
Have you ever committed follies for the sake of love? Maybe they were making some crazy gift or striking the imagination of the ...
23-03-2024
12 Interesting Historical Pictures That Might Teach You ...
Time keeps marching on, and we're powerless to stop it. However, people have been doing a good job of capturing fleeting moments ...
23-03-2024
How did the world's most famous photograph appear and how ...
It can be said without exaggeration that the photograph “Serenity” (Bliss) is the most famous photograph today. It was first ...
23-03-2024
What the Moscow Metro looked like in 1935
The first line of the Moscow Metro opened on May 15, 1935 and ran from Sokolniki station to Park Kultury station. Since then, 14 ...
23-03-2024
How iconic images of the past were edited in the developing room
Pablo Inirio is a master of photo printing from the New York headquarters of Magnum Photos. He personally worked on some of the ...
23-03-2024
10 discoveries for which we should say thank you to the ...
The Han Dynasty ruled China for more than 400 years. It is not surprising that in Chinese historiography, the Han period is ...
23-03-2024
Beijing 1947 in Color: At the Crossroads of Epochs
One of the greatest cities in the world was captured on color film by American photographer Dmitry Kessel in 1947. For a city with ...
23-03-2024
Rare photos of the imperial train in which Nicholas II lived ...
In 1915-1917, the Imperial Train became one of the permanent residences of the last Russian emperor. This train also included a ...
23-03-2024
The weapons of the polar samurai: what the formidable Chukchi ...
Today, most of us Chukchi evoke a strong association with the hero of the joke — simple and harmless. But 150-200 years ago, ...
23-03-2024
Colorful portraits of the Permians: unique photos of the ...
In 1868, the researcher K. Tchaikovsky visited the Perm Region, where he photographed local residents. Thanks to these images, we ...
22-03-2024
When the gods were colorful: an unexpected look at ancient ...
If you ask the question, what color are the antique statues of gods and heroes, even a schoolboy will answer that they are white. ...
22-03-2024
Robert Doisneau — the man who has sung Paris photos
Robert Doisneau (FR. Robert Doisneau 14 April 1912 — 1 April 1994) was a French photographer, master of French humanist ...
22-03-2024
Bright Italy the 50-60-ies of the photographs Paolo di Paolo
Photographer Paolo di Paolo did a lot of wonderful pictures dedicated to his native Italy. He was acquainted with many celebrities ...