History
28.12.25
Why Americans are called Yankees
25-12-2025
Robinson with a machine gun, or the Amazing story of the ...
In our view, Robinsonade is associated with the heroic survival of a person who, due to unforeseen circumstances, found himself far ...
25-12-2025
35 archival photos that captured rare historical moments
Sometimes a single photo can tell a lot more than all those dry paragraphs of historical references. These pictures will tell you ...
25-12-2025
Blond Silvett David: the mystery of the unknown Muse of the ...
Artists perpetuate the images of his muses in paintings, sculptures and other works. Them they draw inspiration for creativity. ...
25-12-2025
He will never refuse. History of Zippo
In 1933, the first mass-produced Zippo lighter was released. Over 88 years, more than half a million lighters have been sold, and ...
![How the "Tomb of Christ", or the Alternative Gospel, appeared in Japan](/img/2025/how-the-tomb-of-christ-or/how-the-tomb-of-christ-or-170x170.jpg "How the "Tomb of Christ", or the Alternative Gospel, appeared in Japan")
24-12-2025
How the "Tomb of Christ", or the Alternative ...
Aomori Prefecture in the north of the Japanese island of Honshu is an agricultural region famous for its delicious apples. In ...
24-12-2025
How playing cards helped escape from German captivity
The Second World War is notorious not only for the huge number of casualties, but also for the large number of prisoners on both ...
24-12-2025
Amazingly vivid retro photographs of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, ...
Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) is perhaps the most famous "amateur" in the history of photography. The art world discovered his ...
24-12-2025
Retrofoto from the series "What the fuck?!"
Analyzing old archives, you can stumble upon something that involuntarily raises a natural question: "What the hell is this?!" ...
24-12-2025
"The Beautiful Chocolate Maker" - the mystery of the famous ...
"The Beautiful Chocolate Maker" - a portrait of a neatly dressed beauty gracefully holding a tray with a cup of hot chocolate and a ...
24-12-2025
Amazing photos of new York 1980‑ies
Compared to the 1970-ies 1980‑e years were a time of cautious optimism in new York. Boom on wall street fueled the speculative ...
23-12-2025
The King of scammers — how Victor Lustig was able to sell ...
Victor Lustig is considered one of the most skillful and famous scammers in the world. He was arrested about 50 times and released ...
23-12-2025
Francesco Lentini - the three-legged "king of freaks" who ...
The symbol of the island of Sicily — treskilion, represents three joined legs bent at the knees, with the head of the Gorgon ...
23-12-2025
How anthropologist Grover Krantz and his Dog Clyde became ...
There is an unusual exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. This is the skeleton of a man, on whose chest ...
23-12-2025
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 ...
23-12-2025
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 ...
23-12-2025
Korean heating system ondol — underfloor heating that ...
Every region of the world with a fairly cold winter has its own traditional ways of heating homes. In Western European countries, ...
22-12-2025
The Story of Narcisse Pierre Pelletier, a White Aborigine of ...
Sometimes a single incident can completely change a person's life, turning it into a legend whose reality is hard to believe. ...
22-12-2025
Winter in Soviet retro photos
Drifts of snow, frost and sun, winter fun — c Soviet time, little has changed for this time of year. Feel the true atmosphere ...
22-12-2025
Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty
Students, workers, collective farmers. From the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova… They are all very ...
22-12-2025
6 Inventions That Killed Their Creators
Invention is a creative, exciting, yet sometimes dangerous process. When creating something new, a person isn't always able to ...
22-12-2025
How drinking straws were invented
Straws are such a commonplace item that we rarely think about their origins. It seems they've always been around: in cocktails, ...
21-12-2025
The time of fridges: a butcher's shop in Victorian England
In the Victorian era Britain was quickly urbanized. By 1851 it became the first country lived in cities of more people than in the ...
21-12-2025
The Life and Death of Jean Harlow, Hollywood's First ...
Hollywood diva Jean Harlow became the first actress to be nicknamed a "platinum blonde." Men were ready to follow her to ...
21-12-2025
Burundanga - does the creepy jungle drug really exist?
The number of urban legends generated by human imagination in recent years has been enormous. Some of them are invented from ...
21-12-2025
Why the name Svetlana is not recognized by the Church
The formation of Russian names occurred centuries under the influence of many factors and cultures. Despite this, our imenoslov ...
21-12-2025
The secret of Marilyn Monroe's skirt: why she pulled up and ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, Manhattan became a favorite walking place for lonely New York men. They gathered in groups in ...