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Why the Babylonian Queen Semiramis has remained forever in 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 ...

Escaped death 7 times and hit the million dollar jackpot: Who is he, the luckiest man in the world?

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 ...

Forest Fenn's Treasure: The Mysterious Modern Treasure That Cost Many Lives

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 ...

20 Instructive Facts About the Romances and Intrigues of Kings

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 ...

Young Greta Garbo and the lion - how the legendary photo appeared

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. ...

34 photos that show how the world has changed over the last 100 years

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 ...

Archaeologists have revealed what the wine of the ancient Romans tasted like.

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 ...

Top 10 Temples in Southeast Asia You Must See

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, ...

"Women will give birth to new ones" - what is this phrase and why is it attributed to Zhukov

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 ...

Zelenka and plantain all diseases: all about home medicine in the USSR

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 ...

Give over the plan: Soviet youth of the 60s

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 ...

20 first photos from the history of photography

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 ...

The goddess of America, the fairy of the mountain, and Washington defeating the Tiger: vintage manga on the theme of US history

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 ...

Some of the craziest ways to show love from different countries and eras

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 ...

12 Interesting Historical Pictures That Might Teach You Something New About Our World

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 ...

How did the world's most famous photograph appear and how much did it cost?

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 ...

What the Moscow Metro looked like in 1935

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 ...

How iconic images of the past were edited in the developing room

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 ...

10 discoveries for which we should say thank you to the Chinese Han Dynasty

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 ...

Beijing 1947 in Color: At the Crossroads of Epochs

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 ...

Rare photos of the imperial train in which Nicholas II lived and traveled

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 ...

The weapons of the polar samurai: what the formidable Chukchi fought with

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, ...

Colorful portraits of the Permians: unique photos of the residents of the Perm Region in 1868

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 ...

When the gods were colorful: an unexpected look at ancient sculptures

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. ...

Robert Doisneau — the man who has sung Paris photos

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 ...

Bright Italy the 50-60-ies of the photographs Paolo di Paolo

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 ...