04-02-2024
Guess what these forgotten things that used to be used daily ...
Trembleuze, chatelain, grandel… These objects are witnesses of the times of the past, and modern people can easily be confused. ...
![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")
04-02-2024
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 ...
03-02-2024
How the prostitutes of New Orleans lived 100 years ago
From luxurious palaces to crumbling huts, these 1912 black-and-white photographs show how New Orleans prostitutes lived a hundred ...
03-02-2024
How girls who Lost their Panties made Art Fram a famous Artist
Chicago artist Art Frahm, who worked in the pin-up style, became famous for women losing their panties. It was the series of ...
03-02-2024
Magazine "Ogonek": illustrations of Soviet life
Happy people are open, calm smiles and bright eyes, confident about the future, ready to take on the day. You look exactly like us ...
03-02-2024
18 strange and disgusting facts about Britain in the ...
Stiff British during the reign of Queen Victoria seem to be an example of cinnosti and reason. It's hard to imagine, but the Brits ...
![Johnny Eck, the "king of the freaks" who was born with half a body](/img/2024/johnny-eck-the-king-of-the/johnny-eck-the-king-of-the-170x170.jpg "Johnny Eck, the "king of the freaks" who was born with half a body")
03-02-2024
Johnny Eck, the "king of the freaks" who was born ...
Freak shows and “human museums” seem distant and almost mythical to us. It’s hard to believe that just a century ago, freak ...
02-02-2024
As was arranged, "the Swedish family" of the don Cossacks ...
The don Cossacks have always lived strong Orthodox families. In the XVI-XVII centuries monogamy was not the most suitable type of ...
02-02-2024
Looked like the Moscow of the late XVIII century before the ...
Fires in ancient times was a terrible enemy of Moscow. The entry of the first Moscow fire is dated in the annals 1177 the year when ...
02-02-2024
Prostitution in The Third Reich — rare archival footage
The topic of prostitution in Germany during the Second World War has always been taboo, only in the 90s German publications began ...
02-02-2024
From Hippocrates to Pirogov: military field surgery in ...
Wars have accompanied humanity throughout its history. The methods of warfare have changed a lot over the centuries, but death ...
01-02-2024
22 memories of the dashing 90s that have become a common past
Many still remember the dashing 90s, which still echo in our judgments, actions and way of life. We have collected a special photo ...
01-02-2024
From the Bush to the consumer: how did the production of tea ...
From year to year in Japan is booming real collection of tea ceremony. A special procedure was in the collection of green like that ...
01-02-2024
What Cairo looked like in 1910
These color photos were taken in Cairo in 1910, when it was growing rapidly. More precisely, these are slides painted by hand, on ...
01-02-2024
A fairy tale based on real events: what is true in the film ...
Leonid Gaidai's painting "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" is rich in historical mistakes, which, of course, is excusable ...
01-02-2024
How to assess the strength and intensity of earthquakes
On January 30, 1935, the American seismologist Charles Richter proposed a new way to describe the power of earthquakes, known today ...
31-01-2024
Hundreds of centuries in just a few seconds: looks like the ...
Ancient ruins give people a unique glimpse into the past and learn how our ancestors lived and what houses were built. Historians, ...
31-01-2024
The terrible story of anesthesia, from mandrake root and ...
Any surgical intervention in the body, whether it is a kidney transplant or tooth extraction— is an unpleasant thing. But today, ...
31-01-2024
Horror repeats itself: the same type of motifs on vintage ...
There is nothing strange in the fact that certain images and concepts of fear are repeated in the horror genre. Themes of horror ...
31-01-2024
A few facts about life in Ancient Rome, which was not in the ...
We all studied in school history of Ancient Rome and watched a lot of historical films about Caesar and the gladiators. But this ...
31-01-2024
Who put Bella in the Witch's Elm? Britain's Most Mysterious Crime
When it comes to unsolved crimes, they usually mean different things. In addition to the identity of the attacker, there may be an ...
31-01-2024
"Wine, confusion, orgies and so on": 7 signs that you are in ...
George Zotov once again pleased his readers with a selection of funny facts. This time the man, in his usual cheerful manner, told ...
30-01-2024
Farah Pahlavi: the last queen of Iran who lost everything but ...
Today, some perceive Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as a symbol of a secular country free ...
30-01-2024
What is the difference between a firefighter and a firefighter?
For most of us, there is no difference between a firefighter and a firefighter. When talking about firefighters, we rarely think ...
30-01-2024
Why do men grow long nails on his pinky
Many are tormented by the question — why do some grow long nails on his pinky. If you ask the owners of such "decorations", we ...
30-01-2024
Strange and frightening exercise machines of the Victorian era
It's hard to imagine that these bulky Victorian-era machines, most resembling instruments for sophisticated torture, were used for ...