History
30-08-2024
Who made the Croatian island of Baljenac look like a fingerprint
Everyone who sees the island of Balenac from above has a question - what happened to this piece of land. This is not surprising, ...
30-08-2024
Impenetrable poverty on the streets of London in 1873-1877
In the period from 1873 to 1877, Scottish photographer John Thomson together with journalist Adolph Smith documented the life of ...
30-08-2024
Why did 21-year-old Russian Jack the Ripper Nikolai Radkevich ...
The first officially registered serial killer in Russia — 21-year-old Nikolai Radkevich shocked the public of the capital with ...
30-08-2024
30 best tweets from the account History Weird
Weird History ("a Strange story") is a Twitter account, which tells about the interesting, weird and fun events ever in the past. ...
30-08-2024
How did the terrible "death race" take place in 1942, in ...
A lot has been written about Nazi crimes in concentration camps. Their crimes are inhumane and disgusting, but some are also ...
30-08-2024
How the image of a cat with a bow turned into the most ...
It's hard to find a person who has never seen the cute cat Hello Kitty. It is everywhere - on clothes, bags and wallets, in ...
29-08-2024
15 Unforgettable Historical Photos That Tell Stories Beyond Words
In the vast timeline of our planet, humans have left behind countless stories, many of which never made it into our history books. ...
29-08-2024
The story of the leader Udre Udre — the most voracious ...
Such a terrible phenomenon as cannibalism was widespread throughout the planet in ancient times. Pagan religions contributed to ...
29-08-2024
Forbidden photos: the Warsaw Ghetto in the summer of 1941
German soldier-radio operator, photographer Willy Georg (Willy Georg) in the summer of 1941, while in Warsaw, illegally made his ...
29-08-2024
Nathan Strauss — the man who saved half a million American ...
Nathan Strauss is one of the most famous merchants in American history. As a co-owner and founder of the Macy's and Abraham & ...
29-08-2024
Why in the Middle Ages demons were painted with faces between ...
It is hardly worth reminding anyone that art is symbolic. But it's worth considering that medieval art was even more symbolic than ...
29-08-2024
Blondes from Africa: why the Guanches are considered ...
In ancient times, the Canary Islands were inhabited by a mysterious people who were destroyed by Europeans in the Middle Ages. ...
28-08-2024
Forced labor, or How Ceausescu by decree 770 "improved" the ...
The difficult demographic situation in the country may require decisive action from the authorities. But sometimes the measures ...
28-08-2024
The Cossack Timofey Box: the story of the life and devotion ...
Loyalty to the tsar and the Fatherland for many soldiers of pre-revolutionary Russia was not an empty phrase. They remembered the ...
28-08-2024
From dudes to hard workers: photos of Soviet youth of the 60s
What do you associate the 60s with? Maybe it was the youth of your parents or their parents, or maybe something else? This ...
28-08-2024
The history of the October railway - the very first in Russia
On August 28, 1851, the Nikolaevskaya Railway (now the Oktyabrskaya Railway) was built, which marked the beginning of the ...
27-08-2024
Highlights of African Americans ' struggle for their rights
At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, "I have a dream" was performed – the famous speech of the black preacher Martin Luther ...
27-08-2024
20 old photographs that show the past from an unexpected quarter
It is always interesting to look at old photos and to learn something new, for example, how people lived in the past, what their ...
27-08-2024
Mysterious "Wasp Nests" that were used for gold mining in ...
History is full of interesting and complete information about historical events, personalities and sights, but sometimes it throws ...
27-08-2024
Treasures of Ghana how did the glory of the Gold Coast
When in the XV century the first Portuguese landed their ships to the shores of Ghana, they were amazed by the amount of gold. It ...
27-08-2024
City of the dead: tombs 10 most notorious criminals
Usually famous criminals and maniacs live long, not noticing how outrages, robberies and murders step by step bring them closer to ...
26-08-2024
"Worn to the holes": sights that are mercilessly destroyed ...
The custom of rubbing statues and monuments is known all over the world. At the same time, no one can say when it was born and what ...
26-08-2024
Vin Mariani — wine with cocaine, which was drunk by Popes, ...
Cocaine is considered an absolute evil these days, but it wasn't always like that. In the 19th century, the narcotic substance ...
26-08-2024
22 impressive photos of things and phenomena that prove how ...
Our world is so huge and diverse that you can replenish your piggy bank of knowledge about it at least every day. In today's ...
26-08-2024
20 with integrally colored retro photos: how did teenage ...
These young Victorian beauties were contemporaries of the famous Alice, of Lewis Carroll. What girls wore the XIX century? What ...
25-08-2024
Portraits of children of the XIX century, sentenced to hard ...
In the color portraits of the 1870s, colored by the colorization expert Tom Marshall, children look at the lens too severely and ...