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14-11-2024
“The King’s Daughters”: how French brides solved ...
Today it is not surprising that people from different continents get married. But 300-400 years ago, even alliances with residents ...
14-11-2024
The blonde did not know! 22 rare photos of the legendary ...
Marilyn Monroe, perhaps the most famous blonde in the world, and even with a heavy destiny. We used to see it in the way — ...
14-11-2024
"Mask of shame": a vintage educational tools for gossips, ...
It is believed that the middle Ages it was brutal at times and for different faults immediately whipped, beheaded or hanged. But ...
14-11-2024
Women's knife fights: Why women in different eras took up ...
We usually imagine a woman with a knife in the kitchen and this image is not associated with danger and violence. But this was not ...
14-11-2024
How venereal diseases were treated in the old days: lead ...
Despite the fact that sexually transmitted diseases have been known for more than one century, they were effectively treated ...
14-11-2024
How to drink properly in a British pub: a guide for American ...
How is it right to drink with the British? What can and cannot be said to a drunken Scotsman in a kilt? How to spend time in a ...
14-11-2024
Jacob Riis: An immigrant photographer who shot an unknown ...
In 1870, 21-year-old Jacob Riis immigrated from his native Denmark to the rapidly developing and growing New York. The young man ...
14-11-2024
12 absurd but true facts about the Chukchi that will surprise you
Have you ever wondered how the inhabitants of Chukotka live? What is their culture, customs, what do they like and how do they ...
13-11-2024
24 seductive picture style icons of the XX century
From time to time you should look back at least in order to understand how beautiful it was, how easy and casual sometimes we were ...
13-11-2024
30 colorized historical photos that tell about the events of ...
Colorization is a unique method of "coloring" pictures, which gives historical photographs a second life, and sends us on a journey ...
13-11-2024
Boris I, King of Andorra: how the Russian combinator briefly ...
The name of Boris Skosyrev is not very familiar in our country, but in Europe this man was remembered very well. This energetic and ...
13-11-2024
The youngest bride in the history of Russia, or Why is it ...
Information about the customs that prevailed in Russia before the advent of Christianity is very scarce and fragmentary. Something ...
13-11-2024
Terrible prototypes: 11 real murderers, bloody deeds which ...
Their photos can be found only in the materials of criminal cases about crimes they've committed. Murderers, "famous for" the most ...
12-11-2024
Three extra vertebrae. On the women's backs in the paintings ...
All art is full of eroticism. Otherwise, simply can not be. But there are artists whose paintings eroticism is immediately visible, ...
12-11-2024
Saryn on the kichka: how the Volga pirates ushkuiniki operated
We used to consider piracy as a purely maritime trade. But the dashing guys robbed ships on the rivers without remorse. On the ...
12-11-2024
The life story and beautiful photos of nine-fingered geisha ...
Tise Takaoka was a geisha and later became a Buddhist nun. She went by the pseudonyms Chieha and Teruha, and her real name was ...
11-11-2024
Smile and courage — flight attendants who performed a feat ...
Very often, the work of flight attendants is too romanticized: distant countries, meeting people, good mood, perfect uniform. But ...
11-11-2024
How dwarfism helped a family of Jewish musicians Ovitz ...
The story of an artistic family of Jewish midget musicians from Romania, who managed to survive Auschwitz and the monstrous ...
11-11-2024
Lesbian novels of the mid-twentieth century pulp fiction that ...
Today cheap romance paperback no one takes seriously. This reading is taken to vacation, to read and to ruthlessly discarded. But ...
11-11-2024
Marshal Zhukov's favorite women
Zhukov's private life is ambiguous. It was stormy, confused, happy, and tragic. Despite the black-and-white Soviet principles and ...
11-11-2024
Money, infidelity, arrests, syphilis: the lives of six wives ...
What's it like to be the wife of the number one criminal? Someone replaced their spouses in business and unleashed criminal wars, ...
11-11-2024
Blond Sirte: the vanished people of the shamans who lived in ...
Among the Russian who migrated to the North, there existed legends about the mysterious people of the white-eyed Chud, who was ...
10-11-2024
The story of Julia Tofana, the legendary poisoner, who has ...
At the beginning of the winter of 1791 in In Vienna, in his apartment at Rauensteingasse 970, the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus ...
10-11-2024
Anatomical Venus, on whom pathologists of the XVIII century ...
Anatomical Venus is a life—size female wax figure, usually with real human hair and glass eyes. It was made specifically for ...
10-11-2024
The contrasts of Afghanistan: the end of the 1920-ies and the ...
Manicured gardens, majestic historic buildings and picturesque mountain ranges — these pictures cover a piece of history of ...
10-11-2024
25 unique historical frames that will take you back in time
Today in our collection we have collected 25 rare historical photographs, which you can look at for a long time and with breath. ...