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13-04-2024
The most absurd taxes in the world
Did you know that the famous Latin phrase "money does not smell", pronounced by the Roman Emperor Vespasian, has a direct ...
13-04-2024
It's hard to believe, but these 5 people with anomalies ...
From time to time, nature plays a cruel joke on us and "special" people are born. They are often called freaks, but this does not ...
13-04-2024
Why do the military salute by putting their hand to their head
The military jokingly say: "They don't put their hand to an empty head." They mean that military honor should be given only if ...
13-04-2024
What is good for a Russian... Sketches of foreigners who ...
Among the historical sources from which scientists draw knowledge about Russia of the past centuries, there are notes of foreigners ...
13-04-2024
An intimate portrait of Queen Victoria, what an immodest ...
The Victorian era was marked by the flourishing of the arts and gave us many beautiful works of painting, sculpture, literature and ...
13-04-2024
8 interesting facts about clothes
Did you know that the inventor of sewing machines also invented the zipper? Or that buttons were originally objects of decoration? ...
12-04-2024
Classic "divorces" of the 90s, which people are still being ...
Naive post-Soviet citizens were an excellent target for fraudsters in the 90s. However, modern Russians have not gone very far from ...
12-04-2024
History of women's duels
Dueling is considered the prerogative of men, but this opinion is erroneous. Women, too, were not averse to fighting each other, ...
12-04-2024
Amazing stories about how the world's masterpieces were ...
In this article you will find incredible stories about people who are incredibly lucky to buy priceless works of art for a mere ...
11-04-2024
"The space is calling everyone! And call. How vechnyy Zov" ...
12 April 1961 booster "R‑7", created at the factory "Progress" in Kuibyshev (now Samara), launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into ...
11-04-2024
22 archival photos that can convey the atmosphere of the past ...
Would you like to go back to the past for a while? If so, which period would you choose? It's clear that you can't tell right away, ...
11-04-2024
Harsh students of the Middle Ages: how was the largest ...
In the student environment, a fight is quite a common phenomenon. What can I do, it's a young thing — they argued, fought and ...
11-04-2024
"Atypical girls": representatives of the punk movement from ...
These rare photos, published recently in Sam Nee's book "Atypical Girls: Styles and Sounds of the Transatlantic Indie Revolution" ...
11-04-2024
18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past
Some old photos show such rare phenomena that you can look at them for hours. And behind each such frame from the past are the ...
11-04-2024
How to entertain yourself if you find yourself in the Middle ...
The life of the average medieval European was short, dangerous and not rich. However, in those days people also had their own small ...
11-04-2024
The intriguing 50s: when women wore "bullets" on their chests
In the middle of the last century, bullet bras became fashionable among Western women, mainly American women. With the bones ...
11-04-2024
Portraits of “troubled girls” - inhabitants of Bedlam
The eerie vintage photographs show women who turned out to be patients at the notorious Bethlem Royal Hospital. This establishment ...
10-04-2024
Joseph Pujol is the most famous fart in the world
Have you noticed that often people who are about to spoil the air, raise their index finger up, saying " Attention, something is ...
10-04-2024
Fun from a century ago: Strange interactive Postcards with ...
In the first two decades of the XX century, against the background of technological progress, the development of photography, ...
09-04-2024
Why the Catholic Church dislikes cats
In the middle Ages cats suffered a great deal from Catholics. They were burned and tortured, thrown behind bars and into the fire, ...
09-04-2024
To hell with etiquette! Queens who knew how to rock to the ...
It is considered that kings and queens are prim, reserved and a little boring. But the women we want to talk about below prove the ...
09-04-2024
26 freaky historical facts from the series " Nichosi!»
There is a misconception that life used to be safer and calmer. Of course, this is just a misconception. Each historical period ...
09-04-2024
As our grandmother coped without slow cookers and vacuum ...
Modern women are lazy and spoiled. At least this sure most men… Every time my wife tells how very tired, some of them will ...
09-04-2024
"Jugs of the dead" found in remote mountain forests of Laos
The places of Southeast Asia, remote from civilization, hide many secrets and riddles that they are in no hurry to part with. In ...
09-04-2024
5 outstanding personalities who became victims of the Inquisition
On May 15, 1252, Pope Innocent IV read out the bull "ad extirpanda", according to which the torture of those suspected of heresy ...
09-04-2024
The 15 most famous mobsters of all time
The dubious underground world of the mafia has fascinated people for many years. The luxurious but criminal lifestyle of the ...