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19.12.25
The legend of Judith and Oloferne
!["All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are clowns": children's costumes for New Year's parties in the 90s](/img/2025/all-the-girls-are/all-the-girls-are-540x310.jpg ""All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are clowns": children's costumes for New Year's parties in the 90s")
18-12-2025
Adele Syndrome: How Love Turns into a Dangerous Diagnosis
An extreme form of love addiction, reminiscent of obsession, is known as Adele syndrome. Although in the International ...
18-12-2025
Mysterious Indochina: 100 years ago
The Indochina Peninsula, located in southeast Asia, is a favorite place for tourists all over the world. Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, ...
18-12-2025
The story of the life and death of General Karbysheva, which ...
General Dmitry Karbyshev — one of the Soviet commanders who performed his duty to the end. This man was captured in the battle, ...
18-12-2025
Why did the" sun King " Louis XIV disgust women
King Louis XIV of France, whom the courtiers called the "Sun King", is a very popular person in literature and cinema. We know this ...
17-12-2025
Photo of Auschwitz in color: so even worse
The death of over a million people in the death camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau) — a terrible page in the history of the ...
17-12-2025
"We will bury you!" and other mistakes in translation that ...
Sometimes much more depends on accurate and correct translation than just understanding the interlocutor. Below we will tell you ...
17-12-2025
If the chair Busby — the deadliest furniture on the planet?
In the world there are a lot of things covered mystical, sometimes macabre stories. Mirror, bringing misfortune, paintings, causing ...
16-12-2025
Saturnalia is a loose holiday of the ancient Romans, which ...
Many believe that winter holidays appeared together with Christianity. But this is not so — before Christmas appeared, another ...
16-12-2025
Mannequin named Cynthia doll, which was the envy of Marilyn ...
In 1932, American sculptor and designer Lester GABA created a mannequin that looked very similar to a living woman, and named it ...
16-12-2025
From serf to court supplier: the story of the “vodka ...
Smirnoff brand vodka is known all over the world. Many consider it Russian, drawing conclusions from the name. The famous British ...
16-12-2025
16 hoaxes that have been believed in for a very long time
Many people are interested in topics that science cannot explain. We like conspiracies and hoaxes. Throughout history, both ...
15-12-2025
"Killed a spy or a woman on the run?": I would say, in the ...
In 1970 in the valley Isdale in Norway passers-by found the burnt body of a woman. What at first looked like an accident, start to ...
15-12-2025
11 most ridiculous deaths in human history
You've probably all heard about how Isadora Duncan died. Yeah, her death was really ridiculous. But imagine that you can literally ...
15-12-2025
Oh, you son of a bitch! Why did Pushkin fake his death and ...
The brilliant poet, the founder of the modern Russian language Alexander Pushkin did not die as a result of a duel on the Black ...
15-12-2025
Kuldhara is an Indian ghost village with a creepy story
There are many places in the world from which people have disappeared for one reason or another. Wars, epidemics, natural disasters ...
15-12-2025
Conman Konstantin Korovko is the prototype of the underground ...
We all know very well that many famous writers took their characters from real life. Did so and Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, ...
15-12-2025
Chanel with the scent of Nazism: was the legendary fashion ...
Without a doubt, Coco Chanel was one of the most outstanding women of the 20th century. Throughout the world, this personality is ...
15-12-2025
The Life and Death of Louis Dominique Cartouche, the King of ...
In early 18th-century Paris, his name was whispered—Cartouche. For some, he was a daring robber and the leader of a desperate ...
14-12-2025
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 ...
14-12-2025
Prague defenestrations — a simple and effective way to ...
When something spoils, breaks or gets boring, we throw this thing away. In the Middle Ages, when life was treated more simply, ...
14-12-2025
How in ancient times women learned about pregnancy
Modern medicine offers many accurate ways to determine pregnancy at the earliest stages. But all these techniques have appeared ...
13-12-2025
Child labor in twentieth-century America: photographs of ...
After the American Civil War, the availability of natural resources, new inventions and a capacious market provoked a rapid ...
13-12-2025
East and West: Color photographs of Moscow and New York in 1969
In 1969, it was hard to imagine a more different life than in two major cities - New York and Moscow. The embodiment of capitalism ...
13-12-2025
Fear and disgust in Sumer, or What representatives of ancient ...
Almost all the holidays that exist today, in one way or another, are associated with ancient agricultural cults. Settlement and ...
13-12-2025
The tragic story of creating a random picture of a "Desperate ...
In the spring of 1942, photographer Russell Sorgi made a very rare and tragic shot, capturing the last moments of a stranger's ...
12-12-2025
Rostov triangle: why it is born more of maniacs
Since 1970‑ies in the neighboring cities of Rostov-on-don, Shakhty and Taganrog was sent to jail 37 serial killers, who killed ...