History
10-12-2023
Unique paintings of Morris Hirshfield, who began drawing out ...
Many people in older age are hesitant to take up something new: they feel that they can not learn to do it the new good, no one ...
10-12-2023
Why Ukrainians have long called Russians katsaps
The old nickname of Ukrainians "Ukrainians" can easily be explained by the forelocks on the heads of Zaporozhye Cossacks. But the ...
10-12-2023
4 most strange and perverted myths from the life of the gods ...
Reading ancient legends, myths and legends, you can stumble not only on the epic moments of the victory of good over evil, but also ...
10-12-2023
He despised women and killed his mother: the real face of the ...
Many popular cartoons were created at the Walt Disney Studio. But Disney himself, according to the reviews of his relatives, was ...
10-12-2023
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 ...
09-12-2023
Peter Sellers' 10 Best Movies, Ranked
Peter Sellers was one of the greatest comedic actors of all time, and his best movies are still just as hilarious now as they ...
09-12-2023
Weegee is a restless photographer who has been everywhere and ...
Old photos always arouse interest. But there are just old photos, and there are photos taken by Weegee. This is something very ...
09-12-2023
The birth of a legend: how did Mickey Mouse come up?
What do you know about Mickey Mouse? In fact, this famous and beloved character has its own long and interesting history. Mickey ...
08-12-2023
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 ...
08-12-2023
Who are the hay girls and what tasks did they perform in the ...
In the estates of landlords under serfdom, servants of various profiles lived and worked. It was believed that the more servants a ...
08-12-2023
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 ...
08-12-2023
December 9, 1961: the day when 18 people came to the Beatles ...
The Liverpool foursome had to play for an audience that barely outnumbered them. See also: The tragic life story of Stuart ...
08-12-2023
Young Alice: portraits of children by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, whose real name is Charles Latwidge Dodgson, is a writer who became famous thanks to the children's books "Alice in ...
08-12-2023
Alcoholism and treatment with mercury: how women lived in the ...
In 1889, in Moscow, there were 111 public houses, 1898 — 68. By 1904, the number had increased to 73, and lived there more than a ...
08-12-2023
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 ...
08-12-2023
Why scientists call 536 the worst year in history
Can you imagine that you wake up 547 days in a row, but you don't see the sun? A year and a half ago you were a prosperous farmer, ...
08-12-2023
Why have men massively stopped wearing hats since the second ...
For centuries, hats have played an important role in men's wardrobe, performing utilitarian, decorative and even symbolic ...
07-12-2023
What to feed the children in the Soviet institutions
The craze for middle-aged people cooking is understandable. We were fed in kindergartens and schools, that the psyche is trying to ...
07-12-2023
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 ...
07-12-2023
The kiss of shame and the carriage Masturbation: intimate ...
Our ancestors often cited as an example of how innocent and chaste people who have no sense of depravity and sin. But in fact, they ...
07-12-2023
The Last Days of Feudal Japan
These rare pictures tell about what life was like in Japan in 1908, before industrialization and the two world wars. And this life ...
07-12-2023
Favorite Soviet actors in childhood and adulthood
That looked like famous actors of the Soviet screen in the childhood years. Unfortunately, many archived images are preserved not ...
07-12-2023
9 skeletons in the closet of the American government
Surely you have friends who are obsessed with conspiracies. No, not those who just know about them, but real fans — bespectacled ...
07-12-2023
How Vasily Margelov single-handedly forced 32,000 SS men to ...
Vasily Filippovich Margelov is known as the man who created the Airborne Forces and commanded these troops for many years. That is ...
07-12-2023
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, ...
06-12-2023
Havana looked like 100 years ago
These pictures of Havana, made in the first years of independence of Cuba from Spain, show us the richness of the architecture of ...