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Soviet caricature of the family theme

06-07-2024

Soviet caricature of the family theme

Overage loafers sitting on the neck of their industrious old parents, old old men who marry young persons, bewilderment of the ...

Why do the Eskimos do with their wives "aredirect"?

06-07-2024

Why do the Eskimos do with their wives "aredirect"?

Eskimo custom of "aredirect", that is, the exchange of wives at the time, is rooted in antiquity. Scientists believe that it ...

Parisian windows into the history of the 19th and 20th centuries

06-07-2024

Parisian windows into the history of the 19th and 20th centuries

French photographer from Paris Julien Knez found retrophotographs taken between 1871 and 1968. In the photos you can see what the ...

History in color: photos of Russia in the early XX century, after colorization

06-07-2024

History in color: photos of Russia in the early XX century, ...

Planetzero project deals with the restoration and colorization of old photos. This treatment can infuse archival photographs new ...

Brilliant photography by photojournalism pioneer Kurt Hutton

06-07-2024

Brilliant photography by photojournalism pioneer Kurt Hutton

Photographer Kurt Hutton (or Kurt Hubschmann) was born in Germany in 1893. He began his photography career with the German agency ...

Cossack slaves: how the Russians imposed female slavery in Siberia

05-07-2024

Cossack slaves: how the Russians imposed female slavery in ...

Despite the fact that the Russian people suffered from slavery for most of their history, this did not discourage the desire to ...

How actress Monica Vitti went against beauty standards and became the face of the era herself

05-07-2024

How actress Monica Vitti went against beauty standards and ...

Fashion is fickle, and it's not just about clothes. Beauty standards are also changing. If earlier cosmetics, diets and ...

Bath and laundry factories — brothels or "purity factories" in which the Great Victory was forged?

05-07-2024

Bath and laundry factories — brothels or "purity factories" ...

Blistered to bloody calluses, fingers that do not bend from arthritis, skin corroded by lye and tons of laundry. Such were the ...

Having sex in the Middle Ages was very difficult

05-07-2024

Having sex in the Middle Ages was very difficult

Forget about romance, about beautiful ladies in trouble and noble knights in shining armor on a white horse. Because it was very ...

The Past that will never come back: 15 photos of 20th-century New York

05-07-2024

The Past that will never come back: 15 photos of 20th-century ...

New York is one of the most interesting cities in the world. Art, architecture, interesting people and much more are intertwined ...

Enemy of the state № 1: Jacques Mesrine — the robber, to whom France declared war

05-07-2024

Enemy of the state № 1: Jacques Mesrine — the robber, to ...

About Jacques mesrine written many books and filmed several movies. In France, it is the way it is today is contradictory and ...

What London was like before Banksy: Street art of the 80s

04-07-2024

What London was like before Banksy: Street art of the 80s

In the 80's in the British capital began a craze for street art. More and more graffiti began to appear on the streets: from the ...

The Princess of Midnight: The Mystery of Evdokia Golitsyna, the hostess of the St. Petersburg salon

04-07-2024

The Princess of Midnight: The Mystery of Evdokia Golitsyna, ...

Princess Evdokia Golitsyna was one of the most famous personalities of the XIX century. Perfectly educated and charming, she drove ...

The striking similarity of Hollywood celebrities and their historical counterparts

04-07-2024

The striking similarity of Hollywood celebrities and their ...

Of course, the appearance of each person is unique, even identical twins as they grow up, it becomes not so difficult to ...

7 historical figures whose body parts were stolen after death

04-07-2024

7 historical figures whose body parts were stolen after death

The heart of Anne Boleyn, the skull of Mozart and even the penis of Napoleon-you will agree, quite strange souvenirs in memory of ...

The real story of Queen Margot, brilliant, depraved and ruinous for lovers

04-07-2024

The real story of Queen Margot, brilliant, depraved and ...

On August 18, 1572, Paris noisily celebrated a wedding, which a few days later was replaced by a bloody massacre. Married ...

Not just Excalibur: 10 most famous swords of the Middle Ages

04-07-2024

Not just Excalibur: 10 most famous swords of the Middle Ages

In In the Middle Ages, the sword was the most common object, without which it was not only undesirable for a man to leave the ...

Speaking surname: why did comrades-in-arms and enemies hate General Shkuro

04-07-2024

Speaking surname: why did comrades-in-arms and enemies hate ...

It is well known that the Civil War that broke out in Russia after the 1917 revolution was protracted and very brutal. There was no ...

Drowning in Nantes — a monstrous massacre organized by a fanatic

03-07-2024

Drowning in Nantes — a monstrous massacre organized by a ...

The French Revolution of 1789 put an end to the monarchy. And at the same time, she took the lives of tens of thousands of ...

New York of the 80s, suspiciously reminiscent of life in the USSR

03-07-2024

New York of the 80s, suspiciously reminiscent of life in the USSR

California photographer Janet Delaney has made a series of stunning images that convey the special spirit of New York. All the ...

1930-1943: Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Dances

03-07-2024

1930-1943: Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Dances

The choreography of Busby Berkeley was like a dance in a kaleidoscope, so high was the mathematical accuracy of complex rhythmic ...

From cocaine to worms: the most savage methods of weight loss the past century

03-07-2024

From cocaine to worms: the most savage methods of weight loss ...

Years pass and centuries, and the eternal feminine question "How to lose weight?" remains relevant. In the war against overweight ...

Louis XIV: The God-given Sun King who ruined France

03-07-2024

Louis XIV: The God-given Sun King who ruined France

Louis XIV de Bourbon, who was named Louis the God-given at birth, will forever remain in history as the most luxurious European ...

20 incredibly beautiful artifacts of the past

03-07-2024

20 incredibly beautiful artifacts of the past

If you think that old things, it's something artisanal and ugly, something very wrong. As for beauty, elegance and other aspects of ...

Russian Robinson: as hussars Sergey Lisitsyn survived on the bleak shores of the sea of Okhotsk

02-07-2024

Russian Robinson: as hussars Sergey Lisitsyn survived on the ...

In 1857 the writer Alexander Sibiryakov traveled to the Far East of Russia. In the Amur region, the writer met with the owner of ...

13 Vintage Photos Of Cats That Show Nothing Has Changed In Decades, Collected By This Journalist

02-07-2024

13 Vintage Photos Of Cats That Show Nothing Has Changed In ...

Paula Leite Moreira, the journalist behind the Instagram account All Vintage Cats (@allvintagecats), has created a shared space for ...