History
04-12-2023
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 ...
04-12-2023
The story of the most serious girl, for whose laughter they ...
Everyone remembers the fairy tale about the princess Nesmeyana, having made her laugh, the main character received her as a wife ...
04-12-2023
What did the British criminals of a century ago look like
Perhaps someone thinks that British women of the time of King Edward were modest and reserved, but these police photos prove the ...
03-12-2023
5 secrets of the Venus of Milo, which may not be Venus at All
Venus de Milo was found on April 8, 1820. For two centuries now, this sculpture has been stirring the minds of historians, artists ...
03-12-2023
How balalaika appeared in Russia and why the church forbade them
Every nation has its own musical instruments. The Japanese have shamisen, the Americans have banjo, the Scots have bagpipes, the ...
03-12-2023
He will never refuse. History of Zippo
In 1933, the first mass-produced Zippo lighter was released. Over 88 years, more than half a million lighters have been sold, and ...
03-12-2023
Schumacher, Paparazzi, Stakhanov and other people whose names ...
There are people who leave their mark in history with great deeds and accomplishments, there are those who write great books or ...
02-12-2023
The Black Dragon of Nicholas II – the secret of the ...
Tattooed monarchs were not uncommon in the West. Russia is a completely different matter. Our drawings on the skin have long been ...
02-12-2023
Obscene legacy of Pushkin wrote the great poet "poetry for ...
We all know Alexander Pushkin as the author of a fine lyric poems, great poems and captivating prose. Much less known classics as ...
02-12-2023
Was there really a pirate "black mark"
Since childhood, we have been sure that real pirates are afraid of only one thing – the "black mark". The sign of robber ...
02-12-2023
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 ...
02-12-2023
Pages of life of ordinary and poor Americans in New York of ...
When you imagine New York, the so-called "Big Apple", bright neon signs pop up in your mind, streets filled with pedestrians, where ...
02-12-2023
Rebellious bride Sigrid the Proud, destroyed the three kings, ...
In the middle Ages between the Slavs and the Scandinavians maintained a close relationship. Kept it not only on trade but also on ...
02-12-2023
Favorite women General Secretary Brezhnev
Many biographers of Leonid Brezhnev write that the General Secretary of the CPSU have not experienced particularly warm feelings to ...
01-12-2023
Women on the verge of hysteria: the story of a vibrator
From a medical device to a "personal back massager" — the vibrator has experienced a rich and eventful history. It is now that he ...
01-12-2023
35 years in a wedding dress: the story of a love-crazed Eliza ...
Eliza Emily Donnithorne could have lived a happy and peaceful life, but instead she spent more than 35 years in seclusion and died ...
01-12-2023
Quinoa, bear meat, sterlet and other delights of Old Slavic ...
And what do you have for dinner tonight? Vegetable salad, fried potatoes with chicken? These dishes have become so familiar to us ...
01-12-2023
12 Best Playboy Covers
On December 1, 1953, the first issue of the men's magazine Playboy appeared on newsstands in Chicago. The publication was published ...
01-12-2023
The editorial board of LIFE magazine of the 1940s teaches how ...
There are not so many exciting moments in life as the first kiss. So the editors of LIFE magazine in 1942, it seems, thought the ...
01-12-2023
How the first Soviet meme Ushats appeared
Today, Internet memes have become an integral part of our lives. Some of them appear and are forgotten after a couple of months, ...
30-11-2023
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 ...
30-11-2023
Burundanga - does the creepy jungle drug really exist?
The number of urban legends generated by human imagination in recent years has been enormous. Some of them are invented from ...
30-11-2023
Looked like the processed photos before the Photoshop era
Now very few people without photo editor and before publication of the picture in social networks it is certainly processed in ...
30-11-2023
Tovarozameschenie on-old Russian
Our life consists of wireless technologies. It's hard to imagine that the ancestors had not that light bulb over my head, but even ...
30-11-2023
How did the image of Gella appear in Bulgakov’s novel ...
The vampire woman Gella in the novel “The Master and Margarita” is a secondary or even secondary hero. Nevertheless, readers ...
29-11-2023
"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 ...