History
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...