History
22-06-2024
So-so"corporate": what did a real ball look like and smell like
We want to think loftily about balls. Oh, Natasha Rostova! All our performances are from movies or novels. And there, of course, ...
22-06-2024
Summer traffic: photos of drivers in traffic jams on London ...
On a warm May morning in 1986, London photographer Chris Dorley-Brown took his camera and went to the Rolls Royce car sale to take ...
22-06-2024
What did historical figures look like in the cinema and in ...
Film directors and screenwriters, shooting pictures about historical figures, often distort history in the direction of drama and ...
22-06-2024
Declassified photos of the Great Patriotic War
On June 22, 1941, on Sunday, Nazi Germany and its allies attacked the Soviet Union: 190 divisions, more than 4 thousand tanks, 47 ...
22-06-2024
Unconquered: The story of a Japanese partisan who fought for ...
Neither time nor political changes will break the spirit of a real fighter. A soldier who continued to wage guerrilla warfare in ...
21-06-2024
What Muslims were forbidden to do with concubines
Islam allows a man to have several wives. Previously, it was also possible to have concubines, which could only be slaves bought at ...
21-06-2024
Life with an outstretched hand: how they begged in tsarist Russia
Popular wisdom says that you should not renounce prison and the purse. If everything is obvious in the first case, then you can ...
21-06-2024
Born in a shirt: 10 amazing rescue cases that are hard to believe
There is such an expression "to be born in a shirt". This is usually said about a person who manages to avoid difficulties and even ...
21-06-2024
20 stories of the appearance of scars in Russian and foreign ...
Every scar has its own story. The marks may remind of childhood adventures, as well as riots or sad events of adult life, but they ...
21-06-2024
What was Iraq like before the war and sanctions
Iraq has been living in a state of almost incessant conflict and under international sanctions since 1980, when the war in ...
21-06-2024
The black pearl of the Russian ballet that charmed Hitchcock ...
The outstanding Soviet ballerina Tamara Tumanova was a man of peace. Even the place of her birth is interpreted differently in ...
20-06-2024
Not only the kitchen, children and the church: the whole ...
Cinema and literature have formed for us a certain image of a medieval city-dark, dirty, filled with suspicious personalities and ...
20-06-2024
20 Nostalgic Posts That Are Bound To Hit ’90s Kids Right In ...
The first Bondi blue iMac, Sillybandz, and trading Pokémon cards. Feeling nostalgic yet? These three things have one ...
20-06-2024
As one failed advertising campaign led to the collapse of the ...
Sometimes one wrong move can completely destroy acquired over the years. Prime example — once a successful company Hoover, which ...
20-06-2024
What was the real fate of the bride from Vasily Pukarev's ...
The traditional Academic exhibition held in 1863 in St. Petersburg, has become unlike others. It could even be called a sensation, ...
19-06-2024
Megaliths of Puma Punku — the riddle of the "Tetris of ...
Everyone knows about the Egyptian pyramids, Easter Island figures and Stonehenge. These structures have been striking the ...
19-06-2024
Was the country called Honduras, or Where did such a strange ...
The expression "The wrong country was called Honduras" is familiar to everyone. It is used when they want to emphasize ...
19-06-2024
20 photos proving that people were much more stylish in the past
No matter what times you consider "good old", many of you honor the past. And these photos show people who appreciated style, taste ...
19-06-2024
5 dishes that hated Soviet children
In the Soviet kitchen was such popular recipes that many adults still remember with a shudder.
19-06-2024
40 archive photos that may change your view of the past
If any science has benefited the most from the invention of photography, it is history. After all, it is photos that allow us to ...
18-06-2024
11 Timeless Treasures From The ‘90s That People Wish Were ...
I was born in 1994, so I'm technically a '90s kid. I wasn't into Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or wearing flannel shirts – I was simply too ...
18-06-2024
15 interesting facts that will make you unprintable wonder ...
There are things in the world that no one thinks about. But when a person comes across such facts, he usually freezes in amazement. ...
18-06-2024
27 portraits of the era thaw
Today we decided to remember how they lived and looked the Soviet era thaw — those happy ten years that occurred in the lives of ...
18-06-2024
Deadly striptease in Auschwitz
The legend of this Jewish ballerina was made not by dancing, but by murder. When she, a former star, was ordered to undress in ...
17-06-2024
25 of the most amazing archaeological finds in history
Archaeology may not be the most breathtaking profession, but it certainly has its own exciting moments. Of course, it's not every ...
17-06-2024
Can you guess what it is: 23 the mysterious object from the past
We offer to your attention a selection of the very strange things from the past, the purpose of which today will ...