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![Cora Pearl - a courtesan who was "served" naked on a platter to guests](/img/2023/cora-pearl-a-courtesan-who/cora-pearl-a-courtesan-who-540x310.jpg "Cora Pearl - a courtesan who was "served" naked on a platter to guests")
20-11-2023
How to drink properly in a British pub: a guide for American ...
How is it right to drink with the British? What can and cannot be said to a drunken Scotsman in a kilt? How to spend time in a ...
20-11-2023
Rare shots of Soviet celebrities during the feast
It is now domestic celebrities who celebrate their holidays with luxury and pomp, renting expensive restaurants or going on exotic ...
20-11-2023
20 Scenes From Famous Movies That Have Become Iconic, As ...
The drama, the set, the acting, the dialogue, there are certain film moments that end up sticking in our brains. Whether it is a ...
20-11-2023
The death of Prince Svyatoslav: who really killed Alexander ...
According to the "tale of bygone years", the Kiev Prince Svyatoslav the conqueror died on the Dnieper rapids. Killed him the ...
19-11-2023
The story of the brave Katherine Sloterback, who killed 140 ...
We know many stories when a person, forced to protect himself and his loved ones, did incredible things. But among all of them, ...
19-11-2023
The story of Isaac and Rose, Slave children from New Orleans, ...
The boy and the girl looked at the camera. They were old enough to understand their task: to stand still, hands clasped, and direct ...
19-11-2023
Faces of British crime of the XIX century
What did the petty criminals of the XIX century look like? We offer you a look at the faces of English prisoners held in a penal ...
19-11-2023
Fear and disgust in Sumer, or What representatives of ancient ...
Almost all the holidays that exist today, in one way or another, are associated with ancient agricultural cults. Settlement and ...
19-11-2023
27 creepy photos of an abandoned farmstead
Deep in the woods of Maryland stands a house full of secrets. This late-19th-century farmstead is a kind of time capsule of a ...
19-11-2023
Smile and courage — flight attendants who performed a feat ...
Very often, the work of flight attendants is too romanticized: distant countries, meeting people, good mood, perfect uniform. But ...
19-11-2023
“It Didn’t Fit In With Artistic Rules”: Terrifying ...
It takes years and sometimes centuries to unveil some of the world’s biggest historical figures and understand our most precious ...
18-11-2023
The success story of Ida Rosenthal - the woman who gave the ...
The story of Ida Rosenthal is a clear example of the fact that anyone can succeed, regardless of who he was born. Thanks to the ...
18-11-2023
Tsarist fun: how fun the last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II
Contemporaries say that Nicholas II was a very versatile man, active and with a lot of Hobbies. Despite his busy schedule, he found ...
18-11-2023
Always in the topic: why the image of the playful rabbit from ...
Sexy, cool and playful & # 8212; the image of a rabbit from Playboy has become one of the most unshakable over the past decades. ...
18-11-2023
Mistress of Africa Al-Kahina: The witch the Arabs feared
In the Islamic world, men reign supreme and their authority is unshakable. Therefore, the Arab chronicles, which describe the ...
18-11-2023
The ball of metamorphoses, or Why Russian empresses dressed ...
Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was distinguished by her cheerful disposition and stormy imagination. The daughter of Peter I adored ...
18-11-2023
Dancing till you drop at dance marathons of the 1920s and 30s
During the Great Depression, a crazy fad called "dance marathons" arose in the States. They lasted for hours, weeks, even months. ...
17-11-2023
Cannibals-the Cossacks in the steppes of Ukraine: horror of ...
In 1927, the historian Mykola Gorban found in the Kharkiv historical archives of the documents of the investigation conducted in ...
17-11-2023
What is "Waterloo teeth", or As the battle of 1815 influenced ...
Dental clinic in our days — it's not cheap, but available for each institution. Today, dentists use modern equipment and ...
17-11-2023
500-year-old mummy of a monk can give the answer to why we ...
Mummies can't talk, but research remains provide answers to many questions about the development of human civilization. This monk ...
17-11-2023
Why is the devil depicted with horns and hooves
Devils are traditionally depicted with horns, hooves and tails. Sometimes a pig's piglet and wings are added, as well as thick fur ...
17-11-2023
Who were the mysterious maenads - women who dedicated their ...
These women were called bacchantes by the Romans, and maenads by the Greeks. In ancient times, when women were in the shadow of ...
17-11-2023
Fountain "Spitting Dictators" is a mysterious art object with ...
Fountains are hydraulic structures that carry a decorative load. We can confidently say that fountain design is a special kind of ...
16-11-2023
The Leo Frank case: why Atlanta residents lynched a Jewish ...
Late in the evening of August 17, 1915, hundreds of Atlanta residents filled the streets of the small town of Milledgeville. They ...
16-11-2023
"Black Cossacks" Ukrainian Cossacks who did not take prisoners
"Black Cossacks" was the most fearsome fighters of the Civil war in Ukraine. They were remembered not only for his military ...
16-11-2023
Retro beauties from the covers of a Yugoslav computer magazine
A selection of covers from the Yugoslav magazine Računari from the 1980s and 1990s. The word Računari is translated from Bosnian ...