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![Leon Trotsky's bodyguard Anton Blisnyak: the fate of the "red terminator"](/img/2025/leon-trotsky39s-bodyguard/leon-trotsky39s-bodyguard-540x310.jpg "Leon Trotsky's bodyguard Anton Blisnyak: the fate of the "red terminator"")
25-07-2025
Albert Pierpoint - the Last Executioner of the Empire
It is said that Albert Pierpoint executed 433 men and 17 women, including 200 Nazi fiends who could hardly atone for their sins in ...
24-07-2025
Photos of the real Bonnie and Clyde, taken in 1933
In the spring of 1933, the police caught the Barrow gang in a rented apartment in the city of Joplin. After a fierce shootout, the ...
24-07-2025
Where childhood goes: unknown covers of Soviet children's books
"Childhood, childhood, where have you gone?" — Yura Shatunov endlessly repeats in his song. And what do we remember from ...
23-07-2025
The tragic love story of Prince William and Hungarian model ...
There are many romantic stories in the history of the British royal family. But the love story of Prince William of Gloucester and ...
23-07-2025
Absinthe is a genius for mediocrity, but death is for a true ...
Absinthe, undoubtedly, can be called a professional drink of intellectuals, artists and poets. In the XIX century, it was believed ...
23-07-2025
"My dear man": how much did people cost under serfdom and how ...
When we say "my dear person" about someone today, we do not mean the monetary equivalent, but our warm attitude and nothing more. ...
23-07-2025
9 stages of porn development — from the Stone Age to the ...
The Internet opens up opportunities for a modern person to satisfy a variety of desires. We can buy a washing machine without ...
23-07-2025
How did the Arctic and Antarctic get their names?
Most schoolchildren can show on a map or globe where the Arctic and Antarctic are located. But even adults are unlikely to be able ...
23-07-2025
The heart of a crocodile, the hornet's sting and radiation: ...
Although it is said that the modern way of life and stress is terrible for male potency, the problems of this kind were known to ...
23-07-2025
The Amazing Story of Jean Baptiste Mouron, Who Served 100 ...
In 1776, a young man named Jean-Baptiste Mouron was arrested for a series of arsons in the village of Tarazonne near Marseille. At ...
23-07-2025
The Dignidad colony: how a pedophile Nazi organized a private ...
After the end of the Second World War, thousands of Nazis found salvation from justice in Latin America. Chile, with its government ...
23-07-2025
Children's window cages and 13 other interesting inventions ...
People are always trying to find a way to ease their daily chores or bring a little more luxury to life. Here are 14 bizarre ...
22-07-2025
Burial "in repnoe" or Why in Russia it was customary to bury ...
For residents of Russia turnips have always been valuable not only culture, but also a plant that has a sacred meaning. Part of it ...
22-07-2025
The comforts of medieval castles, or Why Retire to the cloakroom
The Middle Ages is a period of history when people did not care too much about comfort. It can be said that since antiquity, the ...
22-07-2025
The sex was the revolution: how did the sexual revolution in ...
1960-e years were a turning point for sexuality in the West. What later became known as the "sexual revolution" was initiated by ...
22-07-2025
Poena cullei or "execution in a bag": the most severe Roman ...
Burial alive, hanging, quartering, crucifixion… What kind of tortures were not invented by people to punish criminals and ...
22-07-2025
Rabbit brain pate and other tips for caring for children from ...
Nowadays, when there are such wonderful inventions as disposable diapers, all kinds of radios and baby monitors, rubber nipples, ...
22-07-2025
Torture and other terrible methods of treating mental disorders
Until the end of the XVIII century, people with mental illnesses were considered not sick, but possessed by the devil, or witches ...
22-07-2025
The most depraved scenes in the history of art
Do you think that pornography has appeared quite recently? And here it is not! The fantasy of our distant ancestors went far beyond ...
22-07-2025
The Golden age of enjoyment and pleasure: the history of ...
Belle Époque or the beautiful era called the period of European history between the last decade of the XIX century and 1914. Walk ...
!["Bloody Sunday" of Nizhny Tagil: how the plane crashed into the crowd on May 9, 1993](/img/2025/bloody-sunday-of-nizhny/bloody-sunday-of-nizhny-170x170.jpg ""Bloody Sunday" of Nizhny Tagil: how the plane crashed into the crowd on May 9, 1993")
22-07-2025
"Bloody Sunday" of Nizhny Tagil: how the plane ...
The Victory Day in 1993 for the inhabitants of Nizhny Tagil was overshadowed by a bloody tragedy. People came to watch an air show, ...
22-07-2025
What's Hiding Behind Aokigahara: The Suicide Forest in ...
According to the World Health Organization, about 800,000 people commit suicide every year in the world. Japan is among the top ...
21-07-2025
In nineteenth-century England, divorce was expensive. ...
Now just try to infringe on a woman's rights — feminists will break their horns in an instant. But in the old days things were ...
21-07-2025
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 ...
21-07-2025
The hatfields vs McCoys: how two American families gave ...
In the late nineteenth century on the border of the States of West Virginia and Kentucky between the two families of farmers there ...
21-07-2025
From the royal table: culinary preferences of Russian emperors
What did the Russian emperors like to eat? In this issue, you will learn about the gastronomic preferences of the heads of the ...