19-07-2025
Why Jacqueline Kennedy was considered beautiful
Jacqueline Kennedy is one of those women about whom no one will say – she is ordinary. Many believe that Jacqueline was a ...
19-07-2025
Mariana Breslauer and its avant-garde photography of the ...
These pictures, formed in the image self-confident "new woman" of the 1920-ies, which belonged to herself. Mariana Breslauer ...
19-07-2025
How was the accident at the race in Le Mans, the most ...
This accident that happened June 11, 1955 at the 24-hour race in Le Mans was neither before, nor, fortunately, after. The list of ...
18-07-2025
Tattoos on the face — a sacred tradition of Maori women
Maori women are traditionally tattooed on the chin in their teens. This drawing, called "moko kauae", is considered a visual ...
18-07-2025
Long before VR porn, there was this: stereo pictures of sexy ...
With the invention of stereoscopic photography, devices with erotic photos appeared, which existed until the end of the 1970s. ...
18-07-2025
The Acoustic Kitty project, or How the CIA trained a cat to ...
It's not just James Bond who can be a secret spy. We are talking about… a cat. Yes, yes, a simple cat! Trained and trained by ...
18-07-2025
12 fascinating films about knights and the middle Ages
It was a time noble and brave knights who served the ladies, the times of the Crusades and wizards of sword fights, jousting ...
17-07-2025
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 ...
17-07-2025
What is fragging and why were US Army officers afraid of it ...
The term "fragging" began to be used in the 1950s. But it was widely used only during the Vietnam War. Fragging was the deliberate ...
17-07-2025
Disneyland on its opening day in 1955
On July 17, 1955, Walt Disney's dream to make the amazing worlds created by his imagination finally come true - on this day the ...
17-07-2025
How former slaves founded the freest country in the world and ...
Liberia is a small and very poor country in West Africa. Nevertheless, she has a rather interesting, albeit sad story. She ...
17-07-2025
What does the expression "Filkin's letter" mean and what does ...
We tell you about the origin of the phraseology "filkin's letter": where did this phrase come from. The stable expression "Filkin's ...
17-07-2025
Start the time machine: 25 photos of grandparents who ...
Of course, none of you have seen your grandparents at a very young age. But, turning over the pages of the family album, we are ...
17-07-2025
Advertisement for the sale of children: the history of a ...
An old black and white photograph of a woman hiding her face and four children in the foreground would not have attracted any ...
16-07-2025
Incredible Dubai: Photos of the UAE before the discovery of oil
Today, Dubai is a huge metropolis with skyscrapers, which looks more futuristic than any other city on earth. But in 1833, when ...
16-07-2025
Why are the images of Ancient Egypt so primitive
The images left by the ancient Egyptians are well known to everyone from school history lessons. At the same time, many are ...
16-07-2025
13 vintage photos in which people are haunted by the shadow ...
For the first time, the shadow of an unknown man in a permanent hat appeared in photos of the 1920s, almost imperceptibly gliding ...
16-07-2025
Who and for what reason said the phrase "The main thing is ...
Everyone has probably heard that "the main thing is not victory, but participation." Participants of competitions and Olympiads, ...
16-07-2025
Unique fire mummies of Kabayan
Mummification — a relatively well-studied ancient rite of preservation of the bodies of the dead - is mainly associated with ...
16-07-2025
Memoirs of a Geisha
Geisha is an ancient and honorable profession in Japan. Geisha are not just girls for entertaining guests, they are traditions, ...
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16-07-2025
The "great stench" in London: how the environmental ...
In the 19th century, London became the universally recognized world center of science and technology. At the same time, the capital ...
16-07-2025
22 rare celebrity photos that will take you back to the crazy 90s
Take a trip back in time: travel back to the crazy 1990s with this amazing collection of rare celebrity photos. Remember the ...
16-07-2025
Norwegian Museum Lofotr: a journey into the world of Vikings
There is a museum in the north of Norway, which is not boring, but really interesting. The main object of the Lofotr museum complex ...
16-07-2025
Creepy Parisian clubs that were lit up before it became ...
Surely you have at least once turned the wrong way in an unfamiliar city and found yourself in an area with ominous architecture. ...
16-07-2025
"Ladder of the dead" in the Austrian concentration camp ...
The Mauthausen concentration camp was located 20 kilometers east of Linz, the administrative center of Upper Austria. It was the ...
15-07-2025
15 fashion trends of the 70s that left and promised not to return
The style of the 70s can be described as diverse and eclectic. If the 60s were the beginning of a worldwide youth revolt, then in ...