History
07-06-2024
The French castle of Quesnel shortly before the devastating fire
Professional photographer Romain Thiery specializes in finding and shooting pianos in abandoned buildings in Europe. During his ...
07-06-2024
Geisha without kimono
The unidentified Japanese photographer who took these pictures in the 1900s must have preferred to admire geishas, free from the ...
07-06-2024
The story of Philip Ashton, who chose life on a desert island ...
Today, even children know that the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk became the prototype of the protagonist of Daniel Defoe's ...
07-06-2024
Ruthless men's fashion of the 70s
The fashion of each era is unique, and dictated by different trends and events. Fashion of the 70s, for example, was aimed at ...
07-06-2024
Bright color, indecent cut, daring cage and unthinkable ...
Sometimes it seems that the 70s happened on another planet. Looking at these pictures showing the men's fashion of those years, you ...
07-06-2024
Giving youth: what teenagers from different countries looked ...
People have always seen in the younger generation something different, fundamentally different from the generations of their ...
06-06-2024
London's Crystal Palace is a fantastic structure that has ...
Unfortunately, the time allotted to human creations, from the point of view of history, is small. Even the pyramids at Giza are ...
06-06-2024
What did the very first gadgets look like, without which we ...
Today's generation of children can no longer imagine a smartphone not with a touch screen, but with buttons. And the first phone in ...
06-06-2024
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 ...
05-06-2024
One against all: why car mechanic Marvin Himeyer is called ...
Marvin Himeyer — a simple American hard worker, faced with the arbitrariness of a large corporation and city authorities. When it ...
05-06-2024
"I loved him so much that I would have climbed Everest with a ...
What can a woman do for love? The story of the mad passion of Joyce McKinney, who hunted for her lover for many years, proves that ...
05-06-2024
How and why women's fist fights were held in Russia
Everyone knows about the popularity of fist fights in Russia. They were arranged even before the adoption of Christianity, on the ...
05-06-2024
The story of Andy - a gray goose in children's sneakers
Our smaller brothers are often in trouble. It is much more difficult for them to get help than for people. For this to happen, you ...
05-06-2024
Scientists have reached a dead end, investigating the mummy ...
The small church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is located in a village with the cozy name of Cherry (now part of Vinnitsa). In ...
05-06-2024
Fake attractions that gather crowds of tourists ready to ...
If you dream of real travel and immersion in the history and atmosphere of the place where you are going, you should avoid these ...
05-06-2024
"Hitler's secret weapon": disgusting chocolate that even ...
This unpresentable chocolate bar is part of the American army rations of the Second World War. We tell you why you could break your ...
04-06-2024
22 atmospheric summer photos from the good old 20th century
They say that earlier the water was wetter, and the water was greener. Well, the world is more predictable (although this is ...
04-06-2024
The medieval murderers, or what is actually the tale about ...
Folklore has always been giperplazirovannom a reflection of the reality in which they lived carriers. The story of the Wolf and ...
04-06-2024
Sex, the Sultan and the scandal: as the joy of ruined Ibrahim ...
Usually historical articles are terribly boring and uninteresting, but not if they are written by Georgy Zotov. We promise that the ...
04-06-2024
Then and now: these photos of famous sights will surprise many
Man-made structures that are hundreds of years old often have an interesting fate in terms of going through many stages of ...
03-06-2024
Vintage pictures of Japan in color and 3D
These animated GIF images were created using stereoscopic photographs taken in Japan between 1895 and 1910. The author of the ...
03-06-2024
Right of the first night: how it worked and why is was taken ...
Right of first wedding night, which we today consider barbaric and humiliating custom, were previously perceived not so clear. The ...
03-06-2024
Crazy in Sokolniki: tragedy, which appeared in the USSR ...
The first half of the 70‑ies of the last Soviet schoolchildren under the sign of gum. Imported, of course, because domestic had ...
03-06-2024
14 Interesting And Rare Historical Pictures That Might Teach ...
Many of us love taking photos of all the little joys in life—the goofiness of a pet, the not-so-good-looking cookies you baked ...
03-06-2024
The Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s in ...
Propaganda posters from the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966 & #8212; 1976 clearly show how at that time the country ...
03-06-2024
Medieval maniac Christman Genipperteinga, who killed 964 people
There have always been maniacs. And they always did their dark deeds in a similar way. Some killed simply for the love of art, ...