History
31-10-2023
Decree after decree: how would you get rid of your property ...
Step by step, decree by decree — at first you have a measured life, an apartment, savings and other property, and after a few ...
31-10-2023
Peasant woman or noblewoman? What female names were ...
Have you noticed that some women's names are perceived as aristocratic, noble, while others do not evoke any emotions? Of ...
30-10-2023
Little-known facts about ancient Egyptian mummies that you ...
The culture of Ancient Egypt never ceases to inspire writers and screenwriters to new stories. Tom Cruise has already found himself ...
30-10-2023
12 Intentional And Accidental Pieces Of Art That People Have ...
If you’ve ever taken a stroll through an antique shop, you know that they’re full of unexpected treasures. You might find a ...
30-10-2023
Why do medieval drawings show snails fighting knights?
Medieval art sometimes amazes with its unusual images. On the pages of manuscripts of that time you can find a variety of monsters ...
30-10-2023
The life story of Frank Sheeran, nicknamed "The Irishman" — ...
Everyone knows what trade unions are and why these organizations exist. But few people know that not everywhere trade unions were ...
30-10-2023
Sunbathing, rose water, cabbage mask: beauty secrets of ...
In each epoch, different peoples had their own habits and customs, including those related to personal hygiene. Even before the ...
29-10-2023
How to undress in front of her husband: a 1937 guide that ...
It seems that modern women know 1000 and 1 ways to seduce men and do not need any guidance. Yes, it is possible that a modern woman ...
29-10-2023
Chekhov and Lika mizinova: an unusual story of unrequited ...
The most famous play by Anton Chekhov, no doubt, became "the Seagull". Many people know the plot of the story, but few people know ...
29-10-2023
"Rat trails" of the Vatican: how the Catholic Church saved ...
"Rat trails" – such an apt name was given by the US special services to the routes along which thousands of Nazis and fascists ...
29-10-2023
The battle for the wooden bucket. Who won the most stupid war ...
In 1325 between the Italian cities of Bologna and Modena, there was a battle, which killed thousands of people. The reason for the ...
29-10-2023
The phenomenon of the Russian hand-to-hand combat, or 70 wins ...
Even during the Napoleonic wars Russian hand to hand combat to induce the enemy of horror. But over time, the technique was ...
29-10-2023
"Dancing plague" of the middle Ages — a deadly epidemic, ...
Among the many different epidemics, vukasinovich the population of Europe for the last thousand years, "the dancing plague" can be ...
28-10-2023
How a Parisian morgue became a popular attraction among ...
Nowadays, residents of large cities have access to a lot of entertainment. Discos, clubs, cinemas, museums, exhibitions, cafes and ...
28-10-2023
The story of "Princess Manuella" — the only daughter of ...
History knows many examples when the most notorious scoundrels were exemplary caring fathers who doted on their offspring. A good ...
28-10-2023
The last secret of the Great Alexander: where did two ...
By the age of 30, Alexander, the son of King Philip of Macedon, had become the ruler of a vast empire from Greece to India. Even ...
28-10-2023
14 photographs behind which lies the history of the century
Iconic photographs, better than any history textbook, can tell about the most important things in our past, be it a historical ...
27-10-2023
Vivid pictures of everyday life in Thailand in the 1970s
Thailand has now become for many both a place for a beach holiday, and a country where you can taste delicious dishes, and a place ...
27-10-2023
Why did the prototype of the "great Gatsby" kill his wife, ...
It so happened that the American lawyers of the 20s of the last century, who defended gangsters in the courts, themselves did not ...
27-10-2023
Looked like the first ever remote control for the TV
When people only dreamed of the remote control. Now that we've switched the channels on the TV with a plastic thing that is ...
27-10-2023
How the inhabitants of Pompeii died
Pompeii, an ancient Roman city near Naples, was buried under a layer of volcanic ash as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius on ...
27-10-2023
22 ancient versions of modern devices that are not easy to ...
Objects that people now use on a daily basis often have a long history. When they appeared, they looked completely different from ...
27-10-2023
Reincarnation exists? Twins of celebrities from the past
The belief that people live on land, some lives seem quite reasonable when you look at these pictures. Recently at the University ...
27-10-2023
Abandoned tunnel under Naples, which became a crypt for cars
One hundred and fifty meters from the large Piazza del Plebiscito in the center of Naples, there is a door to a passage that ...
27-10-2023
7 fuu-facts about the smelliest men in the world
These seven great men did not wash and smelled like a two-week sock in which they kept herring, but this did not prevent them from ...
27-10-2023
Cocaine Bear, or the Story of How an American Policeman ...
On September 11, 1985, a resident of the town of Knoxville, Tennessee, found on the path leading to his house the body of an ...