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24-10-2023
Stormy intimate life of Generalissimo Suvorov - the winner on ...
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov is rightfully among the ten best commanders in history. Everyone knows him as a winner, a father to ...
24-10-2023
Why pirates are portrayed as one-eyed
The image of a pirate is very often complemented by a black eyepatch. This pattern is so common that sometimes it seems that all ...
24-10-2023
How unfaithful wives were punished in Rus'
The fate of peasant women in Rus' has never been simple. Husband violence was common in families. A husband could beat his wife ...
23-10-2023
Moments of the past: how did a young lady of 100 years ago
Concepts of beauty change and behaviour undergo significant changes, and over time from the past no trace remains. Only written ...
23-10-2023
12 Previously Unseen 20th-Century Celebrity Portraits Found ...
"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, be the testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human ...
23-10-2023
Braveheart: 7 women to whom we should be grateful for the ...
One of the main achievements of the XX century is the establishment of equality between people. Including gender equality. And, of ...
23-10-2023
30 unique views of old Paris
Paris is an amazing and magical city, with streets on both banks of the Seine. Its historical center has been developing for many ...
23-10-2023
About the life of Francesca Viola, a woman who survived ...
The Sicilian Mafia has always been considered the most brutal and "immortal" criminal group in the world. It is not surprising that ...
23-10-2023
A Midsummer night's dream... in the closet. Why in the Middle ...
Over the centuries, the concept of personal space was very abstract. Privacy for sleeping can afford very few. The poor lived in ...
23-10-2023
Then and now: 25 photos of comparisons, which will force us ...
The ability to look at familiar things from a new angle is priceless. Sometimes to truly understand the phenomenon, it is necessary ...
23-10-2023
Medieval ladies in arms: instructions for the protection of ...
Medieval feudal lords rarely sat at home. They went with the orders of the overlord, participated in tournaments, Crusades, wars ...
22-10-2023
How in different eras people protected the privacy of ...
Today, confidentiality of correspondence is one of the rights guaranteed to a person by law. Despite this, there are always plenty ...
22-10-2023
I Embarked On A Journey Through Former FSU Countries To ...
The art of photography has the power to capture the essence of time, freezing moments, and places for eternity. In my latest ...
22-10-2023
Mad Patty: why a girl from high society joined the terrorists
The rich heiress Patricia Hurst, brought up in the best traditions of high society, has entered the annals of forensic medical ...
22-10-2023
The last Rock revolution: rare photos of cult grunge bands of ...
The grunge gods rocked the music world in the early ' 90s, starting a new movement. It was an explosion that covered an entire ...
22-10-2023
How the "City of the Dead" appeared in the Dargava Gorge, ...
There are many mysterious places covered with legends on the world map. There are also truly mystical ones among them, where a ...
22-10-2023
Will a woman be able to bear and give birth to a Neanderthal
Neanderthals who disappeared from the face of the Earth about 30 thousand. years ago, they are considered the closest relatives of ...
22-10-2023
The Amazing story of Josephine Myrtle Corbin, a four—legged ...
Josephine Myrtle Corbin was incredibly popular during her lifetime, and after her death her grave had to be filled with concrete. ...
22-10-2023
Anna Pavlova and other beauties of Tsarist Russia in ...
This collection contains very different women: actresses and college girls, revolutionaries and aristocrats, ballerinas and ...
22-10-2023
Photos from the past that are worth seeing
The phrase "a picture instead of a thousand words" was coined by the American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. These ...
21-10-2023
Creepy ghost villages of Dagestan: photos and videos from drones
There are several abandoned ghost villages in the Republic of Dagestan-Gamsutl, Kahib and Koroda. The village of Gamsutl is located ...
21-10-2023
Ivan Rykov's Skopinsky Bank: the first pyramid in Russia, ...
Everyone knows how financial pyramids work these days. But few people know that this is not such a modern way of cheating. At the ...
21-10-2023
The order of Malta and the Vatican – the smallest state in ...
The famous state of Vatican city is not the only country located in the centre of Rome. Even in the Italian capital is the order of ...
21-10-2023
How nuclear weapons were tested in front of the public in ...
At 10 a.m. on October 22, 1964, a five-kiloton nuclear weapon was detonated in Lamar County, Mississippi. A year earlier, in ...
21-10-2023
A terrible diagnosis or a clever scam? 24 personalities of ...
Billy Milligan is one of the most famous people diagnosed with multiple personality. In his mind, 24 different people "lived" at ...
21-10-2023
The collection is simple and stunning photographs of the ...
The past has passed and will never return, but examining a bundle of old pictures, you can again feel an attack on paper and light ...