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23-05-2024
From Paleolithic Venus to the Kardashians: how the fashion ...
The canons of beauty are a very dynamic thing. And if at the dawn of civilization, the female breast was just a "functional" ...
23-05-2024
How during the Second World War in the USA they built a fake ...
In 1942, when the Japanese military forces occupied the islands located near Alaska, the strategically important production of ...
23-05-2024
Why did the French beat Americans in the center of Paris in 1944
What happened on July 17, 1944 in the heart of the French capital cannot be remembered without disgust. American and British ...
23-05-2024
How was the wedding night of the Cossacks
Despite the fact that the Cossacks have been considered part of the Russian people for centuries, their customs differed ...
22-05-2024
Dad — a glass of port wine: how and what Russian rock stars ...
The average person imagines rock musicians as party-goers who live on the principle of "Live fast, die young" - with daily alcohol, ...
22-05-2024
10 creepy photos and the stories behind them
An impartial technique captures real-life events with photographic accuracy. Some pictures immediately cause a storm of emotions ...
22-05-2024
The Hajj of Emperor Musa: how the richest man in the history ...
If you ask any person about what advanced civilizations in Africa he knows, then for sure they will tell you about ancient Egypt ...
22-05-2024
Guillotine, silhouette and other things named after real people
Have you ever wondered why things got such names as they have now? Why is "chair" exactly "chair", and not something else? ...
22-05-2024
VR helmet from the 60s: Walter Pichler's futuristic concepts
These futuristic prototypes are a series of works created in the 60s by the artist Walter Pichler, which explore the intersection ...
22-05-2024
Kristin Chubbuck — TV presenter who killed herself on the air
On July 15, 1974, an event occurred on the air of the WXLT-TV channel that the public remembered for a long time. The host of the ...
22-05-2024
Why aluminum once cost twice as much as gold
There were times when only the most profligate rich could afford an aluminum spoon or fork. This is not surprising, because in 1852 ...
22-05-2024
What was the world like half a century ago, in January 1970
See a selection of interesting and rare retro photos taken 50 years ago. Here you will find a lot of beautiful women, distant ...
22-05-2024
From Cola to beaver testicles: 9 of the strangest ...
It seems to us that the "magic pill" and condoms have always been there. We are used to being able to independently control ...
21-05-2024
Radium girls: the story of the "living dead" that changed the ...
In the 30s of the last century, the world was shocked by the tragedy that occurred at one of the factories in the United States. At ...
21-05-2024
Sex symbols of the 50s, or what the standard of female beauty ...
This period in the history of fashion and beauty is considered the most feminine. Excessive thinness was not in trend then. Full ...
21-05-2024
This is the Wild Middle Ages: the 5 most sinful popes in the ...
There is nothing more dangerous than a fool with power. There are dozens, if not hundreds of madcap monarchs left in history, whom ...
21-05-2024
The miracle in the desert: both in 30 km from the sea near ...
Lighthouses are strongly associated with the expanses of the sea. This is usually the case — a structure visible from afar is ...
21-05-2024
What people used before the invention of toilet paper
Our ancestors didn't know the word "comfort", however, they sought. Throughout history, humankind has improved my life and ...
20-05-2024
Spy Cat and the Moon Explosion: The secret plans of the Cold War
During the Cold War race, countries did not choose the means. The American and Soviet governments have launched some really strange ...
20-05-2024
The history of Yakut diamonds: how women geologists were ...
It seems that Russia has always been the leader in diamond mining, because there are very few countries in the world that could ...
20-05-2024
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio - the story of one short ...
Marilyn Mnro and Joe DiMaggio were husband and wife for a very short time. Their marriage lasted only 9 months, but this does not ...
20-05-2024
The story of a genocide: the Australian aborigines were ...
U.S. 70-ies of the last century, racial segregation have almost ceased to remind myself. Dark-skinned artists, actors and ...
20-05-2024
An old vase from my grandmother's closet was estimated at 7 ...
Everyone knows that old Chinese vases are very expensive things for which collectors are willing to pay millions. Unfortunately, ...
20-05-2024
The story of the knight Johann Schiltberger, who spent 30 ...
Being in captivity is an ordeal for any person. The fate of such prisoners in the Middle Ages was especially unbearable. No ...
20-05-2024
Spartans: how the most severe warriors of antiquity lived
Sparta was one of the strongest states of ancient Greece. The rest of the Greeks were amazed at the prowess of the Spartans and the ...
20-05-2024
Photos of Manhattan 1870-1900, when the island was a slum of ...
In the last decades of the XIX century, Lower Manhattan in New York could be safely called the capital of the slums. In those ...