History
20.10.23
Did everyone wake up on Monday?
17-10-2023
Marshal Zhukov's favorite women
Zhukov's private life is ambiguous. It was stormy, confused, happy, and tragic. Despite the black-and-white Soviet principles and ...
17-10-2023
How the huge armies of the past relieved themselves
In the history of mankind it is hardly possible to find a year when there was not a war somewhere. The armies of the past were huge ...
17-10-2023
Color photographs of women of the Russian Empire at the ...
This amazing collection of color portraits shows women of different classes from different regions of imperialist Russia at the ...
17-10-2023
15 inventions of the Victorian era that shock with their ...
The Victorian era began in 1837 with the arrival of Queen Victoria and lasted until 1901. During this period, people managed to ...
16-10-2023
16 of the oldest miraculously preserved everyday items
Today, humanity has a lot of new technologies at its disposal, which are invented almost every day and which quickly come into use ...
16-10-2023
Love and the bomb: how, because of problems in the family, a ...
On August 17, 1988, a Tu-154B plane with 176 people on board took off from Kiev to Kuibyshev (now Samara). Among them was ...
16-10-2023
18 inventions of the past that the world was simply not ready for
"If at first the idea does not seem absurd, it is hopeless," said Albert Einstein. However, it is worth recognizing that sometimes ...
16-10-2023
Chateau d'If - the legendary prison of French kings
Many of us have read Alexandre Dumas’s novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” or watched the wonderful Soviet film “The Prisoner ...
15-10-2023
When her husband the Emperor, but a pervert: as the ...
The daughter of Kyiv Prince Vsevolod Eupraxia was married at the age of 12. Kiev chronicler her laconic mother, became a wife, ...
15-10-2023
Vintage photos of the Gold Rush Legacy
The bitter irony of the California gold rush is that the first person to find gold in this region, James W. Marshall, died alone ...
15-10-2023
Who cries on the famous painting by Edvard Munch
Great creative heritage of the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch painting "the Scream" is the most famous. She not only often ...
15-10-2023
"The dove" for the elite: prostitution at the highest level ...
Heavy scent of expensive perfume mixed with cigarette smoke filled the air. In the corridors with a luxurious interior, heard the ...
15-10-2023
A hundred years at lunch: how women washed, cleaned and ...
We are constantly dealing with continuous progress, changes and additions in the field of technology — in particular, these are ...
15-10-2023
Beauty requires sacrifice and here are 30 vintage photos that ...
For the sake of beauty, women are ready for anything! But if now they pierce their ears and do hair removal for her, then in the ...
15-10-2023
What did household appliances of the last century look like
Since a person began to wear clothes, he faced the question of how to wash them. The need for washing clothes has existed at all ...
15-10-2023
Russian models from aristocratic families who conquered Paris
It is well known that our models are highly valued all over the world. Strange as it may sound, but the fashion for Russian girls ...
15-10-2023
Like a wild people in Germany were accustomed to the vaunted ...
It is known that the Germans — this is the most prone to the order and discipline nation on the planet. But, on the other ...
15-10-2023
Breakfast in bed: how was the first class of Air France ...
Recently in a network there was a rare series of photographs taken for advertising campaigns of the airline Air France in 1957. It ...
14-10-2023
"The Russian maiden scorns me": how the Viking Harald the ...
King of Norway Harald III the Severe went down in history as a brave soldier, a successful politician and the king of the Vikings, ...
14-10-2023
How did the Pavlova cake appear and how is it connected with ...
Pavlova cake can be bought today in many confectionery stores. But few people know the history of this popular dessert. It was ...
14-10-2023
Arab poetesses of Kaina: slaves who conquered the great Caliphs
In addition to decent women and prostitutes, for many centuries there was a third, special kind of ladies-courtesans. In Europe, ...
14-10-2023
The secret of the "Bloody Quran" — a book written in the ...
It is well known how intolerant Muslims are to blasphemy. Everything that casts a shadow on Islam in one way or another is usually ...
13-10-2023
A fairy tale in reality: 7 places where you can see mermaids ...
For centuries, mermaids have captured the imagination of both sailors and ordinary people, fascinated by the idea of the existence ...
13-10-2023
How peasants refused to drink, or Teetotal Riots in Russia in ...
Textbooks are silent about this war, although it was a real war, with gun volleys, dead and prisoners, with winners and losers, ...
13-10-2023
Take a cigar and take a quick photo: the secret of one of the ...
"The portrait of Winston Churchill changed my life. I understood that this was an important photo, but I could not even dream that ...
13-10-2023
Our story, complete madness — 30 photos that prove it
History is full of mysteries, and most of them are quite strange. Generations are changing, and the events of the recent past seem ...