History
12-10-2023
Why in the Middle Ages the church called the fork a ...
An ordinary dining fork has an impressive history with many interesting facts. It seems to us that these devices have always been ...
12-10-2023
Blokhovka, pomander and other mysterious accessories of the past
From time immemorial, people have strived to be more beautiful... The ancient Egyptians were the first to apply makeup, the ancient ...
11-10-2023
Russia of the XIX century through the eyes of a Scottish ...
Edinburgh photographer named William Carrick was the first ethnographer who managed to capture the everyday life of the Russian ...
11-10-2023
The smile of absolute evil
It would seem that what could be scary in such a simple and sincere expression of emotion as a smile? However, when you see a smile ...
11-10-2023
Bride auction, or why in Babylon even ugly girls were in ...
In many ancient cultures, women were treated as commodities and their opinions were completely ignored. In Babylon, they even held ...
11-10-2023
6 legendary defeats on the battlefield, the cause of which ...
War exposes the best and worst in people. Some become heroes, others suffer a shameful fiasco. On the first write books, make ...
11-10-2023
Rare photos of North Korea at the beginning of the 20th century
North Korea today is a mysterious country, a reserve of totalitarianism closed to the whole world. Since the formation of this ...
11-10-2023
Mussolini was a dictator both in life and in bed and ...
On April 28, 1945, Italian partisans shot the leader of the Italian fascists, Benito Mussolini. The same fate befell his mistress, ...
11-10-2023
Frank and daring Spain in the illustrations of the 1900s
On a sultry summer day, Maite Zubiarre, a professor of Spanish at the University of California, Los Angeles, went into an antique ...
11-10-2023
25 interesting archive photos that take us back in time
Analyzing archival photos, it's as if you feel the very breath of time. History holds many mysteries, and the past always predicts ...
11-10-2023
Life in the "zoo": the tragic fate of the five-year-olds Dion
The five sisters who were born into the family of a poor farmer on May 28, 1934, became a real gold mine, earning a lot of money ...
11-10-2023
What is meaning, or Unromantic Robinson Crusoe, which ...
Since time immemorial many peoples banishment was a popular punishment. People — a social being and the deprivation of ...
10-10-2023
Jennifer Coolidge, the legendary "Stifler's mom" from ...
Many will agree that Stifler's mom — the highlight of the film "American pie". Actress Jennifer Coolidge has become incredibly ...
10-10-2023
Aztec crystal skulls: how exposed one of the largest frauds ...
Aztec crystal skull and scary at the same time beautiful long been the object of desire collectors of ancient artifacts and entire ...
09-10-2023
"You can't love on the phone": the dramatic fate of comedian ...
Lucille Ball was an iconic figure in the film industry and still remains on the list of the best comedy actresses of the twentieth ...
09-10-2023
The Captain from Kepenik: how the shoemaker robbed the Town ...
When Kaiser Wilhelm learned the story of the captain from Kepenik, he laughed until tears came. He personally pardoned a man who ...
09-10-2023
“I only ate the living”: the history of the island of ...
The Nazi tragedy is one of the most terrible events in Soviet history. Six thousand people were deported to Siberia and landed on ...
09-10-2023
"Aretino Poses– - medieval Kama Sutra from Europe, which ...
The genre of erotic art has been known since ancient times and it existed in different parts of the world. We are well aware of the ...
09-10-2023
Harbin: an amazing history of a Chinese city with Russian roots
The capital of the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, Harbin, is located at a considerable distance from the border with Russia. ...
08-10-2023
Ancient action movie: The incredible retreat of 10 thousand ...
One of the most interesting documents left by the ancient Greeks is a work called "The Anabasis of Cyrus", translated from the ...
08-10-2023
9 of the most brutal psychological experiments in history
What happens if you tell a boy half his life that he is a girl? And if you torture a person with electric shock or force the ...
08-10-2023
"Commander-in-Chief Stalin" and other typos that have gone ...
From pre-revolutionary times to the present day, an annoying typo in the press was sometimes paid with a career, or even with life. ...
08-10-2023
From personal archives – touching family photos of actors ...
This issue is a post of warm lamp nostalgia, a selection of photos from the family archives of many beloved Soviet actors and other ...
08-10-2023
A complete list of the wives of Ivan the terrible. Do not ...
Tsar Ivan the terrible created for himself the image of the monk on the throne, who is forced not to pray, and to rule. His ...
08-10-2023
Great and undefiled: 6 historical figures who died virgins
Most people today can not imagine their life without sex, and this is quite normal. But the fact that these geniuses left the world ...
08-10-2023
This crazy, vibrant London in black and white photographs ...
The 30s were a time of great change for the British capital: the city finally switched from gas lighting to electric lighting, ...