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07.06.25
Geisha without kimono
07-06-2025
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 ...
07-06-2025
How a simple Mexican woman, Nestor Salgado, declared war on ...
Modern Mexico is a battleground between the drug mafia and citizens tired of the lawlessness of bandits. Corruption at all levels ...
06-06-2025
Rare color photos of pre-war Germany
Long before Germany was destroyed the First and Second world wars, it was a country of peaceful beauty, Gothic splendour and ...
06-06-2025
The most frightening, unusual and sinister uniform in history
The uniform serves different purposes. Most often, it is used by the military or members of an organization to create an impression ...
06-06-2025
The 100 km long Maya road is a miracle of ancient engineering
Of all the ancient civilizations, the culture of the Maya Indians remains the most interesting and mysterious. Much of the heritage ...
06-06-2025
The world history of contraception: cobwebs, elephant dung ...
In the Middle Ages, premature female death was most often associated with complications during childbirth. Newborns died even more ...
05-06-2025
Nazi Germany in color photos by Hugo Jaeger, Hitler's ...
These color photographs were taken by Hugo Jäger, Adolf Hitler's former personal photographer. He traveled with the future Nazi ...
05-06-2025
Why do men wear watches on their left hand
Traditionally, men wear watches on their left hand. They say that the rules of etiquette require this, but no one can explain what ...
05-06-2025
5 facts from the life of Gogol, which are not accepted to ...
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol is not just a classic, but the first major Russian prose writer, who was considered his teacher by many ...
05-06-2025
What was the real fate of the bride from Vasily Pukarev's ...
The traditional Academic exhibition held in 1863 in St. Petersburg, has become unlike others. It could even be called a sensation, ...
04-06-2025
Ada Blackjack and her amazing story of solo survival in the ...
In 1923, American society was shocked by the story of 23-year-old Eskimo girl Ada Blackjack. She was the only woman on the polar ...
04-06-2025
10 great ideas that were sold for a penny
Brilliant ideas very often do not seem to be something exceptional at the moment of their appearance. History knows cases when ...
04-06-2025
The worst sex cruise in history: how syphilis got to Europe ...
Syphilis is a terrifying blow to the happy hedonism that Europe was famous for before the era of Puritanism. Who would have thought ...
04-06-2025
Erwin Olaf's Royal Blood Project
The famous Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has been engaged in commercial photography since 1996. His client list includes many ...
04-06-2025
Sex, the Sultan and the scandal: as the joy of ruined Ibrahim ...
Usually historical articles are terribly boring and uninteresting, but not if they are written by Georgy Zotov. We promise that the ...
04-06-2025
London's Crystal Palace is a fantastic structure that has ...
Unfortunately, the time allotted to human creations, from the point of view of history, is small. Even the pyramids at Giza are ...
04-06-2025
Muscovites in 1956 in pictures by LIFE photographer Lisa Larsen
LIFE magazine once again shares its archives, now we will see everyday life in Moscow, which was captured by one of Nikita ...
04-06-2025
The sun of our ancestors: photos resort of Crimea 70s
To turn the Crimea in the all-Union health resort instructed the great (as they said) Lenin. Alternatives to admit, was not much, ...
03-06-2025
Portraits of “troubled girls” - inhabitants of Bedlam
The eerie vintage photographs show women who turned out to be patients at the notorious Bethlem Royal Hospital. This establishment ...
03-06-2025
Dance over the Abyss: The Story of Edith Eger, the Little ...
There are many terrible pages in the history of the 20th century, but the Holocaust is one of the most painful. Millions of lives ...
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03-06-2025
The story of Ella Harper, who became famous as the ...
Just a century ago, a person born with physical disabilities in a poor family had only one way to arrange his life. He got a job in ...
03-06-2025
Hairstyles of women of Madagascar as a separate art form
For Malagasy people, residents of the Republic of Madagascar, hairstyle occupies an important place and is a special art. Each type ...
03-06-2025
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 ...
03-06-2025
"Operation Finale": how the Jews had kidnapped Adolf ...
In the last days of the war, many Nazi criminals looking for ways to escape, rightly fearing for their lives. Many of them were ...
03-06-2025
Tsar-bath: what secrets are hidden by a giant bowl in an ...
There is no need to tell what a tsar cannon or tsar bell is. Everyone knows about these gigantic, but completely useless ...
03-06-2025
Copper bull — the most terrible device for torture in the ...
The copper bull is one of the most sophisticated and terrible devices for torture, created once by the Greeks at the request of the ...