History
23.09.23
That Russia borrowed from the Tatars
21-09-2023
Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America
The Miss America beauty pageant may seem like an absolute anachronism, but once it really mattered a lot. In 1921, Margaret Gorman ...
21-09-2023
Portraits of children of the XIX century, sentenced to hard ...
In the color portraits of the 1870s, colored by the colorization expert Tom Marshall, children look at the lens too severely and ...
21-09-2023
The tragic story of a noble bandit Salvatore Giuliano
Salvatore Giuliano is one of the national heroes of Sicily. A young man he went to the mountains and declared war on the rich, who ...
20-09-2023
Bright and tragic life of Princess Margaret, the sister of ...
Among the Royal family always had a lot of interesting and unusual personalities. And one of the examples is the younger sister of ...
20-09-2023
"Worn to the holes": sights that are mercilessly destroyed ...
The custom of rubbing statues and monuments is known all over the world. At the same time, no one can say when it was born and what ...
20-09-2023
Viking sexual traditions: why an old partner is better than a ...
It is difficult to dispute the fact that the Viking Age left a serious mark on the history of mankind. Without the Scandinavian ...
20-09-2023
Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past
Illustrator Sveta Dorosheva collects vintage postcards. Among the exhibits of her collection there are both ordinary and rare, and ...
20-09-2023
The fate of Meinhard Schwarzenegger - Arnie's older ...
Everyone knows Arnold Schwarzenegger. Bodybuilder, actor, governor of California - his biography has become an example of how iron ...
19-09-2023
Vin Mariani — wine with cocaine, which was drunk by Popes, ...
Cocaine is considered an absolute evil these days, but it wasn't always like that. In the 19th century, the narcotic substance ...
19-09-2023
As known, the Israeli thief became a national hero
In the 90s Moti Ashkenazi was one of the most famous and dexterous thieves in all of Israel. Usually the guy hunted on the beaches ...
19-09-2023
Very strange things which excited the ancient Egyptians
What do we know about Ancient Egypt? Cleopatra, papyrus, pyramids, mummies... and dildos? In General, the representatives of an ...
19-09-2023
The evil fate of Leonie Dantes - the daughter of ...
Many people know that Georges Dantes, who mortally wounded Pushkin in a duel, was married to Catherine, the sister of the poet’s ...
18-09-2023
The story of the leader Udre Udre — the most voracious ...
Such a terrible phenomenon as cannibalism was widespread throughout the planet in ancient times. Pagan religions contributed to ...
18-09-2023
29 most expensive and crazy PR moves in history
Advertising surrounds us from all sides. And if anyone can put up ads on the entrances or order a video on television, then only ...
18-09-2023
The ruined childhood of Eva Ionesco, a girl who became her ...
Parents who force their children to participate in beauty contests are simply "sweethearts" compared to Irina Ionesco, a French ...
18-09-2023
From dudes to hard workers: photos of Soviet youth of the 60s
What do you associate the 60s with? Maybe it was the youth of your parents or their parents, or maybe something else? This ...
18-09-2023
The dissolute youth of the West of the 1920s
The roaring 1920s in the West became a decade of parties, money and an extravagant lifestyle. This period represented the American ...
18-09-2023
How Londoners used masks to escape the Great Smog in the 1950s
In December 1952, the British capital was covered with a thick layer of smog-the result of cold weather, windlessness and sulfurous ...
17-09-2023
Who made the Croatian island of Baljenac look like a fingerprint
Everyone who sees the island of Balenac from above has a question - what happened to this piece of land. This is not surprising, ...
17-09-2023
Color photographs of the First World War that were taken as ...
More than a hundred years have passed since the end of the First World War. Many generations have passed since then. When you look ...
17-09-2023
How the Belarusian Jew Meyer Lansky became the criminal king ...
Meyer Lansky is one of the most successful gangsters in the history of the United States. He was born into a poor Jewish family, ...
17-09-2023
Oops, that's a priest! Why are big buttocks so popular among ...
Wide hips have always been a sign of femininity and sexuality. Kim Kardashian blew up Instagram with a hot "belfi" in a swimsuit in ...
16-09-2023
"Churchill's Egg": why the British prime minister had to fly ...
There are a lot of funny stories about Winston Churchill. Recall at least the story of how the most famous portrait of the British ...
16-09-2023
10 Underrated Movies Based on Actual Real-Life Spies
These are the underrated films that delve into the clandestine lives of real-life spies, and unsung heroes who operated in the ...
16-09-2023
One day in the life of Ancient Greece
Children run naked in physical education, a woman watches the world through the window of a gynecologist, a man — at a hetaera or ...
15-09-2023
Young American women on the beaches of Texas in the 80s
Minimum clothing and maximum drive: the main motto of American youth 80 years. Girls loved to experiment with his looks, spending a ...