24-05-2025
"Fence art" of the ancients: archaeologists regularly find ...
Many believe that offensive inscriptions on walls and fences are a sad sign of our era associated with the decline of morals. But ...
23-05-2025
Anna and the King - how a British feminist lived in the harem ...
Anna Leonwens is one of the most interesting ladies of the Victorian era. An adventurer, suffragette and traveler, Anna spent her ...
23-05-2025
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" ...
23-05-2025
Dangerous prank Francois Rabelais, or How to get to Paris for ...
François Rabelais was considered one of the most educated people of the 16th century. It is difficult to name a case in which this ...
23-05-2025
20 stories of the appearance of scars in Russian and foreign ...
Every scar has its own story. The marks may remind of childhood adventures, as well as riots or sad events of adult life, but they ...
22-05-2025
Victorian era burlesque dancers
Burlesque is not only Dita Von Teese in a huge martini glass. Burlesque dancers already existed in the mid-19th century, although ...
22-05-2025
The scientist caught Shakespeare in incompetence in matters ...
Everyone who is familiar with the work of William Shakespeare has noticed how often the great playwright kills his heroes. In ...
22-05-2025
Caspian Fort Boyar - the place where Victory was forged, and ...
In the open sea, just 2.5 km from the city of Kaspiysk, there is an abandoned bastion, which locals call "Dagestani Fort ...
22-05-2025
Romantic story of 16-year-old drowned from Paris
Dummy for practicing skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation sign of tens of thousands medical students and rescuers. However, few ...
22-05-2025
Unfriend and ban: how could one "remove it" before there were ...
In social networks it is very easy to make friends: want — friended by sick — raspandita with him. A slang expression for "hi", ...
22-05-2025
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? ...
22-05-2025
The Noble Robber Bulla Felix: The History of an Ancient Roman ...
When people think of the mafia, they immediately think of the Italian crime clans that skillfully balance brutality and popular ...
22-05-2025
How the Russian “dog boy” Fedya Evtikhiev became a circus ...
Just 100 years ago, “freak circuses” and “human zoos” were very popular in the United States. They looked for people with ...
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21-05-2025
The History of the Expression "China's Last ...
Everyone knows the expression “China's last warning”. It is usually used when they want to warn someone. It contains a ...
21-05-2025
Why people in Spain run from bulls: the history of the San ...
Every year in the middle of summer, videos and photos from the San Fermin Festival, which takes place in the Spanish city of ...
21-05-2025
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 ...
21-05-2025
The girls who set the tone for 1950s pinup fashion
At Christie's, the auction was held, which included many samples of pin-up culture of the 50s. Pinup was the gloss of the time and ...
21-05-2025
20 historical facts about the ill-fated novels and intrigues ...
Love stories related to royalty always attract the attention of the public – both in the old days and now. Maybe that's why we ...
21-05-2025
Why did Pushkin call his muse Anna Kern a harlot
Russian aristocrat Anna Petrovna Kern was one of the most striking beauties of the Pushkin era. It is to her that the poem "I ...
20-05-2025
27 portraits of the era thaw
Today we decided to remember how they lived and looked the Soviet era thaw — those happy ten years that occurred in the lives of ...
20-05-2025
The priest who became a legend: the story of the famous ...
In the 80s poster with the image of the girl hung in the room of every teenager, and publishing, which published most of these ...
20-05-2025
How coffee was used before it became a drink. You will be ...
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks on the planet. Many people cannot imagine starting the day without a cup of aromatic ...
20-05-2025
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 ...
20-05-2025
Retro photos from the colorful Taiwan of the late 1970s
Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China and the official capital of Taiwan Province within the PRC. It is the political, ...
20-05-2025
The story of a cursed card table with 17 lives and broken ...
Stories about cursed objects frighten and fascinate with their inexplicability. If you believe them, then death is brought by ...
19-05-2025
The king and the Diva: a chance encounter of two stars
Celebrities never be on your own. Just one fleeting meeting United Sophia Loren and Elvis Presley and, of course, there was the ...