History
26-04-2024
What did the 5 stages of intoxication look like 155 years ago
This series of photos perfectly illustrates how alcohol turns a respectable person into a staggering wreck, spewing a bad smell, ...
26-04-2024
20 forgotten TV series from the 90s, which was shown on STS ...
The STS TV channel started broadcasting on 1 December 1996. At the time, he was really entertaining, cozy translating foreign ...
26-04-2024
As residents of the Italian town many centuries shared bread ...
In the Italian town Venzone in the province of Udine people have long lived side by side with the mummies. Drank tea with them, had ...
26-04-2024
Scientists have named the oldest name, and it is still in use
Have you ever wondered what is the oldest name on the planet? No, we don't mean Adam and Eve, which the Bible mentions. We are ...
26-04-2024
"Emancipation of the servants": how did the master's servants ...
The beginning of the XX century is a very vague time. The lower classes, as Comrade Lenin later wrote, could no longer, while the ...
26-04-2024
Giacomo Casanova: 3 myths about the hero-lover, in which we ...
Name Giovanni Giacomo Casanova in the world associated with a fatal seducer of women. What Italian writer, philosopher and ...
25-04-2024
How women lived in Eastern harems, or what is not told in ...
At the word "harem" most people come up with colorful pictures-an abundance of seductive half-dressed women, gurgling water ...
25-04-2024
Bettie Page - sex symbol of the 50s - and her followers
On April 22, 1923, Bettie Page was born in Nashville, who became a sex symbol throughout the country in the middle of the century. ...
25-04-2024
Retro Mix: Sex, Drugs and Disco in New York Nightclubs in the ...
It seems to the current generation that their fathers and mothers, grandparents behaved strictly and decently half a century ago. ...
25-04-2024
The secrets of life and diet of the Templars, which made them ...
In the Late middle Ages, when the life expectancy of ordinary people ranged from 25 to 40 years, the Templars often overcame age ...
24-04-2024
How our ancestors fought insomnia
If you think that sleep disorders are a problem of a modern person, then you are deeply mistaken. Insomnia has tormented people at ...
24-04-2024
The story of the dwarf Geoffrey Hudson-knight, duelist and ...
History has known many cases when dwarfs were close to persons of royal blood. But there is only one known case in which a dwarf ...
24-04-2024
What did the Russians grow in the garden before the ...
Indeed, everyone is used to a certain set of gardeners: potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, onions, peppers and all sorts of greens. ...
24-04-2024
The plague of overweight: a LIFE story about weight loss ...
There was in the world, in the United States of the late 1940s, years nurse. And her name was Dorothy Bradley. Poor Dorothy weighed ...
24-04-2024
Why 3 a.m. was considered the most dangerous time by our ...
Modern people are sure that all devilry begins exactly at midnight and this time is considered the most mystical and dangerous. But ...
24-04-2024
Forget what you were taught in school: facts that have ceased ...
Everything changes over time. And even those facts that you previously considered reinforced concrete may change after some time. ...
24-04-2024
Harem of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire: 8 facts you didn't ...
In our view, the sultan's harem is a paradise where the languid wives and concubines of the lord in beautiful gardens, among ...
24-04-2024
Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers
Not so long ago we had a post about color photographs of Italy in 1938 (see the link below). An endless series of banners, ...
23-04-2024
Looked like mom Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana and other ...
Watch a selection of rare archival footage of the XX century stars posing with their moms. Looked like her Marilyn Monroe, ...
23-04-2024
Like a champion, Robert Gutyra fled with his family behind ...
It was very difficult to leave the countries of the socialist camp at the height of the Cold War. Almost always, escaping to the ...
23-04-2024
Breast augmentation 100 years ago. What was it like?
What do we women have to endure in the name of fashion? What sacrifices we are not forced to make to look beautiful, modern and ...
23-04-2024
Pedophilia, harems, torture and executions: wild ...
Among all the misfortunes that the Russian people have faced in their history, serfdom can be considered one of the most severe. An ...
23-04-2024
The wedding night: how it was in Russia
The first wedding night in Russia was arranged in a special way and had a lot of differences from the similar tradition of other ...
22-04-2024
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 ...
22-04-2024
Bringing History To Life With Colors: My 10 Colorized Pics
In a world often seen through the lens of black and white, there's something magical about adding a splash of color to old photographs.
22-04-2024
Portraits of pain: striking photographs of patients from ...
The ages are suffering from various diseases. With the progress of society evolving and medicine, but health problems continue to ...