History
17-05-2025
Clothes from your parents' wardrobe that are back in ...
It’s hard to imagine that today’s teenagers would want to wear things that their moms and dads loved at their age. ...
17-05-2025
Why aluminum once cost twice as much as gold
There were times when only the most profligate rich could afford an aluminum spoon or fork. This is not surprising, because in 1852 ...
17-05-2025
VR helmet from the 60s: Walter Pichler's futuristic concepts
These futuristic prototypes are a series of works created in the 60s by the artist Walter Pichler, which explore the intersection ...
16-05-2025
Photos and secret love letters of Frida Kahlo
The artist, known for her exotic beauty, painted fascinating paintings in which her own personality was imprinted. Frida Kahlo's ...
16-05-2025
In prison of the 19th century there was a Ladder Cubitt, the ...
Can't explain the dislike for sports? Maybe in past lives you have experienced the torture of fitness! In the late 19th century in ...
16-05-2025
20 German erotic postcards from the early 20th century
You should not think that at the beginning of the 20th century people were chaste and not interested in carnal pleasures. Even ...
16-05-2025
20 vintage photos of brides in national wedding dresses
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of past eras with a selection of old photos of brides in national wedding dresses. These unique ...
15-05-2025
Cooler than in the movies: how sending a boy to a poor ...
The story of an American young man that happened to him 18 years ago is like a real fairy tale or a love melodrama. With the only ...
15-05-2025
For a long memory. Who else, besides Lenin, was preserved for ...
On January 27, 1924, Lenin's coffin was placed in a wooden mausoleum built in a matter of days on Red Square. The decision not ...
15-05-2025
Dr. Knoche and his “mummy factory” in the jungles of ...
Mad scientists do not leave the walls of the university. The path to madness begins later and is different for everyone. Dr. ...
15-05-2025
How did the song "Murka": the real story of Marusya Klimova
«Murka» rightfully is among the most popular Russian songs of the 20th century. She was considered almost an anthem of ...
14-05-2025
Cross. Pray. Have fun
A selection of retro-shots from the 20th century, which made clear that the love of God does not exclude love of entertainment. The ...
14-05-2025
The Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s in ...
Propaganda posters from the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966 & #8212; 1976 clearly show how at that time the country ...
14-05-2025
"Peaky Blinders", "Razors" of Glasgow and bloodletters from ...
The Victorian era was not only the time of Sherlock and steam engines. One of the fruits of industrialization and urbanization was ...
14-05-2025
10 women who went down in history as the most scandalous persons
At all times, a woman could lead, violating the unwritten "code of rules of proper ladies". Not all ladies had the courage to go ...
14-05-2025
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 ...
14-05-2025
20 so absurd historical facts that they seem untrue
Surely many of you have heard something so incredible and illogical that, except for nonsense, it could not be called anything ...
14-05-2025
An old vase from my grandmother's closet was estimated at 7 ...
Everyone knows that old Chinese vases are very expensive things for which collectors are willing to pay millions. Unfortunately, ...
14-05-2025
Why do people in old paintings seem ugly to us
Many people pay attention to the fact that old portraits, most often, depict not too attractive people. Most often this is ...
13-05-2025
The Subtle East and the fashionable West: an American's photo ...
Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran was completely different from what it is today. Women dressed in Western fashion, freely ...
13-05-2025
The era of human zoos
Since ancient times, sanctioned the slave trade was engaged in by people of different nationalities and religions. Most of the ...
13-05-2025
Giving youth: what teenagers from different countries looked ...
People have always seen in the younger generation something different, fundamentally different from the generations of their ...
13-05-2025
"Hell on wheels": stunning photos of the New York subway of ...
In 1979, 250 serious crimes per week were registered in the New York subway. There were six murders in the first two months of that ...
13-05-2025
How to swim in the XVIII and XIX centuries and at the same ...
Some clarity came only after studying Wikipedia: A bathing machine (in Russia and Austria-Hungary was known as a bathing van) - a ...
13-05-2025
Face distorted in the throes of agony: images before and ...
The eruption of the volcano Montagne Pelee in 1902 was the worst volcanic disaster of the twentieth century. In less than a minute, ...
13-05-2025
Ricky Neave Murder: How a Mother, After Serving in Prison, ...
Some crimes can be solved right away, while others require long and painstaking work by investigators and experts. And there is a ...