History

Features of the primitive sex, or Who slept with whom in the stone age

13-04-2024

Features of the primitive sex, or Who slept with whom in the ...

In terms of history, monogamous marriage is a relatively new. In it, the necessity arose in connection with the development of ...

12 Common Items That Are So Widely Misused You Might Not Even Know Their Original Purpose

13-04-2024

12 Common Items That Are So Widely Misused You Might Not Even ...

Did you know that frisbees were originally just pie containers? Or that Play-Doh was intended to be a wallpaper cleaner? Sometimes, ...

The most absurd taxes in the world

13-04-2024

The most absurd taxes in the world

Did you know that the famous Latin phrase "money does not smell", pronounced by the Roman Emperor Vespasian, has a direct ...

It's hard to believe, but these 5 people with anomalies really existed!

13-04-2024

It's hard to believe, but these 5 people with anomalies ...

From time to time, nature plays a cruel joke on us and "special" people are born. They are often called freaks, but this does not ...

Why do the military salute by putting their hand to their head

13-04-2024

Why do the military salute by putting their hand to their head

The military jokingly say: "They don't put their hand to an empty head." They mean that military honor should be given only if ...

What is good for a Russian... Sketches of foreigners who visited Russia in the middle of the XIX century

13-04-2024

What is good for a Russian... Sketches of foreigners who ...

Among the historical sources from which scientists draw knowledge about Russia of the past centuries, there are notes of foreigners ...

An intimate portrait of Queen Victoria, what an immodest canvas of the mid-19th century looked like

13-04-2024

An intimate portrait of Queen Victoria, what an immodest ...

The Victorian era was marked by the flourishing of the arts and gave us many beautiful works of painting, sculpture, literature and ...

8 interesting facts about clothes

13-04-2024

8 interesting facts about clothes

Did you know that the inventor of sewing machines also invented the zipper? Or that buttons were originally objects of decoration? ...

Classic "divorces" of the 90s, which people are still being led to

12-04-2024

Classic "divorces" of the 90s, which people are still being ...

Naive post-Soviet citizens were an excellent target for fraudsters in the 90s. However, modern Russians have not gone very far from ...

History of women's duels

12-04-2024

History of women's duels

Dueling is considered the prerogative of men, but this opinion is erroneous. Women, too, were not averse to fighting each other, ...

Amazing stories about how the world's masterpieces were bought for a song

12-04-2024

Amazing stories about how the world's masterpieces were ...

In this article you will find incredible stories about people who are incredibly lucky to buy priceless works of art for a mere ...

"The space is calling everyone! And call. How vechnyy Zov" (Yuri Gagarin)

11-04-2024

"The space is calling everyone! And call. How vechnyy Zov" ...

12 April 1961 booster "R‑7", created at the factory "Progress" in Kuibyshev (now Samara), launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into ...

22 archival photos that can convey the atmosphere of the past and plunge into the past

11-04-2024

22 archival photos that can convey the atmosphere of the past ...

Would you like to go back to the past for a while? If so, which period would you choose? It's clear that you can't tell right away, ...

Harsh students of the Middle Ages: how was the largest student brawl in history

11-04-2024

Harsh students of the Middle Ages: how was the largest ...

In the student environment, a fight is quite a common phenomenon. What can I do, it's a young thing — they argued, fought and ...

"Atypical girls": representatives of the punk movement from the 70s to the 90s

11-04-2024

"Atypical girls": representatives of the punk movement from ...

These rare photos, published recently in Sam Nee's book "Atypical Girls: Styles and Sounds of the Transatlantic Indie Revolution" ...

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

11-04-2024

18 rare historical photos that make you think about the past

Some old photos show such rare phenomena that you can look at them for hours. And behind each such frame from the past are the ...

How to entertain yourself if you find yourself in the Middle Ages: 9 ways of cultural recreation

11-04-2024

How to entertain yourself if you find yourself in the Middle ...

The life of the average medieval European was short, dangerous and not rich. However, in those days people also had their own small ...

The intriguing 50s: when women wore "bullets" on their chests

11-04-2024

The intriguing 50s: when women wore "bullets" on their chests

In the middle of the last century, bullet bras became fashionable among Western women, mainly American women. With the bones ...

Portraits of “troubled girls” - inhabitants of Bedlam

11-04-2024

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 ...

Joseph Pujol is the most famous fart in the world

10-04-2024

Joseph Pujol is the most famous fart in the world

Have you noticed that often people who are about to spoil the air, raise their index finger up, saying " Attention, something is ...

Fun from a century ago: Strange interactive Postcards with finger holes

10-04-2024

Fun from a century ago: Strange interactive Postcards with ...

In the first two decades of the XX century, against the background of technological progress, the development of photography, ...

Why the Catholic Church dislikes cats

09-04-2024

Why the Catholic Church dislikes cats

In the middle Ages cats suffered a great deal from Catholics. They were burned and tortured, thrown behind bars and into the fire, ...

To hell with etiquette! Queens who knew how to rock to the fullest

09-04-2024

To hell with etiquette! Queens who knew how to rock to the ...

It is considered that kings and queens are prim, reserved and a little boring. But the women we want to talk about below prove the ...

26 freaky historical facts from the series " Nichosi!»

09-04-2024

26 freaky historical facts from the series " Nichosi!»

There is a misconception that life used to be safer and calmer. Of course, this is just a misconception. Each historical period ...

As our grandmother coped without slow cookers and vacuum cleaning robots

09-04-2024

As our grandmother coped without slow cookers and vacuum ...

Modern women are lazy and spoiled. At least this sure most men… Every time my wife tells how very tired, some of them will ...

"Jugs of the dead" found in remote mountain forests of Laos

09-04-2024

"Jugs of the dead" found in remote mountain forests of Laos

The places of Southeast Asia, remote from civilization, hide many secrets and riddles that they are in no hurry to part with. In ...