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06.04.24
The scariest church in the world
06-04-2024
Maxim Dmitriev: photos of Tsarist Russia
We all know and love the photos of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. Color frames of tsarist Russia are a unique asset. But there is another ...
06-04-2024
History textbook Marc Ribot
"People often ask me what are my photos I think is best. My answer: those that I will make tomorrow." Mark Ribot (Marc Riboud) was ...
06-04-2024
How to get people to smoke? Cigarette advertising in the ...
At the beginning of the 20th century there was a real explosion in the field of tobacco advertising. Large companies such as Camel, ...
05-04-2024
Hirosimites – amazing artifacts created by a nuclear explosion
The nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a terrible tragedy of all mankind. The consequences of a ...
05-04-2024
34 amazing example coloring old archival photos
From a rare photo of Mark TWAIN to the incredible photos of the Normandy landings from a height of bird flight — we invite you to ...
05-04-2024
"Whipping Boy" — why it once sounded proud
The expression "whipping boy" always sounds dismissive. There is nothing strange in this, because that's what they call someone who ...
05-04-2024
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev on vacation and not only
It's no secret that for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, women, hunting, hockey and cars were the outlets. Brezhnev became the first Soviet ...
05-04-2024
How wedding rings were worn in different eras in different ...
An engagement ring is a symbol of marriage in most countries of the world. Many believe that the tradition of exchanging rings ...
05-04-2024
10 inventions that appeared by pure chance
On May 14, 1878, the trademark "Vaseline"was patented. The well-known cosmetic and therapeutic agent was invented and patented by ...
05-04-2024
The most iconic historical footage is now in color
Black-and-white images give the false impression that the events depicted on them took place hundreds of years earlier than they ...
04-04-2024
How people waited for mobile phones: 18 photos from the past
Before Motorola introduced the first portable phone in 1973, ordinary people also thought that the phone should be more convenient, ...
04-04-2024
Royal Gypsies: ten of the most evil women of history
We habitually attributed to the women modesty, absolutely forgetting about their personal needs. Society really made (and makes) ...
04-04-2024
10 historic "first times" that changed the world
Do you often think about what it would be like without photos, magazines, or ATMs? For most people, these things are so familiar ...
04-04-2024
The Queen of debauchery: The 5 sexiest women in history
If you sometimes think that some women in our time have become too immoral, then you definitely think so. Because the mores of the ...
04-04-2024
How the legendary red sole appeared on Louboutin shoes
The red sole of Christian Louboutin's shoes is perhaps the most striking example of how extraordinary it is possible to declare ...
04-04-2024
The tragic life and death of the Pygmy Ota Beng, a living ...
He was the last of his tribe, all of whose members were killed by Belgian soldiers. Despite the fact that slavery in the United ...
04-04-2024
About this amazing past!
It is always interesting to observe the amazing past of humanity, though not for very long. Collected in this edition, silent ...
04-04-2024
Unknown Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky from the personal archive
Brilliant Soviet Director Andrei Tarkovsky, ordinary person. In his work, many-sided and deep, there was a place for photos. Today, ...
03-04-2024
"Black Avengers": the gang that kept the whole of Moscow at bay
Saban (as the leader of the Black Avengers gang called himself) hated policemen and rich people. He blamed the former for his years ...
03-04-2024
When reality is much worse than the film: the story of an ...
The story of a woman who drifted across the Pacific Ocean for 41 days on the wreckage of a yacht and survived against all odds ...
03-04-2024
About freaks and people: indecent pictures of Diana Arbus
Why did a successful girl from a rich Jewish family of the Nemerovs photograph the poor and the foolish? She showed American ...
02-04-2024
The story of Nikolai Kobelkov, or How a Russian without arms ...
These days, the whole world admires the courage and vitality of speaker and motivator Nick Vujicic, but few people know that the ...
02-04-2024
Children of the 90s: the artist displays in his works the ...
Those whose childhood fell on the dashing nineties, I remember well the first video games to magazines. Exciting shooting and ...
02-04-2024
The miracle of hostile technology: the Messerschmitt tricycle
For the automotive industry has generated a lot of unusual cars in its century-and-a-half history. Some of them were luxurious and ...
02-04-2024
10 types of the most effective cold weapons that you should ...
This type of cold weapon, like brass knuckles, is known to everyone. But humanity has also invented other neognestrelnoe weapons, ...
02-04-2024
Amazing historical photos that you may not have seen yet
Amazing and dramatic photos that will make you experience a variety of emotions. Even if you have seen some of these pictures, they ...