History
06-05-2025
How the British protected loved ones from body snatchers
Students of the Faculty of Medicine in the UK of the XVIII century found themselves in a difficult situation. They used to use the ...
06-05-2025
The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan
Since childhood, we have associated the Wild West with endless prairies, along which brave cowboys jump, shooting back at ...
06-05-2025
Gay Bomb and Other Most Absurd Military Projects
As paradoxical as it may sound, war is the engine of progress. The military industry accumulates the best minds and the most ...
06-05-2025
As Agatha Christie was schooled spree husband
Agata Mallowan, better known under the pseudonym of Agatha Christie, had a refined mind and a vivid imagination, thanks to which ...
06-05-2025
Robert Fisher: The killer who blew up his family was never caught
Many people believe that the lists of the most wanted criminals include only terrorists or heads of drug cartels. In fact, this is ...
05-05-2025
Radium girls: the story of the "living dead" that changed the ...
In the 30s of the last century, the world was shocked by the tragedy that occurred at one of the factories in the United States. At ...
05-05-2025
The Paris glitch, or How all the pendulum clocks stopped in ...
There are sometimes phenomena in the world that science cannot explain. One of them is the so—called "Paris Clock failure". On ...
05-05-2025
The tragic story of the life of silacci of Agatha Enviable is ...
History is replete with athletes that contemporaries were impressed by the strength of their muscles and perform incredible stunts. ...
05-05-2025
1858: portraits of the last surviving veterans of the ...
The Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was Napoleon Bonaparte's last defeat. But even after his death in 1821, the surviving soldiers of ...
05-05-2025
What was the fate of the world's first supermodel
She was called "Miss Manhattan" and the American Venus. In the 1910s, Audrey Manson was the most sought-after model in the world. ...
05-05-2025
The Eerie Secret of the Lawson Family Photograph
At first glance, this old photo seems like the most ordinary one. But that's only if you don't know its history. The photo ...
05-05-2025
The exhumation told how the son of Ivan the Terrible could ...
Since school, everyone knows that Tsar John IV the Terrible killed his son John. He did this with the pointed end of the staff and ...
05-05-2025
What ancient Greek sculptures actually looked like
Nothing in our world is eternal. The same applies to unique works of art and architectural masterpieces, which lose their original ...
05-05-2025
"Larechnaya" Moscow, which we lost
Yes, stalls and tents-it was convenient. You get out of the subway, and you have a choice of hundreds of products: socks, thread, ...
05-05-2025
Toma Sankara is the only honest president in history who was ...
Once the African state of Burkina Faso was called Upper Volta and was an overseas territory of France. In the late 50s, Paris gave ...
05-05-2025
How armored crusader knights escaped the heat in the Middle East
The Crusades continued from the 11th to the 15th century. The First Crusade began on August 15, 1096, and resulted in the capture ...
04-05-2025
How popular Soviet cartoons were created
Anyway, the best cartoons of Soviet childhood can be safely called the creativity of the Soyuzmultfilm studio. Over the years of ...
04-05-2025
10 mysterious stories about stockings, the sexiest weapon of ...
Stockings are one of the most beloved weapons of seduction by women. But this seemingly simple thing. it has a lot of puzzles. For ...
04-05-2025
Girlfriend, kitty, knowledge of foreign languages: in the ...
To get into the field of view of the medieval Inquisition could anyone. It was enough to be educated, beautiful, poor, Jew or to ...
04-05-2025
The 5 most useless items in the history to perform a spacewalk
What strange things the astronauts sometimes take with them into orbit, written many articles. They all boil down to "utility", or ...
04-05-2025
Romantic photos of couples from 1960‑ies
1960‑ies, which brought us the beatniks and hippies, hipsters and opponents of the war, and the fashion was different the same ...
04-05-2025
Legendary Outlaw Charles Peace: Violinist, Murderer, and ...
Contradictory qualities can coexist in one person. A brilliant doctor can be a ruthless killer, and a talented musician can be a ...
03-05-2025
Why did King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia kidnap tall guys
Each person has his own quirks and the higher his status, the more opportunities there are to realize these quirks. If some guys ...
03-05-2025
The best pictures of Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
On May 4, 1947, the Hells Angels motorcycle gang was formed in California. There have been many scandals around this legendary club ...
03-05-2025
Only without kissing: Japanese sex culture before the 20th ...
Japan is a country of contradictions and contrasts, liberated and chaste. Having lived for about 250 years under the Iron Curtain, ...
03-05-2025
Pioneers, which models did the history of automakers begin with
In every person's life, the first, uncertain step is always also the most important. With cars exactly the same parsley. Without ...