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10-08-2023
Palace secrets: 5 princesses who were deeply unhappy in their ...
They are the envy of millions of girls around the world and dream of the same fate. However, not all princesses have a life like in ...
10-08-2023
Ships and officers of the Russian Empire Navy in 1893
By the end of the XVIII century, the Russian fleet was the third largest in the world (the first and second places were taken by ...
09-08-2023
Copper riot - what did the first inflation in Russian history ...
August 4, 1662 is the date when the "Copper Riot" broke out in Moscow. In this article, we will dive into the historical ...
09-08-2023
What is the secret of Victorian photographs?
In the era of the reign of Queen Victoria in Great Britain, with the advent of such a miracle as photography, quite strange ...
09-08-2023
Where is the "Kemska volost" about which the Swedish ...
Leonid Gaidai's comedy "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" has been supplying us with catch phrases for half a century. But ...
09-08-2023
13 vintage photos in which people are haunted by the shadow ...
For the first time, the shadow of an unknown man in a permanent hat appeared in photos of the 1920s, almost imperceptibly gliding ...
09-08-2023
War dance of the NZ Maori battalion in the desert
In this rare photo from the archives of the British soldiers, māori from the new Zealand army performing in front of the British ...
09-08-2023
Underwater cemetery of Japan: pictures of submerged equipment ...
Japanese military planes, trains, tanks, ships and other equipment are now covered with corals and lie on the bottom of the Pacific ...
09-08-2023
10 historical films in which costume designers coped with the ...
History lovers often make claims to costume designers for shooting historical paintings: either the fabric is not from that era, or ...
09-08-2023
5 Surprising Facts About The Big Bang Theory
In the early 20th century, astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason discovered that galaxies were gradually moving away from the ...
08-08-2023
What the waters of Niagara hide: how the famous waterfall was ...
In 1969, the seething water flow that falls over the American waterfall (with two brothers — "Horseshoe" and "Veil" — it forms ...
08-08-2023
"Ladder of the dead" in the Austrian concentration camp ...
The Mauthausen concentration camp was located 20 kilometers east of Linz, the administrative center of Upper Austria. It was the ...
08-08-2023
Where childhood goes: unknown covers of Soviet children's books
"Childhood, childhood, where have you gone?" — Yura Shatunov endlessly repeats in his song. And what do we remember from ...
08-08-2023
Timothy Dexter's Story of Getting Rich Through Stupidity
Many of us are well aware of cases where someone invested in a win-win business and went bust. But very few people will remember at ...
08-08-2023
The last peaceful summer of pre-war Paris, 1939
These photos are 80 years old this year. They were taken by LIFE magazine photographer William Vandiver during his business trip to ...
07-08-2023
"My dear man": how much did people cost under serfdom and how ...
When we say "my dear person" about someone today, we do not mean the monetary equivalent, but our warm attitude and nothing more. ...
07-08-2023
Why in the old days sailors categorically refused to take ...
For centuries, the profession of a navigator was considered one of the most dangerous. And where there is risk, there is always a ...
07-08-2023
1939: the last public execution in France by guillotine
Born in Germany in 1908, Eugene Weidman started stealing from a young age and, even as an adult, did not give up his criminal ...
07-08-2023
Florentine football: little for the war, but cruel for the game
Florence is not only the world capital of art, birthplace of the great Dante and the Italian literary language. This is a city ...
07-08-2023
What did the nobility do all day in the Middle Ages if they ...
Many people think that in the Middle Ages, the aristocrats did nothing but go hunting and go on Crusades. Perhaps some of the noble ...
07-08-2023
The story of Ruth Handler, creator of the Barbie doll and ...
The Barbie doll is, without exaggeration, the most famous toy in the world. She is admired by millions of children and adults, she ...
07-08-2023
Norwegian Museum Lofotr: a journey into the world of Vikings
There is a museum in the north of Norway, which is not boring, but really interesting. The main object of the Lofotr museum complex ...
07-08-2023
New York of the 70s
Chilean photographer Camilo Jose Vergara photographed the depressive streets of New York in the 70s and its inhabitants in a ...
06-08-2023
Why Jacqueline Kennedy was considered beautiful
Jacqueline Kennedy is one of those women about whom no one will say – she is ordinary. Many believe that Jacqueline was a ...
06-08-2023
From the royal table: culinary preferences of Russian emperors
What did the Russian emperors like to eat? In this issue, you will learn about the gastronomic preferences of the heads of the ...
06-08-2023
Brighter than a thousand suns: 20 scary shots in memory of ...
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, using nuclear weapons for the first ...