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31.03.25
How our ancestors fought insomnia
31-03-2025
Burned, but saved the children: about the unprecedented feat ...
The name of Alexander p. Mamkin has gone down in history thanks to his exploits during the great Patriotic war. One of them is the ...
31-03-2025
How people imagined the future 120 years ago
Everyone sometimes imagines what the life of humanity will look like in many years. Many of us were waiting for October 21, 2015 to ...
31-03-2025
The incredible story of how the Queen of Britain married the ...
In the 19th century, a small mistake in translation led to the fact that the Nigerian king for many years began to consider the ...
30-03-2025
10 facts about the Eiffel tower
On March 31, 1889, 132 years ago in Paris, a solemn opening of the Eiffel tower. On this day the engineer Gustave Eiffel hoisted on ...
30-03-2025
Two against all: a touching love story of a Nazi and a Jewish ...
On March 30, 1943, 46-year-old Willy Schultz shot another German soldier and voluntarily surrendered to Soviet partisans. And all ...
30-03-2025
30 incredible portraits of Maori women with traditional tattoos
By the end of the XIX century the art of Maori tattoo has almost disappeared due to the spread in New Zealand bounty hunting, but ...
29-03-2025
How and why did they attempt to kill the mummy of the leader ...
Political leaders are often targeted for assassination attempts. The recognized leader in their number was and remains Fidel ...
29-03-2025
Hiking, hunting, fun games: rare photo captures the everyday ...
People on these unique family photo enjoy life, not knowing that just a few years, their idyll comes to a tragic end. This loving ...
29-03-2025
Old woman Shapoklyak: the tragedy of a real person, hidden ...
Each of us from childhood is well familiar with the old woman Shapoklyak & #8212; a dirty old woman with a large rat Lariska on a ...
29-03-2025
The story of the dwarf Geoffrey Hudson-knight, duelist and ...
History has known many cases when dwarfs were close to persons of royal blood. But there is only one known case in which a dwarf ...
29-03-2025
Beauty with risk for life: how ladies of the past ruined his ...
Women always knew that beauty requires sacrifice, and were ready to go. In the best case, these victims were tired from walking at ...
29-03-2025
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 ...
29-03-2025
The story of Rosalie Gicanda, a queen who remained with her ...
Rosalie Gicanda is a name that is still spoken with warmth and respect in Rwanda. This woman, who became the queen of a small ...
28-03-2025
11 Greatest Pranks of All Time That Fooled Many People
For those who think that pulling an April Fool's joke on a friend in their dorm is something impressive, there is clearly ...
28-03-2025
Sydney's criminal underground of the 1920s and 1940s - rare ...
The "creative tandem" of a mother and daughter who sold cocaine and a gang of thieves who disguised themselves as women and stole ...
28-03-2025
The shame of Japan: "comfort stations" in the war, where ...
In brothels for Japanese soldiers during the war there were, according to various sources, from 200 to 400 thousand women ...
28-03-2025
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 ...
28-03-2025
Portraits beyond the edge
Photographer Marc Garanger took these photos in Algeria during the War of Independence (1954-62). He happened to work there as a ...
28-03-2025
What the Moscow Metro looked like in 1935
The first line of the Moscow Metro opened on May 15, 1935 and ran from Sokolniki station to Park Kultury station. Since then, 14 ...
28-03-2025
The story of conjoined twins, the Blazek sisters, one of whom ...
Can Siamese twins give birth to children? Modern doctors say that everything depends on the specific case - everything depends on ...
28-03-2025
Like today: 11 color photographs of the Russian Empire and ...
Initially these photographs were black-and-white, but the colorist Olga Shirnina restored the correct colors invisible to the ...
28-03-2025
5 examples of cruel retribution for the defeat of the ...
It happens that the loss of a national team leads to the most tragic consequences not only for fans, but also for the athletes ...
28-03-2025
What's inside the Kaaba, the Muslim holy site
The most sacred place for all Muslims in the world is the Kaaba. It is a cubic structure located in the courtyard of the Masjid ...
27-03-2025
Like a champion, Robert Gutyra fled with his family behind ...
It was very difficult to leave the countries of the socialist camp at the height of the Cold War. Almost always, escaping to the ...
27-03-2025
Fairs, matchmakers, marriage announcements: how to look for ...
Sad statistics show that in our era of the Internet in Russia is full of lonely people. Many sites and applications offer to get ...
27-03-2025
Nangavalli has come true: the terrible events that have been ...
In 1969, during a speech on TV, the American Joseph Delius predicted that at the end of the year there will be a plane crash. He ...