08-02-2024
Dahomey Amazons — the most feared women in history
Dahomey Amazons — a unique phenomenon in world history because it is the only documented female military division. This group of ...
08-02-2024
20 portraits of immigrants to America at the beginning of the ...
Augustus Sherman worked in these years, the chief official in the office of records at Ellis island in new York, who was for many ...
08-02-2024
The battle of Molodi in 1572: like Russia again was almost Tatar
From 29 July to 2 August 1572, near the village of Molodi modern Chekhov district of the Moscow region was the battle that decided ...
08-02-2024
Terrible game, or Why in the old days, children played in the ...
At all times children's games served as a preparation for adult life. Children are losing the familiar patterns of behaviour that ...
08-02-2024
These first pictures of cities around the world show how much ...
These days, the photographers travel the world in search of new perspectives of famous places of the planet. However, there was a ...
08-02-2024
As people in the last century imagined the future
In the mid-20th century, people were confident that in 50-70 years life will change: there will be a lot of amazing inventions, all ...
07-02-2024
1930-1953 years: the contests for the most beautiful women's ...
The first competition for the most beautiful ankles were registered in the first decade of the 20th century. Then they were part of ...
07-02-2024
Color photos of popular tourist destinations, taken more than ...
These lovely photos show looked like the main tourist places of the world at a time when colour photography was just starting to ...
07-02-2024
How medieval pranksters played tricks on people — ...
The word «prank» appeared in our lexicon in the Internet era. But the practical jokes on people themselves, which lead ...
07-02-2024
15 Incredible Facts about Rasputin, the mystic who destroyed ...
Who was he: a saint, a demon, or just a depraved charlatan? Today Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin would probably be called a psychic ...
07-02-2024
20 unique photos with greetings from the past
Photographs are a time machine on which you can go back several years or even centuries. And the older they get, the more valuable ...
07-02-2024
What did the world's most famous landmarks look like at the ...
Wolfgang Wilde, the creator and curator of the website Retronaut, has released a book that will change the perception of the past. ...
07-02-2024
"For our and your freedom": how many Russians fought for the ...
According to the Warsaw Historical Museum, 40,000 people took part in the 1944 uprising, of which 1% were not Poles. ...
07-02-2024
How to look like tulo, unique Chinese homes castles
Nationality Hakka who settled in the mountainous Fujian province in China, has created a unique architectural structure, "tulou" ...
07-02-2024
Bartender Day: Once Upon a Time in America
February 6 is considered to be International Bartender's Day - in fact, on this day the Catholic Church honors the memory of ...
06-02-2024
Pizza, matryoshka and 6 other famous things invented not ...
Quite often it happens that if people use something for a long time, they begin to consider it part of their culture. For example, ...
06-02-2024
The early 90s through the eyes of Bertin van Manen
Before releasing her first photo book, A Hundred Summers A Hundred Winters, photographer Bertien van Manen traveled throughout the ...
06-02-2024
The Very Peculiar Victorian Fairy Art Of Anster “Fairy” ...
In the world of fairy art there are so many images from history we are familiar with, from sweet flower fairies to darker images of ...
06-02-2024
Foreign geisha in early 20th-century Japan
We have repeatedly published old postcards from the beginning of the last century, on which the masters of seduction – Japanese ...
06-02-2024
The harsh 19th century: a collection of archival photographs ...
From time immemorial, man's love for beauty and aesthetic beauty has firmly coexisted with an inexplicable craving to gaze at ...
05-02-2024
4 cases when ordinary people behaved like action heroes
It's high time for Hollywood screenwriters to adopt the stories of these ordinary people, because in extreme situations they ...
05-02-2024
How cats took part in the war
Know all about dogs in war, but without cats is not done. For the first time, cats were involved in hostilities for two and a half ...
05-02-2024
Little known UNESCO sites in Russia, which not everyone knows
The list of natural and cultural attractions that is generated by the UNESCO stamp of quality that speaks to the traveler, it's ...
04-02-2024
Why Hitler had a moustache brush and where mustard gas
Mustache brush appeared in the late 19th century in the United States and for a couple of decades, the fashion has spread all over ...
04-02-2024
The hottest babes of the 70s
The seventies of the last century were a real heyday of style, fashion and cinema, and also an era when unforgettable beauties ...
04-02-2024
22 glamorous beauty of the mid-twentieth century in elegant ...
It is impossible to overestimate the role of stocking in the lives of women. Weightless part of the female wardrobe male attracts ...