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![The Tragic Story of the "Living Skeleton" Isaac Sprague](/img/2024/the-tragic-story-of-the/the-tragic-story-of-the-540x310.jpg "The Tragic Story of the "Living Skeleton" Isaac Sprague")
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01-02-2024
From the Bush to the consumer: how did the production of tea ...
From year to year in Japan is booming real collection of tea ceremony. A special procedure was in the collection of green like that ...
01-02-2024
What Cairo looked like in 1910
These color photos were taken in Cairo in 1910, when it was growing rapidly. More precisely, these are slides painted by hand, on ...
01-02-2024
A fairy tale based on real events: what is true in the film ...
Leonid Gaidai's painting "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" is rich in historical mistakes, which, of course, is excusable ...
01-02-2024
How to assess the strength and intensity of earthquakes
On January 30, 1935, the American seismologist Charles Richter proposed a new way to describe the power of earthquakes, known today ...
31-01-2024
Hundreds of centuries in just a few seconds: looks like the ...
Ancient ruins give people a unique glimpse into the past and learn how our ancestors lived and what houses were built. Historians, ...
31-01-2024
The terrible story of anesthesia, from mandrake root and ...
Any surgical intervention in the body, whether it is a kidney transplant or tooth extraction— is an unpleasant thing. But today, ...
31-01-2024
Horror repeats itself: the same type of motifs on vintage ...
There is nothing strange in the fact that certain images and concepts of fear are repeated in the horror genre. Themes of horror ...
31-01-2024
A few facts about life in Ancient Rome, which was not in the ...
We all studied in school history of Ancient Rome and watched a lot of historical films about Caesar and the gladiators. But this ...
31-01-2024
Who put Bella in the Witch's Elm? Britain's Most Mysterious Crime
When it comes to unsolved crimes, they usually mean different things. In addition to the identity of the attacker, there may be an ...
31-01-2024
"Wine, confusion, orgies and so on": 7 signs that you are in ...
George Zotov once again pleased his readers with a selection of funny facts. This time the man, in his usual cheerful manner, told ...
30-01-2024
Farah Pahlavi: the last queen of Iran who lost everything but ...
Today, some perceive Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as a symbol of a secular country free ...
30-01-2024
What is the difference between a firefighter and a firefighter?
For most of us, there is no difference between a firefighter and a firefighter. When talking about firefighters, we rarely think ...
30-01-2024
Why do men grow long nails on his pinky
Many are tormented by the question — why do some grow long nails on his pinky. If you ask the owners of such "decorations", we ...
30-01-2024
Strange and frightening exercise machines of the Victorian era
It's hard to imagine that these bulky Victorian-era machines, most resembling instruments for sophisticated torture, were used for ...
30-01-2024
Dead Water: Why Mother Shipton's Well Turns Things to Stone
There are many mystical and creepy places in the UK. This is greatly facilitated by the ancient and rich history of Foggy Albion, ...
30-01-2024
Baron Roman Ungern, the rise and fall of the Mongolian "god ...
Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg was a descendant of an ancient German knightly family. Despite this, the baron despised ...
29-01-2024
They wrote Dexter from him: about the life of a psychopathic ...
On his account, hundreds of people were killed and his own father's heart was eaten. He struck terror into everyone around him and ...
29-01-2024
How did the costume of the plague doctor and why he looks so ...
The famous suit of the plague doctor, in the form in which we know it, appeared only in the XVII century. The plague was active in ...
29-01-2024
New York in the 1940s through the lens of Weegee, the master ...
From 1938 to 1947, every evening after dark, this man took to the streets of Manhattan with a camera and flash, always with a cigar ...
29-01-2024
The prison on Devil's island: the ruthless blade "dry guillotine"
French Guiana is called "dry guillotine" — a tropical climate, abundance of deadly creatures and a wide range of fevers, ...
29-01-2024
What was the daily routine of Churchill, and, what's whisky?
Churchill routine should be Holy — just as the British Prime Minister to work effectively. Heavy drinking, bathing and long meals ...
29-01-2024
Broke through: historical images of the baby boom in the USA
Since the end of World War II, birth rates have risen sharply in the United States and other Western countries. Between 1945 and ...
28-01-2024
Amazing photos of new York 1980‑ies
Compared to the 1970-ies 1980‑e years were a time of cautious optimism in new York. Boom on wall street fueled the speculative ...
28-01-2024
Don't tell social workers: the harsh life of the kids of the past
In this post we will talk about those times, when the concept of "care for children" had a completely different meaning than now. ...
28-01-2024
The mysterious disappearance of Pauline Picard
Thousands of children go missing around the world every day. Most of them are still there. Some die or disappear without a trace, ...
28-01-2024
Why do people in old paintings seem ugly to us
Many people pay attention to the fact that old portraits, most often, depict not too attractive people. Most often this is ...