History
26-01-2024
Fred and Rosemary West are the most violent couple ever
They say it's good when a husband and wife have a common hobby. But what if it's a hobby — murder and rape? Fred and Rosemary ...
25-01-2024
Cases of catastrophic hyperinflation that will remain in history
People say that money is just paper. But using this figurative expression, we do not even guess how close we are to the truth. Get ...
25-01-2024
A brief but stunning history of burlesque in the 1950s
Today burlesque is a real art form. Modern burlesque performers, men and women, combine the most explosive aspects of costumed ...
25-01-2024
Dress Mantua luxurious, but terribly uncomfortable invention ...
History is replete with examples of in search of beauty and elegance man rushes from one extreme to another. Baroque and Rococo ...
25-01-2024
Photos of world rock stars in their youth that you are ...
This truly historical selection includes diptychs of famous singers and musicians. When you first look at these portraits, you ...
24-01-2024
How anthropologist Grover Krantz and his Dog Clyde became ...
There is an unusual exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. This is the skeleton of a man, on whose chest ...
24-01-2024
16 hoaxes that have been believed in for a very long time
Many people are interested in topics that science cannot explain. We like conspiracies and hoaxes. Throughout history, both ...
24-01-2024
“Sleeping sickness”: the story of an epidemic whose ...
Everyone knows about the Spanish flu epidemic, which claimed tens of millions of lives at the beginning of the 20th century. But ...
24-01-2024
The evolution of a beer can: From simple to elementary
January 24 is a significant day for beer connoisseurs. 88 years ago, the foam drink first appeared on sale in a metal jar. The ...
24-01-2024
Unsuccessful medical reform, or How "crazy quarters" appeared ...
A psychiatric hospital is not a very pleasant place. Detached madmen, creepy experimental doctors and a general atmosphere of ...
24-01-2024
25 ancient human creations
It's amazing how mankind has progressed over the last century, decades or even years. Science is advancing faster than ever, new ...
23-01-2024
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 ...
23-01-2024
A great history of Russia in atmospheric paintings of Paul ...
Mixed leaf catch the eye, make you think, listen to "the call of the blood". Most of the paintings of Pavel Ryzhenko-soaked ...
23-01-2024
What did Europeans eat in the Middle Ages and why we can envy ...
Many believe that the Middle Ages is a dark and dangerous time in which people did not live, but survived. Mankind was decimated by ...
23-01-2024
Costume ball 1903 — the most famous masquerade last Emperor ...
In 1903, 11 and 13 February, during the reign of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II took place on the famous costume ball in ...
23-01-2024
Like booze Baker saved from the Titanic, and many passengers ...
Drunk man does not always right. What can I say — sometimes even illogical. Usually this creates problems for him and others, but ...
22-01-2024
Top 5 most unusual Railways of Switzerland
At the end of the XIX century on the "roof of Europe", in the Alps, became like mushrooms after the rain appeared the mountain ...
22-01-2024
Knives, salt and other unusual forms of ancient currency
Money. Just with this one word, people have a lot of feelings, thoughts and emotions. But would you accept a bar of salt or a huge ...
22-01-2024
Soviet Yerevan
Yerevan is considered one of the oldest cities in the world. The year of its foundation is considered to be the year of the ...
22-01-2024
The story of the suicidal chef Bernard Loiseau, who became ...
Most of us have seen the American full-length cartoon "Ratatouille", released in 2007. Someone remembers such a character as the ...
22-01-2024
Retro photo: From the life of Lilliputians
Discover the pages of show business history with our unique selection of archival photographs reflecting the role of Lilliputians ...
21-01-2024
"You want the honors, power and lust": he finished the priest ...
In 1634, the French Inquisition burned at the stake priest Urban Grandier. Accused priest in the signing of a contract with Satan ...
21-01-2024
From serf to court supplier: the story of the “vodka ...
Smirnoff brand vodka is known all over the world. Many consider it Russian, drawing conclusions from the name. The famous British ...
21-01-2024
Why the Tambov peasants impaled Bolshevik Sophia gehlberg
The period of the Civil war will forever remain in history as a time of anarchy, violence and destruction. This era has produced ...
21-01-2024
How a joke about pies caused an uprising with human victims ...
The events that took place in 1962 in the city of Novocherkassk were strictly classified and for the first time the broad masses ...
21-01-2024
12 facts about the favorite children's fiction "Guest from ...
For more than 35 years, the five-part film "Guest from the Future" has been one of the important elements of nostalgia for Soviet ...