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Why do coins have a ribbed edge
17-01-2024
Harsh beauty: 25 brutal ideas of hairstyles for the modern Viking
The Vikings — the ancient cool kids who wore wolf skins and fought all over the world. In addition to skills to be proficient ...
17-01-2024
12 products of the past that are no longer found in stores
Now the shelves are bursting with an abundance of different types of products and I think they can see literally EVERYTHING, ...
16-01-2024
Beach fashion 1920-30s
The beach fashion of the “crazy twenties” was a kind of challenge to society. Women began wearing swimsuits that exposed their ...
16-01-2024
A window to the past: the first 30 photographs taken in 1839, ...
John Frederick William Herschel is one of the most famous and respected scientists of the nineteenth century. His interests in ...
16-01-2024
10 Pictures From ‘The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting ...
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things might be an imaginary institution, but it's so captivating that over 4 million people ...
16-01-2024
What was the fate of the real prototypes of children's fairy ...
On October 14, 1926, Alan Milne's book "Winnie the pOoh" was published in the London publishing house Methuen & Co. Children, ...
16-01-2024
10 Captivating Cosplay And Fantasy Costumes By Marga Van Der Vet
Marga van der Vet is a fabulous woman from the Netherlands in her 50s. She makes her hats, clothes, costumes, and corsets. Why? ...
16-01-2024
As a 16-year-old girl in the early XX century circled the ...
In 1922, the 16-year-old canadian Aloha Vandervell went on an adventurous expedition through the world by car Ford Model‑T became ...
15-01-2024
Why did man start shoeing horses?
For thousands of years in the wild, horses survived without shoes. Moreover, even domesticated animals ran without these ...
15-01-2024
Do you remember these things from the 90's?
These things are for today's children will be a rarity, and for some they are not even able to come up with a present purpose. ...
14-01-2024
Decay period: 40 pictures from the 90s that will cause mixed ...
Remember how broke the "unbreakable" scoop? The photo preserved in the photo album of almost every family! A selection of vintage ...
14-01-2024
8 famous photos that hide fascinating stories
Probably everyone has seen a photo of a sailor and a nurse kissing in Times Square or a portrait of Albert Einstein with his tongue ...
14-01-2024
Cemetery stories, or Why are graves dug 2 meters deep?
If we have someone's death familiarly say "played in the box", then even in jokes the Anglo—Saxons will express themselves ...
14-01-2024
"Threads", arcs and ticks: the evolution of eyebrows from ...
Over the past century, the shape of women's eyebrows has undergone many changes-from drawn threads to natural wide contours, which ...
14-01-2024
The history of sugar, or How the "sweet life" of mankind began
Although today it is customary to scold sugar harshly, people have not yet learned to do without it. The history of mankind is ...
14-01-2024
Why in the old days the husband and wife slept separately and ...
It is well known that a person sleeps a third of his life. It is not surprising that so many customs are associated with sleep. ...
14-01-2024
"Bread and water are our food": what and how they ate in ...
Today we can go to the supermarket or to the market and choose any products according to our taste and desire. The situation was ...
13-01-2024
Scientists have solved the mystery of "Game of death" in ...
Popular in Ancient Egypt Board game "Senet" or "game of death" was popular among all sections of society about 5 thousand years ...
13-01-2024
Why in the Zaporizhzhya Sich was not women
Many writers, including Nikolai Gogol in his immortal «Taras Bulba» mentioned that Sich women were not allowed. There is ...
13-01-2024
24 photo proving that our world is an amazing place
Our beautiful and diverse world will surprise even the most inveterate skeptic! We publish a selection of irrefutable photoproofs ...
13-01-2024
The gastronomic whims of the most brutal dictators
Cobra roast. Hallucinogenic root. Chicken from KFC. All these are the favorite dishes of the most brutal dictators of the XX ...
13-01-2024
9 creepy facts about the real Dracula
We all remember Count Dracula, created by Bram Stoker. He is one of the most famous vampires in literature, it was he who became ...
12-01-2024
These Russian surnames are actually Jewish, but no one even ...
Few people know, but some popular supposedly Russian surnames are actually Jewish. And we are not talking about the Abramovichs, ...
12-01-2024
Blond Silvett David: the mystery of the unknown Muse of the ...
Artists perpetuate the images of his muses in paintings, sculptures and other works. Them they draw inspiration for creativity. ...
12-01-2024
"Golden age" of Silicon valley
American photographer Doug Menuez (Doug Menuez) for 15 years, sealing in the photos of the so-called "Golden age" of Silicon ...
12-01-2024
30 oldest photos from family archives
Netizens were asked to share the oldest photos that are in their family collections — and it turned out to be a real excursion ...