06-06-2023
What did the first female bodybuilders of the early XX ...
Meet the formidable, but charming female bodybuilders of the early XX century. It was they who stepped over social norms and ...
06-06-2023
Retro photos from the colorful Taiwan of the late 1970s
Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China and the official capital of Taiwan Province within the PRC. It is the political, ...
06-06-2023
Disappearing Italy in the pictures of the iconic photographer ...
Gianni Berengo Gardin is one of the legendary Italian photographers, for more than half a century he has been capturing beautiful ...
06-06-2023
10 unusual theories that change the perspective on world history
There are people who believe that any historical event — it is a carefully planned action with a purpose and a part of a ...
05-06-2023
"Inconvenient" Suvorov: what facts from the commander's life ...
In the first years after the great Russian generals such as Alexander Suvorov, no reverence had. They disparagingly called ...
05-06-2023
Scam of the Century: A story about a Tribe that Never Existed
In the early 1970s, magazines and television in different countries of the world talked about the unique Tasadai tribe that lives ...
05-06-2023
Why did Pushkin call his muse Anna Kern a harlot
Russian aristocrat Anna Petrovna Kern was one of the most striking beauties of the Pushkin era. It is to her that the poem "I ...
05-06-2023
Scientists have reached a dead end, investigating the mummy ...
The small church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is located in a village with the cozy name of Cherry (now part of Vinnitsa). In ...
05-06-2023
What are the luxury laws and how they worked at different times
"What is allowed to Jupiter, is not allowed to the bull" — this was the ancient Roman winged expression. The essence of this ...
05-06-2023
The king and the Diva: a chance encounter of two stars
Celebrities never be on your own. Just one fleeting meeting United Sophia Loren and Elvis Presley and, of course, there was the ...
05-06-2023
Planting on an anthill — for which Russia relied on a ...
Over the history of mankind, people have come up with thousands of ways to exterminate their own kind. Our ancestors showed a ...
04-06-2023
7 women who survived the attack of serial killers
It is difficult to imagine that man can feel, who managed to avoid death. Even harder to understand what is happening with those ...
04-06-2023
Sex, the Sultan and the scandal: as the joy of ruined Ibrahim ...
Usually historical articles are terribly boring and uninteresting, but not if they are written by Georgy Zotov. We promise that the ...
04-06-2023
Love to the grave: the tragic story of an Arab princess who ...
It is only in the fairy tale about Aladdin that an oriental beauty can marry a commoner who has won her heart. In fact, the fate of ...
04-06-2023
Highlights of African Americans ' struggle for their rights
At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, "I have a dream" was performed – the famous speech of the black preacher Martin Luther ...
04-06-2023
Funny fool Schlitz Sertis: how the fate of the most famous ...
The sight of this ugly, but at the same time sweet, kind, lively and friendly person causes not so much horror as sympathy and ...
04-06-2023
Battle of the clowns with fire, riots due to ass and other ...
It is well known that a bloody war can start with some trifle, for example, over a stolen bucket. Rebellions can also be caused by ...
04-06-2023
Every meal is like the last: the story of Margot ...
And great villains have basic needs — the same as other people. For example, sleep and nutrition. At the same time, not all of ...
03-06-2023
The charm of French women of the 50s in the lens of Georges ...
The charm of French women of the 50s of the last century always fascinates, attracts a historical component, and it is a classic of ...
03-06-2023
The story of a genocide: the Australian aborigines were ...
U.S. 70-ies of the last century, racial segregation have almost ceased to remind myself. Dark-skinned artists, actors and ...
03-06-2023
In prison of the 19th century there was a Ladder Cubitt, the ...
Can't explain the dislike for sports? Maybe in past lives you have experienced the torture of fitness! In the late 19th century in ...
03-06-2023
Face distorted in the throes of agony: images before and ...
The eruption of the volcano Montagne Pelee in 1902 was the worst volcanic disaster of the twentieth century. In less than a minute, ...
03-06-2023
The Court in Ancient Egypt: how to punish for various crimes ...
In ancient Egypt, people's actions were judged according to moral and religious laws. They tried and condemned not only the living, ...
03-06-2023
The story of Konstantin Morozov – the smallest man in the USSR
Resident of Ulyanovsk Konstantin Morozov had a height of only 63 cm. A congenital disease-chondrodystrophy-stopped the development ...
03-06-2023
How in Russia, without doctors, they determined the onset of ...
Nowadays, the death certificate, with rare exceptions, is carried out by a medical professional-a doctor or a paramedic. But just a ...
02-06-2023
The 5 most popular"can't": what was forbidden to do in Soviet ...
Discipline was an integral part of Soviet education. Numerous "no's" left almost no space for personal choice and self-expression, ...