History
14.02.25
Iran during the Shah's rule
13-02-2025
"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. ...
13-02-2025
How Austrian immigrant Viktor Grunbaum came up with the idea ...
A mall, a shopping center is a distinctive feature of any big city. His life is built around him, full of shopping, entertainment ...
13-02-2025
It's not even things. Are the memories from which the soul ...
The so-called "Generation Z" are people born from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000-ies. And although the age difference between them ...
12-02-2025
7 cursed jewels that brought misfortune to the owners
In a famous song it is sung: "The best friends of girls are diamonds." At any time, not only ladies, but also men loved to decorate ...
12-02-2025
Todd Webb is an iconic 1940s photographer who never sought fame.
Todd Webb's photographs arrived at The Curator Gallery in a box intended for curator Bill Schapiro, a former Life magazine ...
12-02-2025
How did people with disabilities live in medieval Europe
Nowadays, disability implies a whole range of medical, legal and social factors. The rights of people with disabilities are ...
12-02-2025
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 ...
12-02-2025
The amazing medieval castle of Garibaldi on the banks of the ...
Who among us in childhood did not dream of knights and medieval castles? Many even realized their dream by visiting historical ...
12-02-2025
The oldest profession in the free city: a history of the red ...
On the eve of the legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands in the network surfaced historical photos of the red light ...
12-02-2025
Attitude towards the female nudity in society: a view through ...
To female nudity in different attitudes not only different people, but in different times. Moreover, to trace the changes in the ...
12-02-2025
Japan 50 years
What was Japan in the 50s? How people dressed on the streets? How things have changed since then, the Japanese city? And what new ...
12-02-2025
"My first telly": Soviet people and their coveted acquisition
In the project "My first TV set" artists Anna Pilipyuk and Vladimir Shipotilnikov remembered how in the Soviet Union the TV was a ...
11-02-2025
The Last Prophecy of Elder Ephraim of Arizona
Ephraim of Arizona, in the world Ioannis Moraitis, became a novice of the Athos elder Joseph Hesychast at the age of 19. He devoted ...
11-02-2025
The greatest car race in history: 20 thousand kilometers on ...
On the cold morning of February 12, 1908, a quarter of a million people poured out onto the streets of New York to see the start of ...
11-02-2025
6 things that made the Incas cool
While the Aztecs ripped out the hearts of the people on the tops of the pyramids, and the Mayan rulers pierced their tongues and ...
11-02-2025
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 ...
11-02-2025
20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history
Sometimes it is difficult to imagine what politicians looked like long before they gained power and left their mark on the history ...
11-02-2025
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 ...
11-02-2025
Why is the hero of Russian fairy tales Ivan the fool and what ...
The most famous and beloved hero of Russian folk tales is Ivan the Fool, or as he is affectionately called - Ivanushka. Despite an ...
10-02-2025
The unsinkable Violet Jessop, who survived three of the ...
For a long time it was believed that a woman on a ship brings bad luck. But, it turns out, there are examples of individuals who ...
10-02-2025
Negative and positive, no alternatives - 15 first photographs ...
On February 11, 1800, William Henry Fox Talbot was born in Wiltshire, Great Britain, a physicist and chemist, and it is to him that ...
10-02-2025
Thomas Edison's 15 Inventions that Changed the World
On February 11, 1847, Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, an incredibly successful inventor, scientist and businessman who ...
10-02-2025
The amazing story of Phineas Gage - the man with the crowbar ...
The possibilities of the human body are incredible. Sometimes people survive injuries that seemed to leave them no chance. One of ...
10-02-2025
How did high-heeled shoes appear and what does it have to do ...
Today, high-heeled shoes are worn for beauty and as a tribute to modern fashion. But such an approach would have seemed strange to ...
10-02-2025
Short skirts, blush on the knees, lips with a bow: What were ...
Flappers are emancipated girls who personified the generation of the "roaring twenties". Page haircut, heavily lined eyes, bright ...
10-02-2025
Why in Russia girls sometimes drowned themselves after their ...
Our ancestors lived by different rules and sometimes it is difficult for us to understand their actions. The further into the ...