02-04-2025
Why the Catholic Church dislikes cats
In the middle Ages cats suffered a great deal from Catholics. They were burned and tortured, thrown behind bars and into the fire, ...
02-04-2025
Top 10 bizarre military inventions that were not meant to get ...
The easiest way to attract investments in the military project, if you say that the new army will become invincible. However, as ...
02-04-2025
9 Historical Myths You Still Believe
The history of mankind has always been and will be a subject of controversy. Historians swear and argue literally on every ...
02-04-2025
9 very strange methods that our ancestors used to diagnose ...
Today, it is not difficult to determine whether a woman is pregnant or not. It is enough to go to the pharmacy, buy a test strip ...
02-04-2025
10 creepy medicines that were made from the dead
The history of medicine knows many examples when medicines were made from strange and even dangerous substances. But the most ...
02-04-2025
How to get people to smoke? Cigarette advertising in the ...
At the beginning of the 20th century there was a real explosion in the field of tobacco advertising. Large companies such as Camel, ...
01-04-2025
Drank - to jail! How the smallest sobering-up station worked ...
For many, a sobering-up station is something brutal and shameful from the Soviet era. But such establishments for bringing drunks ...
01-04-2025
"Black Avengers": the gang that kept the whole of Moscow at bay
Saban (as the leader of the Black Avengers gang called himself) hated policemen and rich people. He blamed the former for his years ...
01-04-2025
The strange story of Walburga Osterreich, who kept a secret ...
From time to time, details of a murder come up that sound so strange that they seem to have been made up in the office of one of ...
01-04-2025
As residents of the Italian town many centuries shared bread ...
In the Italian town Venzone in the province of Udine people have long lived side by side with the mummies. Drank tea with them, had ...
01-04-2025
Forget what you were taught in school: facts that have ceased ...
Everything changes over time. And even those facts that you previously considered reinforced concrete may change after some time. ...
01-04-2025
The story of Pluto Lamp: how a Briton taught lanterns to sell ...
What functions do you think, besides lighting, can street lamps perform? Well, unless you count their use as makeshift bulletin ...
01-04-2025
Mutiny on a Trawler: How Fishermen from the Lu Rong Yu 2682 ...
Mutinies on ships were once commonplace. Tired of months of hardship, the crews of sailing ships would get rid of the captain and ...
31-03-2025
How our ancestors fought insomnia
If you think that sleep disorders are a problem of a modern person, then you are deeply mistaken. Insomnia has tormented people at ...
31-03-2025
View from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour: what Moscow ...
In September 1839, the solemn laying of the new Cathedral of Christ the Saviour took place. The construction lasted almost 44 ...
31-03-2025
Young and old, or How long people actually lived in ancient times
For many years, we were taught that even in the 19th century, a person was considered an old man at the age of 30, and life ...
31-03-2025
Black widow Belle Gunness who killed their own children, ...
Some people just love to watch horror movies, because it's a great way to "tickle" their nerves and get the adrenaline rush from ...
31-03-2025
Rare color photographs of England, 1928
The late 1920s and early 1930s photographer Clifton R. Adams (Clifton R. Adams) spent in England, where he went on behalf of the ...
31-03-2025
Burned, but saved the children: about the unprecedented feat ...
The name of Alexander p. Mamkin has gone down in history thanks to his exploits during the great Patriotic war. One of them is the ...
31-03-2025
How people imagined the future 120 years ago
Everyone sometimes imagines what the life of humanity will look like in many years. Many of us were waiting for October 21, 2015 to ...
31-03-2025
The incredible story of how the Queen of Britain married the ...
In the 19th century, a small mistake in translation led to the fact that the Nigerian king for many years began to consider the ...
30-03-2025
10 facts about the Eiffel tower
On March 31, 1889, 132 years ago in Paris, a solemn opening of the Eiffel tower. On this day the engineer Gustave Eiffel hoisted on ...
30-03-2025
Two against all: a touching love story of a Nazi and a Jewish ...
On March 30, 1943, 46-year-old Willy Schultz shot another German soldier and voluntarily surrendered to Soviet partisans. And all ...
30-03-2025
30 incredible portraits of Maori women with traditional tattoos
By the end of the XIX century the art of Maori tattoo has almost disappeared due to the spread in New Zealand bounty hunting, but ...
29-03-2025
How and why did they attempt to kill the mummy of the leader ...
Political leaders are often targeted for assassination attempts. The recognized leader in their number was and remains Fidel ...
29-03-2025
Hiking, hunting, fun games: rare photo captures the everyday ...
People on these unique family photo enjoy life, not knowing that just a few years, their idyll comes to a tragic end. This loving ...