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![Why the film "Only Girls in Jazz" is black and white](/img/2025/why-the-film-only-girls-in/why-the-film-only-girls-in-540x310.jpg "Why the film "Only Girls in Jazz" is black and white")
01.02.25
How cats took part in the war
31-01-2025
Amazing little-known historical photos
Another collection of amazing historical photos will tell you about how quickly our world is changing over the years. Flying ...
31-01-2025
"Wine, confusion, orgies and so on": 7 signs that you are in ...
George Zotov once again pleased his readers with a selection of funny facts. This time the man, in his usual cheerful manner, told ...
31-01-2025
Grandma Knew Best: 12 Old School Beauty Hacks That Never Miss
Before TikTok tutorials and 12-step skincare routines, our grandmas were out there serving looks with whatever they found in their ...
![The story of Frank "Rocky" Figl - the real sailor Popeye](/img/2025/the-story-of-frank-rocky/the-story-of-frank-rocky-170x170.jpg "The story of Frank "Rocky" Figl - the real sailor Popeye")
31-01-2025
The story of Frank "Rocky" Figl - the real sailor ...
It's no secret that many cartoon characters had very real prototypes. Among them is the sailor Popeye, whom the world learned ...
31-01-2025
Why Don't People Smile in Old Photos?
When people are photographed, they are often asked to smile. This makes the photo look more alive and the face more attractive. ...
31-01-2025
They look, but they don't see: the faces of soldiers who have ...
In the American military vocabulary there is a term "a look at two thousand yards". This is what they say about the facial ...
30-01-2025
Congo Muller: A Nazi and an African mercenary with a Devil's ...
The Soviet press called the former chief lieutenant of the German Wehrmacht, Siegfried Muller ,a "rapist and murderer", a "sadist", ...
30-01-2025
50 bucket pictures that will remind you how important it is ...
We used to take many things for granted, including our loved ones. So often we don't appreciate the moments spent with your loved ...
30-01-2025
Marilyn Monroe in a bikini and 24 more wonderful historical ...
History helps us learn more about a time when we were not yet born or were too young to remember anything, and sometimes it reminds ...
30-01-2025
How to assess the strength and intensity of earthquakes
On January 30, 1935, the American seismologist Charles Richter proposed a new way to describe the power of earthquakes, known today ...
30-01-2025
There is a video that shows how big was Robert Wadlow — the ...
22 Feb 1918 in the American family, Wadlow was born, the boy Robert, who was destined to become the tallest man in history ...
30-01-2025
"He's a fucking genius!": America of the mid-20th century in ...
American photographer Bruce Davidson had the talent to gain the trust of completely different people. He could come to Harlem and ...
30-01-2025
The most dangerous a study by British scientists: "operation ...
British scientists over the past few years have become heroes memes, jokes and anecdotes, due to their inexplicable passion for ...
29-01-2025
Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s
Photochromes are bright, hand-made color images based on black-and-white negatives. Photochromes appear as a result of a process ...
29-01-2025
The latest suicide bomber in Britain: what were executed the ...
In the spring of 1955, the British press was enthusiastic murder. On a London street several shots from a revolver, was killed ...
29-01-2025
Kaiten: how the Japanese torpedo people appeared, and why so ...
The whole world knows about Japanese kamikaze suicide pilots. This word has even become a household word for people who are ...
29-01-2025
30 color photographs of Venice in the 1890‑ies
These photographs depict Venice 1890‑ies: the famous canals, beautiful palaces, and squares, as well as the everyday life of ...
29-01-2025
Chang and Eng Bunker: The Story of the Brothers Who Created ...
Today, there is hardly any need to explain who Siamese twins are — even children know that they are people who have fused their ...
28-01-2025
"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 ...
28-01-2025
"Codex Gigas": where is the book written by the devil himself ...
In the first half of the XIII century, a novice of a poor Czech monastery wrote a book that, because of its huge size, was called ...
28-01-2025
Who are the "bobyli" and why were they treated as ...
Today, when we say «bobyl lives », we mean a single man who does not seek to have serious relationships with women and ...
28-01-2025
The story of Getty Green, the Witch of Wall Street, the ...
If you suddenly think that your mother-in-law is a snake and a miser, then do not rush to conclusions. History knows worse ...
28-01-2025
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, ...
27-01-2025
The 5 most effective Soviet women snipers of the Second World War
It is believed that war is not a woman's business. But when the enemy comes to their native land, they often have to reconsider ...
27-01-2025
From pseudocode to candy arsenic: the top 5 grocery fakes in ...
Food adulteration were not yesterday. Enterprising manufacturers have learned to benefit from counterfeit products in the XIX ...
27-01-2025
The Last Judgment on earth: how the Pope punished the corpse
The Papacy is one of the oldest institutions in the world. It is not surprising that there have been many dark pages in the history ...