History
27-12-2023
Sivka-burka, sword-kladenets and stuff: what do the fairy ...
In early childhood, listening to tales and legends, we learned about the existence of many things and characters that do not exist ...
27-12-2023
One day on a California beach in August 1970
These wonderful black-and-white shots were taken in August 1970, when photographer Lance Nix was relaxing on Mission Bay Beach ...
27-12-2023
How did the custom of pulling boys' ears on their birthday ...
Every boy was pulled by the ears at least once on his birthday. Much less often, girls can remember about such a procedure, but ...
27-12-2023
How the Tower Bridge was built
Tower Bridge is the most famous bridge in London and one of the symbols not only of the city, but, perhaps, of the whole of ...
27-12-2023
8 items of Soviet life that have left our homes without a trace
Small-sized apartments are better than large ones. Wait to argue, let me say. Of course, if you have seven shops, then every square ...
27-12-2023
25 rare historical photos, as well as pictures of stars that ...
History allows us to plunge into the past and get out of the depths of information that is little known. We can see how people ...
26-12-2023
25 rare photos from National Geographic archives
Found is a new photo collection from the archives of National Geographic. These photographs reveal the culture and moments of the ...
26-12-2023
The Kielce Massacre: who is responsible for the post-war ...
We are used to hearing about the mass extermination of Jews in Europe during the Second World War. The fact that the pogroms ...
26-12-2023
The children lived on a desert island for more than a year, ...
The novel "Lord of the Flies", written by Nobel Prize winner William Golding, is a classic of world literature. But not everyone ...
26-12-2023
Why the name Svetlana is not recognized by the Church
The formation of Russian names occurred centuries under the influence of many factors and cultures. Despite this, our imenoslov ...
25-12-2023
How playing cards helped escape from German captivity
The Second World War is notorious not only for the huge number of casualties, but also for the large number of prisoners on both ...
25-12-2023
Why did they stop producing uranium glass
There is always a lot of speculation around uranium glass - once it has stopped being produced, it's not for nothing. Many have ...
25-12-2023
Operation Peter Pan - how the Americans took 14,000 children ...
The operation to “rescue” Cuban children by American intelligence, despite its considerable scope, did not become known in wide ...
24-12-2023
13 facts that sound so incredible that they seem like a form ...
No matter how long a person lives in the world and no matter how much new knowledge he receives, there will always be something ...
24-12-2023
13 children's photos of the most odious people in the world
Let's see what the most odious personalities of the world looked like in childhood, starting from Hitler, ending with Chikatilo. I ...
24-12-2023
Vivid photos of Cuba in 1954, which really looks like a free ...
The legendary German photographer Heinrich Heidersberger worked on the cruise ship MS Atlantic in 1954. He took thousands of shots, ...
24-12-2023
The time of fridges: a butcher's shop in Victorian England
In the Victorian era Britain was quickly urbanized. By 1851 it became the first country lived in cities of more people than in the ...
23-12-2023
Photo of Auschwitz in color: so even worse
The death of over a million people in the death camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau) — a terrible page in the history of the ...
23-12-2023
The life of Kiki Preston, a socialite, a prince's mistress ...
The person the world knows as Kiki Preston has not written novels, has not found a vaccine against a deadly disease, and has not ...
23-12-2023
15 women who have made outstanding contributions in history, ...
It just so happened that the leading role in politics, science and public life are men. At the same time as women are aiming for is ...
22-12-2023
Virgin-Martyr St. Agatha in the paintings of European artists
As we know from the history of the Christian religion, at the time of its formation and development was widespread mass ...
22-12-2023
Winter in Soviet retro photos
Drifts of snow, frost and sun, winter fun — c Soviet time, little has changed for this time of year. Feel the true atmosphere ...
22-12-2023
Rubber Fever, or the Story of a failed economic Miracle
Rubber fever is the closest relative of the gold rush. This term appeared at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when Brazil ...
22-12-2023
A human skull bonded with metal 2000 years ago amazed scientists
The fact that ancient surgeons were able to perform quite complex operations has been known for a long time. But despite this, the ...
22-12-2023
"Our dear Franz": the Nazi who killed hundreds of thousands ...
Franz Stangl was arrested on a grand scale. Several police cars and armored vehicles with machine guns, raising dust, surrounded a ...
21-12-2023
"The Court of Miracles" — why in the old days the most ...
Every major city once had its own slums and seedy places. In Moscow, it was Khitrov Market, in St. Petersburg, Sennaya Square, in ...