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25.02.23
Toyota History: from Looms to Cars
10-02-2023
Soviet Odessa through the eyes of British photographer Ian Berry
In 1982, the famous British photographer Ian Berry visited the Ukrainian SSR as a photojournalist. During this trip, he took a ...
09-02-2023
Disneyland on its opening day in 1955
On July 17, 1955, Walt Disney's dream of turning into reality the amazing worlds created by his imagination finally came true - the ...
08-02-2023
Retrophotographs of Playboy bunnies
Sexy Playboy retros. Let's take a look at what the popular girls of the famous magazine used to be... as well as the young Hugh ...
06-02-2023
Why did ancient Roman husbands give up their wives to other men?
Marcia was 19 years old when her father married Marcus Porcius Cato Jr. Marcus Portius was divorced, having successfully exiled his ...
04-02-2023
"Instead of culture, there are lice." Anti-Russian postcards ...
The war is waged not only on the battlefield. The most important element of large—scale armed conflicts that require the ...
04-02-2023
Color photos of summer Moscow in 1961
We invite you to a photo tour of Moscow in 1961. A time when there were more pedestrians than cars, outdoor advertising didn't get ...
03-02-2023
Erotic calendar with Mayakovsky quotes for the centenary of ...
Artist Andrey Tarusov drew a "revolutionary" calendar for 2017, which combined the American pin-up graphic style, Soviet ...
02-02-2023
China of the 80s is similar to the Soviet Union as a twin brother
For many who were born in Hong Kong in the 1960s, mainland China of the 70s and 80s was both close and very far away. It seemed ...
01-02-2023
Sydney's Criminal underground of the 1920s and 1940s: rare ...
The "creative tandem" of a mother and daughter who sold cocaine and a gang of thieves who disguised themselves as women and stole ...
01-02-2023
Smoke with a rocker: how smoking competitions were held in ...
In the old days, smokers lived much more freely: they did not expel them from public places, they did not frighten them with ...
01-02-2023
Healthy lifestyle at the maximum: A rich biohacker spends ...
Brian Johnson is a 45—year-old IT millionaire who is obsessed with the idea not just to preserve health and improve the quality ...
01-02-2023
The harsh XIX century: a collection of archival photographs ...
From time immemorial, man's love for the beautiful and aesthetic beauty has been firmly side by side with an inexplicable craving ...
01-02-2023
"Mother of the monster": how Clara Hitler lived and passed away
In 1860, a girl named Clara was born in Austria. The girl grew up and gave birth to a famous man who became a monster for the whole ...
31-01-2023
Derby in diapers: how were the retro races of crawling babies
This is a very questionable from an ethical point of view, but no less popular event was held annually as part of the fair in ...
31-01-2023
Through the fabric of time: the Liberation of besieged ...
On January 27, 1944, as a result of Operation January Thunder, the complete lifting of the siege of Leningrad was completed. To ...
30-01-2023
It's hard to believe what happened: 10 incredible historical ...
Historical moments are so interesting that you will never get tired of studying them. Rare photographs of celebrities, ancient ...
27-01-2023
Why is James Cameron perhaps the main director of our time?
James Cameron studied physics at the University of California, but, fortunately, did not agree with the exact sciences, and now ...
23-01-2023
Royal treat: menu from the coronation of Nicholas II
On May 14, 1896, the last coronation of the emperor in the Russian Empire took place in the Assumption Cathedral — Nicholas II ...
22-01-2023
Haile Selassie — the last Emperor of Ethiopia, descendant ...
Haile Selassie I (translated as his name means might, the power of the Trinity) was first the regent of the country, and since 1930 ...
20-01-2023
A 3,000-year-old statue of Pharaoh Ramses II has been found ...
A group of archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have discovered fragments of a statue in Cairo that supposedly depicts Pharaoh ...
20-01-2023
7 paintings hiding other works of art: from Malevich's Black ...
Have you ever wondered how famous painters created their main canvases? In a burst of inspiration, did you write everything in a ...
19-01-2023
Who's Who: Legendary Fashion Photographers of the 20th Century
Today, August 19th is World Photography Day. On this occasion, we decided to tell you about legendary fashion photographers. They ...
19-01-2023
It's a fact: Google Images was created thanks to Jennifer Lopez
On the air - our new column "This is a fact", in which we will share various truths and historical information from the world of ...
17-01-2023
Turkey's first female photographer and her extravagant models
Mariam Shahinyan is considered to be the first woman in Turkey who became professionally engaged in photography. An Armenian ...
17-01-2023
How to change China for a hundred years
It is always interesting to see evidence of superiority of a person or, on the contrary, the evidence of his inability to cope with ...
17-01-2023
Who supports Stalin in his native Georgia in 2017
64 years have passed since the death of Joseph Stalin. In his homeland, Georgia, following Ukraine and the Baltic states in 2011, ...