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20.10.24
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20-10-2024
30 unique views of old Paris
Paris is an amazing and magical city, with streets on both banks of the Seine. Its historical center has been developing for many ...
20-10-2024
How the most expensive and magnificent funerals of famous ...
On November 15, 1982, the funeral of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev took place on Red Square. As at the farewell to his predecessors, ...
20-10-2024
How the huge armies of the past relieved themselves
In the history of mankind it is hardly possible to find a year when there was not a war somewhere. The armies of the past were huge ...
20-10-2024
Polish Jews through the eyes of Alter Katzizne. Amazing pictures!
There was a man with a funny name Alter Katzizne. He was a writer and playwright, and even a poet in some ways. A couple of his ...
20-10-2024
Nuclear tourism in the USA, or How the nuclear test site ...
The American city of Las Vegas, located in the heart of the Mojave Desert, has been attracting gamblers and fans of enchanting ...
19-10-2024
12 records that no one will ever break
It seems that since the Guinness Book of Records became popular in 1955, people are constantly trying to break other people's ...
19-10-2024
Deadly bet: How to land a plane blindly and kill 70 people
This tragedy occurred on October 20, 1986 when landing at Kuibyshev airport. A monstrous case. Probably, it has no analogues in ...
19-10-2024
What's wrong with babies in old paintings
Even if you are not interested in painting at all, you still noticed how strange children were portrayed several centuries ago. ...
19-10-2024
Belle Starr: Queen of bandits of the Wild West
The bandits and the Wild West are almost synonymous. Shooting, cowboys, hats, revolvers — all this dangerous "world of men". But ...
19-10-2024
Stars of the 80s: young, bright and unbridled
The 1980s were a truly revolutionary decade — in everything related to fashion, music, cinema, etc. Here are some candid (and ...
18-10-2024
About the life of Francesca Viola, a woman who survived ...
The Sicilian Mafia has always been considered the most brutal and "immortal" criminal group in the world. It is not surprising that ...
18-10-2024
Why is the devil depicted with horns and hooves
Devils are traditionally depicted with horns, hooves and tails. Sometimes a pig's piglet and wings are added, as well as thick fur ...
17-10-2024
What first class looked like on cruise ships before the era ...
Before airplane travel became commonplace, cruise ships were the only way to travel vast distances. And if you had money, then ...
17-10-2024
Retrofoto from the series "What the fuck?!"
Analyzing old archives, you can stumble upon something that involuntarily raises a natural question: "What the hell is this?!" ...
17-10-2024
"You can't love on the phone": the dramatic fate of comedian ...
Lucille Ball was an iconic figure in the film industry and still remains on the list of the best comedy actresses of the twentieth ...
17-10-2024
How Britain's trade with Russia influenced the history of ...
We are used to the fact that all the most advanced and high-quality products come to us from other countries. But this was not ...
17-10-2024
Etzi's "Ice Man" and his story
In 1991, on the Similaun glacier, which is located in the Tyrolean Alps, two German tourists discovered a perfectly preserved body ...
17-10-2024
15 rare photos showing free Soviet medicine in all its glory
It is generally believed that medicine was one of the main indisputable achievements of the Soviet Union: citizens of the country ...
17-10-2024
15 historical facts that allow you to look at time from a ...
It would seem that execution using the guillotine is something from the very distant past. But it was canceled in the same year ...
17-10-2024
Why breast of French Queen Marie Antoinette is remembered ...
You will hardly remember how you looked the wife of the king of France Louis XVI Marie Antoinette, 18th century. But we can ...
16-10-2024
For that, the last master of the knights Templar cursed the ...
On January 21 1793, the French revolutionaries beheaded king Louis XVI of the Bourbon. Someone in the crowd shouted that the master ...
16-10-2024
The adventures of the crazy hatter Boston Corbett, or How the ...
Many people remember the shot of the mafia nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who on November 24, 1963 took the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, ...
15-10-2024
"Dancing plague" of the middle Ages — a deadly epidemic, ...
Among the many different epidemics, vukasinovich the population of Europe for the last thousand years, "the dancing plague" can be ...
15-10-2024
The Leo Frank case: why Atlanta residents lynched a Jewish ...
Late in the evening of August 17, 1915, hundreds of Atlanta residents filled the streets of the small town of Milledgeville. They ...
15-10-2024
"The dove" for the elite: prostitution at the highest level ...
Heavy scent of expensive perfume mixed with cigarette smoke filled the air. In the corridors with a luxurious interior, heard the ...
15-10-2024
Riding an electric car: how the passengers of the Titanic and ...
The journey from Europe to America on an ocean liner at the beginning of the XX century took almost a week. It is clear that the ...