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11-07-2022
14 Iconic Couples We Admired In The 90s
According to research, we have a social tendency to care deeply about the status of people who we think have a higher status than ...
08-07-2022
The most beautiful places in Germany
Germany is rich in beautiful and unique landscapes: breathtaking natural landscapes coexist here with historical castles and cozy ...
07-07-2022
On the anniversary of the explosion of a residential building ...
20 years ago, on the night of September 8-9, 1999, at 23.58, a powerful explosion occurred in the house No. 19 on Guryanov Street ...
06-07-2022
Friday the 13th and Harvest Moon: what will happen on this ...
For a long time, Friday the 13th has been considered the most unfavorable day of the year, shrouded in fear and mystical events. ...
05-07-2022
8 places on Earth shrouded in mystery
Geographic latitude, in the seas, oceans, mountains, caves and steppes. Scientists are scratching their heads over the unsolved ...
05-07-2022
Silver Anniversary: 25 interesting facts about "Friends" in ...
The sitcom "Friends" turns 25 this week, and we celebrate the anniversary together with all the fans of this wonderful series. The ...
04-07-2022
Mystical cases of mass disappearance of people that have ...
Any crime leaves traces, the blogger P_I_F reasonably notes. This is an immutable truth, from which investigators and ...
03-07-2022
Interesting facts about the real Alice in Wonderland
On July 4, 1865, the first edition of Lewis Carroll's book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"was published. "Alice in Wonderland" ...
02-07-2022
Ladies in yellow. Legalized prostitution in the Russian Empire
Until the beginning of the XVIII century, courtesans in Russia were on free bread. The first autocrat who introduced legislative ...
02-07-2022
South Korea's bloodiest maniac has been caught, but he will ...
The case of the Hwasong serial killer, over which the best detectives of South Korea have been fighting for 33 years, has finally ...
01-07-2022
Radioactive attraction: in Chernobyl, a control room was ...
Excursions to the exclusion zone are becoming more popular, so even more new objects are being opened for visitors. Now tourists ...
01-07-2022
Why did 21-year-old Russian Jack the Ripper Nikolai Radkevich ...
The first officially registered serial killer in Russia — 21-year-old Nikolai Radkevich shocked the public of the capital with ...
30-06-2022
Romano Canoni is an Italian photographer who became the "eyes ...
Italian photojournalist Romano Cagnoni has left this world at the age of 82. He was one of the most famous photographers of the XX ...
30-06-2022
11 actresses who brought Cleopatra to life on the big screen
There are a few historical figures who managed to escape the textbooks and become, one way or another, part of popular culture. ...
30-06-2022
5 ways to earn money for children in the USSR
By law, children under 14 were not allowed to work in the USSR. But what would a teenager not go to in order to have their own ...
27-06-2022
As the "Russian devils" bombed vakhabitov in the Holy city of ...
Interbellum (the period between the two world wars) will be remembered by many a local, but very interesting conflict. Some of them ...
26-06-2022
The right to choose: how abortion was treated in the USSR and ...
Mass protests are taking place in the USA against the background of the abolition of the right to abortion — there are clashes ...
26-06-2022
Peter the Great did these things with his own hands
The first Russian emperor was a man of many professions. Miraculously, some of the things he created have survived and are still ...
25-06-2022
The Walking Dead: a traditional parade in honor of the Day of ...
Although Halloween used to have a sacred meaning, now it has turned into a cheerful holiday of chaos and pranks. In Mexico, they do ...
25-06-2022
Amazingly crazy inventions of the XX century
If Uncle Fyodor had been an engineer, he would have said this: "In order to invent something necessary, you must first come up with ...
25-06-2022
Old photos you rarely see
We study the past in order to understand the present. And photos can help us a lot. However, even though textbooks and other ...
23-06-2022
Why the victory parade of 1945 to the mausoleum threw the ...
The culmination of the first Victory Parade June 24, 1945 was the moment when the Nazi banners were thrown to the foot of the Lenin ...
23-06-2022
What did the first stations of the Moscow metro look like in ...
The first line of the Kaganovich Moscow Metro opened on May 15, 1935. Trains ran from the Sokolniki station to the Park of Culture, ...
22-06-2022
Light up! Guy Fawkes Night in the UK was bright and hot
Guy Fawkes Night (or Bonfire Night) has long turned into a loud colorful holiday dedicated to the disclosure of the so-called ...
19-06-2022
The art of dance through the eyes of Russian artists
Russian artists considered dance to be one of the best ways to depict the colors and diversity of folk culture.
17-06-2022
The wolves of Wall Street have scented prey: Yale University ...
The Dutch bond of 1648, housed in the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University, differs from the tens of ...