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![The first beauty contest in the USSR "Moscow Beauty"](/img/2023/the-first-beauty-contest/the-first-beauty-contest-540x310.jpg "The first beauty contest in the USSR "Moscow Beauty"")
!["Retrofisra": 1895-1937](/img/2023/retrofisra-1895-1937/retrofisra-1895-1937-540x310.jpg ""Retrofisra": 1895-1937")
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"Retrofisra": 1895-1937
17.03.23
Victorian burlesque dancers
16.03.23
In memory of Freddie Mercury
16-03-2023
How were surgeries done at the beginning of the last century
Those who want to be a doctor after seeing House MD, where MRIs are done for any reason, should look through Richard Barnett's ...
15-03-2023
Thousands of Scots enter Scandinavian paradise
In January, the traditional Uphelio Festival (Up Helly Aa) was held on the Shetland Islands, located off the coast of Scotland. The ...
15-03-2023
How were the glamorous parties of the leaders of Yugoslavia
After the socialist government came to Yugoslavia after the Second World War, Christmas as a religious holiday was banned. So the ...
15-03-2023
1855: The Crimean War is the first military conflict ever ...
One of the causes of the Crimean War in the 1850s was a dispute over the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was ...
15-03-2023
What were punks 30 years ago
Those unfamiliar with the culture of the 1980s Los Angeles punk and hardcore scene may not have heard of photographers Brian and ...
15-03-2023
Lost Childhood: Horrible child labor conditions photographed ...
Lewis Hine was one of the first photographers to use photography as a tool to combat those terrible working and living conditions ...
15-03-2023
Strange costumes, acrobats and creepy clowns - photographs of ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, traveling circuses were a rarity and almost the only entertainment in the small towns of ...
15-03-2023
Strength, Courage and Flying Skirts - Highland Games in Scotland
The Scottish Highland Games became an annual event during the Victorian period. Tests of strength and courage have been held on ...
15-03-2023
The non-existent evolution of Pablo Picasso's self-portraits
If you look at a number of self-portraits of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (by the way, the most expensive artist in the ...
15-03-2023
20 unique photos with greetings from the past
Photographs are a time machine that can take you back several years or even centuries. And the older they get, the more valuable ...
15-03-2023
Previously unseen photos of Bob Dylan and his friends
One day in the summer of 1975, at 3:00 a.m., photographer Ken Regan's phone rang. At such a late hour, music producer Barry ...
15-03-2023
The richest medieval treasure discovered in Holland
An exhibition is opening at the Museum of Antiquities of the Netherlands, which will present the rarest treasure for this country ...
15-03-2023
Mansa Musa is the richest man in history
African supreme ruler Musa Keita I is considered the richest man of all times and peoples - richer than you can imagine. In the XIV ...
15-03-2023
Josef Stalin jokes
According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Joseph Stalin was a very witty man. Typical situations were described in his memoirs by ...
15-03-2023
Endless poverty on the streets of London in 1873-1877
Between 1873 and 1877, Scottish photographer John Thomson, along with journalist Adolph Smith, documented the lives of London's ...
15-03-2023
America 50s in color
Blogger samsebeskazal says: “Photos from the times when the sky was bluer, the sun brighter, and life was much simpler and freer. ...
14-03-2023
Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him
Of course, you know that the surname Stalin is a pseudonym. Joseph Dzhugashvili was born in 1878 in Georgia, which was then part of ...
14-03-2023
Beer love post: how real Guinness was brewed
In 1759 Irish brewer Arthur Guinness signed a lease on an abandoned brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin. The annual rent was ...
14-03-2023
“Elizabeth, we loved everything!”
Among the pieces of peeling paint and fragments of broken mirrors, everything breathes history, surrounded by dead silence. Urban ...
14-03-2023
What Jerusalem looked like in the last days of Turkish rule
Over the thousand-year history of Jerusalem, its rulers and their subjects have changed countless times - ancient pagans, biblical ...
14-03-2023
Portraits of Victorian Geniuses by Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron was born in Calcutta in 1815, spent her childhood and youth there, married, and then moved to London. At the ...
14-03-2023
What the world's most famous landmarks looked like in the ...
Retronaut creator and curator Wolfgang Wilde has released a book that will change the way we think about the past. The book ...
14-03-2023
Marble stadium of the first Olympic Games
On April 6, 1896, the first modern Summer Olympic Games began in Athens. These Games were quite different from those we are used to ...
14-03-2023
Rock and roll on the other side of the lens
Photographers Pattie Boyd, Henry Diltz, Joel Bernstein and Graham Nash, who is also known for the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & ...
14-03-2023
Memoirs of a Courtesan
Born in 1876 in the Netherlands, Margareta Gertrud Zelle married a captain in the Dutch army at the age of 18. In 1897, together ...
14-03-2023
Luxury flight in the seventies on a Boeing 747
Air travel has experienced its golden age. Once upon a time, airplanes had much more space, stylish interiors, and brighter ...