History

Warm and colorful pictures of everyday life in Uzbekistan in 1956

19-03-2022

Warm and colorful pictures of everyday life in Uzbekistan in 1956

In 1956, Jacques Dupakier went to Tashkent, the capital of the Uzbek SSR, where he filmed the daily life of the city and its ...

Lost in History: 8 Photos That Shed New Light on Our Past

17-03-2022

Lost in History: 8 Photos That Shed New Light on Our Past

While many animals rely on other senses—such as smell in dogs or hearing in bats—humans depend on sight. We build our lives ...

21 historical facts that you were not told about at school

15-03-2022

21 historical facts that you were not told about at school

Sometimes even the smallest and seemingly insignificant detail can completely change the vision of the story. In addition, it is ...

Scary Hunt: the most famous witches of the Middle Ages

15-03-2022

Scary Hunt: the most famous witches of the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages were a very difficult time for women. Any passerby could accuse the girl of witchcraft, and most often empty words ...

16 must-see Hermitage masterpieces

14-03-2022

16 must-see Hermitage masterpieces

It is assumed that it will take about ten years to see all the exhibits from the collection of the most famous museum in St. ...

The youngest mother in history is a 5-year-old girl from Peru

14-03-2022

The youngest mother in history is a 5-year-old girl from Peru

At the age of five, Lina Medina seemed to suffer from some kind of disease, because her stomach was rapidly increasing in size. ...

Goodbye, Playboy: The most revealing covers we won't see anymore

14-03-2022

Goodbye, Playboy: The most revealing covers we won't see anymore

The American men's magazine Playboy will cease to be published in print. There has been talk about this for a long time, since 2019 ...

The tragedy of Morro Castle is a disaster on a liner, arranged by a national hero of the USA

13-03-2022

The tragedy of Morro Castle is a disaster on a liner, ...

The best means for profit in the years of prohibition is alcohol. This simple maxim was adopted in 1930 by the American company ...

10 Impressive Castles You'll Definitely Want to Live In

12-03-2022

10 Impressive Castles You'll Definitely Want to Live In

Medieval architects can rightfully be considered geniuses in their field. The castles they built combined practicality and wealth ...

14 famous people and their exact copies from other centuries

12-03-2022

14 famous people and their exact copies from other centuries

Rumor has it that every person in the world has a doppelgänger. We can't test every person on the planet to prove it, but when we ...

How the first Aryan Borghild sex doll was invented in Nazi Germany

12-03-2022

How the first Aryan Borghild sex doll was invented in Nazi ...

The Nazi occupation of France in 1940 led to multiple sexual contacts of German soldiers with Parisian prostitutes, and as a ...

34 amazing examples of coloring old archival photos

11-03-2022

34 amazing examples of coloring old archival photos

From a rare photo of Mark Twain to an incredible bird's-eye view of the Normandy landings, we invite you to take a tour of ...

29 proofs that the disco era was the craziest in history

11-03-2022

29 proofs that the disco era was the craziest in history

The seventies of the last century are strongly associated with club culture and disco music. It was a time of pleasure, night out ...

The costume ball of 1903 is the most famous masquerade of the last Emperor of Russia

11-03-2022

The costume ball of 1903 is the most famous masquerade of the ...

In 1903, on February 11 and 13, during the reign of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, the famous costume ball was held in honor ...

Cross yourself. Pray. Have fun

10-03-2022

Cross yourself. Pray. Have fun

A selection of retro photographs from the 20th century that make it clear that the love of God does not exclude the love of ...

12 interesting and little-known photos from our history

09-03-2022

12 interesting and little-known photos from our history

Today you have a seat on the train to the past, to the most touching, beautiful, and intriguing moments of history. Call it modern ...

Oriental beauty Princess Lalla nuzha of Morocco and its unusual wedding makeup

09-03-2022

Oriental beauty Princess Lalla nuzha of Morocco and its ...

In 1964, the 24 year-old sister of the king of Morocco, Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla nuzha married Ahmed Ben Mohammed Osman, a ...

The World Tax and 9 more incredible taxes from around the world

09-03-2022

The World Tax and 9 more incredible taxes from around the world

Back in the XVIII century, Benjamin Franklin said that nothing is inevitable in life except death and taxes. Moreover, the latter ...

Afghanistan in the 60-70s in the pictures of a French photographer

08-03-2022

Afghanistan in the 60-70s in the pictures of a French ...

In 1969, Afghanistan was not at all like the place torn apart by war and terrorists that it is today. French photographer Francois ...

The eerie reality of Irish shelters where women who became pregnant out of wedlock were hidden: Sheila's story

08-03-2022

The eerie reality of Irish shelters where women who became ...

Clutching a small bag of things in her hand, Sheila O'Brien (Sheila O’Bryne) said goodbye to her parents, took a deep breath ...

Working life: unknown color photos of everyday life in the USSR 1950s

07-03-2022

Working life: unknown color photos of everyday life in the ...

Semyon Osipovich Friedland was a Soviet photographer from Kiev. He was born in 1905 into a family of Jewish shoemakers. Originally ...

Least True Movies Based on True Stories

07-03-2022

Least True Movies Based on True Stories

Truth in cinema has more to do with performance than with correcting historical facts. If the action rings true and you believe the ...

18 socialites of the 1920s

06-03-2022

18 socialites of the 1920s

What were they like - the secular beauties of the past? What did famous ladies look like almost a hundred years ago, going out? How ...

We give over the plan: Soviet youth of the 60s

06-03-2022

We give over the plan: Soviet youth of the 60s

Readers who bought the November 1967 issue of LIFE expected to see there black-and-white pictures of the revolution fifty years ...

Rumors and the truth about Gagarin's death

06-03-2022

Rumors and the truth about Gagarin's death

On March 27, 1968, a MiG-15UTI piloted by Yuri Gagarin and instructor Vladimir Seregin crashed near the village of Novoselovo in ...

Little-known photos of great events of the past

03-03-2022

Little-known photos of great events of the past

From the joy of the liberated Jews to the indignation of the Indian who saw the railway, these pictures will tell about what ...