History
09.11.25
The blue color has its own legends
08-11-2025
Why were cats so loved and revered in ancient Egypt?
The inhabitants of ancient Egypt treated many animals with great respect, but cats have always been especially important to them. ...
08-11-2025
A fight at a wedding — why was it mandatory in Russia
In the modern world, weddings with matchmaking, bride redemption, toastmaster and loaf have long been relegated to the background. ...
08-11-2025
The story of the robber Thomas Blood, pardoned by the king ...
British law has always been harsh on criminals, especially those who encroached on royal property. An attempt to rob the treasury ...
08-11-2025
Alcoholism and treatment with mercury: how women lived in the ...
In 1889, in Moscow, there were 111 public houses, 1898 — 68. By 1904, the number had increased to 73, and lived there more than a ...
08-11-2025
You can see right through the story: the first patients on X-ray
November 8, 1895 is considered the day of the discovery of X-rays by professor and physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. However, few people ...
08-11-2025
Mansa Musa is the richest man in history
The African supreme ruler Musa Keita I is considered the richest man of all time - richer than you can imagine. In the 14th ...
08-11-2025
The Story of Mineko Iwasaki, Japan's Most Famous Geisha
The dramatic film "Memoirs of a Geisha" directed by Rob Marshall is familiar to many. Far fewer have read Arthur ...
08-11-2025
Arab poetesses of Kaina: slaves who conquered the great Caliphs
In addition to decent women and prostitutes, for many centuries there was a third, special kind of ladies-courtesans. In Europe, ...
08-11-2025
40 photos of vintage vending machines that you didn't even ...
In this collection of photos you will see the oldest and most unusual vending machines in the world. Modern vending machines have ...
07-11-2025
35 strange and entertaining facts from the Weird History ...
The "Strange Story" account on Twitter recently turned ten years old, but, to the delight of 177 thousand subscribers, the flow of ...
07-11-2025
Take a cigar and take a quick photo: the secret of one of the ...
"The portrait of Winston Churchill changed my life. I understood that this was an important photo, but I could not even dream that ...
07-11-2025
Reincarnation exists? Twins of celebrities from the past
The belief that people live on land, some lives seem quite reasonable when you look at these pictures. Recently at the University ...
07-11-2025
Why were the inhabitants of medieval Europe afraid to wash
Even from school history lessons, we remember that in the Middle Ages, European cities were real cesspools. Sewage flowed through ...
07-11-2025
Myths and legends of the Internet: exposing popular ...
Today, the network is wandering a lot «sensational» of photos from the past designed to capture the imagination of users. ...
07-11-2025
Skating, weaving bast and astrology: what other hobby was ...
Despite the constant employment and state care, many Russian rulers were still different hobby. Some like to fish, someone was a ...
07-11-2025
The very first cars in the history of the largest brands
On October 17, 1902, the first Cadillac car was released in Detroit. The car developed a maximum speed of about 48 kilometers per ...
07-11-2025
Lesbian novels of the mid-twentieth century pulp fiction that ...
Today cheap romance paperback no one takes seriously. This reading is taken to vacation, to read and to ruthlessly discarded. But ...
06-11-2025
The Boy in the Bubble: A dozen years waiting to die
This case is very important in the history of medicine — not only because of the sad fate of the boy David Phillip Vetter, but ...
06-11-2025
How did the expression "Hussars don't take money!" appear?
The phrase "Hussars don't take money!", which is well known to us from frivolous anecdotes about Lieutenant Rzhevsky, appeared not ...
06-11-2025
Why pirates are depicted with parrots
In our view, a classic pirate is a stern man with a wooden leg, an eye patch, armed to the teeth and with a parrot on his shoulder. ...
06-11-2025
"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 ...
06-11-2025
"In Ancient Rome, no sex!": as previously fought for morality
Human history knows two trends: the first is craving for sex and the second — the struggle with sex. Why do so — let him think ...
06-11-2025
Fabulous photochromes of 1900s New York
The stunning photochromic postcards released by the Detroit Publishing Company showcase 1900s New York in all its colorful splendor.
06-11-2025
Hweren concentration camp in North Korea
For modern people, a concentration camp is something terrible, ugly and, fortunately, sunk into oblivion. Nazi concentration camps ...
06-11-2025
Three extra vertebrae. On the women's backs in the paintings ...
All art is full of eroticism. Otherwise, simply can not be. But there are artists whose paintings eroticism is immediately visible, ...
05-11-2025
Dancing till you drop at dance marathons of the 1920s and 30s
During the Great Depression, a crazy fad called "dance marathons" arose in the States. They lasted for hours, weeks, even months. ...