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13-10-2024
Breakfast in bed: how was the first class of Air France ...
Recently in a network there was a rare series of photographs taken for advertising campaigns of the airline Air France in 1957. It ...
13-10-2024
How were the fates of the beauties from the portraits of ...
Looking at the paintings of famous portraitists, you involuntarily think about the heroines of these canvases. Who were they-the ...
12-10-2024
10 secrets of the Masons that they carefully guard
It is known that the Masons are one of the most secret organizations in the world. No one even knows exactly when they appeared and ...
12-10-2024
Ancient structure or hoax? Scientists still doubt the origins ...
From school we know that Stonehenge is a megalithic ancient monument located in Great Britain. Also, everyone has heard that the ...
12-10-2024
How peasants refused to drink, or Teetotal Riots in Russia in ...
Textbooks are silent about this war, although it was a real war, with gun volleys, dead and prisoners, with winners and losers, ...
12-10-2024
Ridiculous deaths of kings and monarchs
I choked, laughed, hit the doorjamb... the death of all-powerful monarchs was far from as pathetic as their life…
12-10-2024
How did the expression "Hold a candle" appear in Russia and ...
The expression "Hold a candle" is very popular with us. It can be called universal, because it is used in directly opposite ...
12-10-2024
A Midsummer night's dream... in the closet. Why in the Middle ...
Over the centuries, the concept of personal space was very abstract. Privacy for sleeping can afford very few. The poor lived in ...
12-10-2024
One day in the life of Ancient Greece
Children run naked in physical education, a woman watches the world through the window of a gynecologist, a man — at a hetaera or ...
11-10-2024
The phenomenon of the Russian hand-to-hand combat, or 70 wins ...
Even during the Napoleonic wars Russian hand to hand combat to induce the enemy of horror. But over time, the technique was ...
11-10-2024
Why did the prototype of the "great Gatsby" kill his wife, ...
It so happened that the American lawyers of the 20s of the last century, who defended gangsters in the courts, themselves did not ...
11-10-2024
How does the toilet work on the plane, or Why it was ...
The elderly Thompson couple, resting on the porch of their home in Florida, were unpleasantly surprised when a viscous liquid, ...
11-10-2024
25 interesting archive photos that take us back in time
Analyzing archival photos, it's as if you feel the very breath of time. History holds many mysteries, and the past always predicts ...
11-10-2024
Anna Pavlova and other beauties of Tsarist Russia in ...
This collection contains very different women: actresses and college girls, revolutionaries and aristocrats, ballerinas and ...
11-10-2024
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 ...
10-10-2024
What was the fate of Matryona, the beloved daughter of the ...
Grigory Rasputin was a controversial personality, and even a hundred years after his death, debates about his person continue. Some ...
10-10-2024
The story of the Lady of the Clock, or How a British family ...
Modern watches are fairly accurate devices. But in the 19th century everything was different. Mechanical watches lagged a little ...
09-10-2024
The history of the most unusual armor — the horned helmet ...
This is not a joke and not a fake. This is a real helmet of the beginning of the XVI century. Moreover, it is the helmet of the ...
09-10-2024
Causes of death recorded by priests in pre-revolutionary Russia
To monitor the statistics of mortality in the Russian Empire officially began only during the reign of Alexander II, who signed the ...
09-10-2024
"Aretino Poses– - medieval Kama Sutra from Europe, which ...
The genre of erotic art has been known since ancient times and it existed in different parts of the world. We are well aware of the ...
09-10-2024
How did the fashion for huge wigs appear in Europe and what ...
We are all familiar with the image of an aristocrat of the 17th-18th century. Stockings, a lush lace frill collar, buckled shoes, a ...
09-10-2024
25 truly fascinating stories that formed the basis of famous ...
The plots of these films seem so unexpected and cinematic that it is hard to believe that they are taken from real life, and the ...
09-10-2024
Dark history: how Edward Kennedy almost died at the hands of ...
The Kennedy family is haunted by the evil fate of murders, diseases and early deaths. Senator Edward Kennedy almost suffered the ...
08-10-2024
The life story of Frank Sheeran, nicknamed "The Irishman" — ...
Everyone knows what trade unions are and why these organizations exist. But few people know that not everywhere trade unions were ...
08-10-2024
The whole truth and lyricism of our history in the ...
Marc Riboud (1923-2016) was a French photographer and photojournalist with over 60 years of experience, one of the most famous ...
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08-10-2024
"Go and fight": how the fate of the children of ...
Being born into a famous family is both a great fortune and a cross to bear. Each offspring has its own attitude to their own ...