History
13-02-2024
Rare color photos of pre-war Germany
Long before Germany was destroyed the First and Second world wars, it was a country of peaceful beauty, Gothic splendour and ...
13-02-2024
Artist LFHCS Crafts Spectacular Landscapes Where Earth Meets ...
LFHCS has a knack for turning the ordinary into something extraordinary. Their art usually mixes the charm of vintage cars and ...
13-02-2024
Why is the hero of Russian fairy tales Ivan the fool and what ...
The most famous and beloved hero of Russian folk tales is Ivan the Fool, or as he is affectionately called - Ivanushka. Despite an ...
13-02-2024
The pre-revolutionary history of Russia in color photos
Olga Shirnina network under the name Klimbim, good familiar to users kolonisierung historical imagery. The talented colorist, she ...
13-02-2024
26 death masks of famous historical figures
Death masks were made from the middle ages until the nineteenth century. It was not just a photo in memory of the man, and the cast ...
12-02-2024
"Morning of the Streltsy execution": as Peter and I staged in ...
In 1881 the artist Vasily Surikov graduated from the painting "Morning of the Streltsy execution". It depicts Tsar Peter I, taking ...
12-02-2024
Japan 50 years
What was Japan in the 50s? How people dressed on the streets? How things have changed since then, the Japanese city? And what new ...
12-02-2024
The oldest profession in the free city: a history of the red ...
On the eve of the legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands in the network surfaced historical photos of the red light ...
12-02-2024
Colored century photographs of immigrants who arrived in the ...
Amazing photos clearly demonstrate the variety and diversity of different cultures of those people who arrived in the United States ...
12-02-2024
Negative and positive, no alternatives - 15 first photographs ...
On February 11, 1800, William Henry Fox Talbot was born in Wiltshire, Great Britain, a physicist and chemist, and it is to him that ...
12-02-2024
Soviet epoch in photos Markov-Grinberg
The name of this legendary correspondent forever immortalized in textbooks devoted to the domestic photograph, along with such ...
12-02-2024
"Sweet Life" by Swedish Marilyn Monroe
Even if you have not watched the famous film of the great film director Federico Fellini "Sweet Life", then you should have seen ...
12-02-2024
The ridiculous death of the King of Sweden, who was killed by ...
Swedish King Adolf Fredrik came to the throne in 1751 thanks to the Russian Empress Elizabeth, but never became an outstanding ...
11-02-2024
The greatest car race in history: 20 thousand kilometers on ...
On the cold morning of February 12, 1908, a quarter of a million people poured out onto the streets of New York to see the start of ...
11-02-2024
The history of the garter, the most exciting accessory of a ...
Women's dress for centuries, gradually turned into a fetish, a symbol of victory of love. Fashion historian Mariana Skuratovskaya ...
11-02-2024
Why didn't women in Rus' cut their hair?
Since ancient times, women in Rus' have been adorned with long braids that were never cut. Only at the beginning of the 20th ...
11-02-2024
Cotton wool, solarium, tea bags and 12 more inventions that ...
Wars bring misery and destruction to humanity — this obvious fact cannot be disputed. However, we must be fair and admit that it ...
11-02-2024
13 Hilarious Pics From People’s ‘Blunder Years’ ...
In search of our identity, we sometimes make decisions that later in life we aren't particularly proud of.
11-02-2024
Thomas Edison's 15 Inventions that Changed the World
On February 11, 1847, Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, an incredibly successful inventor, scientist and businessman who ...
11-02-2024
Paris 1923 - epicenter of art and progress
The author of these unique historical photographs is Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. He was born in 1863 in the suburbs of Paris, grew ...
10-02-2024
What 100 years of" improvement " of pedigreed dogs have led to
The age of breeding" improvements " of pure breeds has turned once healthy dogs into deformed animals. There is an opinion that ...
10-02-2024
Why unsightly "boots" became the most popular shoes in the USSR
For today's youth canvas boots — this is ridiculous and archaic shoes, which can be seen at the army photo. But for the older ...
10-02-2024
Strange covers of Soviet children's books that can break an ...
How boring we live. Here before there was no Internet, no annual "Avengers", and the people lived cheerfully and even with a ...
10-02-2024
What did the very first fire extinguishers look like?
On February 7, 1863, engineer Alan Cray in Virginia, USA, officially patented the first fire extinguisher. The first use of glass ...
10-02-2024
Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty
Students, workers, collective farmers. From the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova… They are all very ...
10-02-2024
Where the children of the Sodder family disappeared: a ...
On Christmas Night in 1945, the Sodder family's house in Fayetteville, West Virginia, was engulfed in flames. The house burned to ...