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Rare color photos of pre-war Germany

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 ...

Artist LFHCS Crafts Spectacular Landscapes Where Earth Meets The Universe

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 ...

Why is the hero of Russian fairy tales Ivan the fool and what is the secret of his popularity

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 ...

The pre-revolutionary history of Russia in color photos

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 ...

26 death masks of famous historical figures

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 ...

"Morning of the Streltsy execution": as Peter and I staged in red square bloodbath

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 ...

Japan 50 years

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 ...

The oldest profession in the free city: a history of the red light district in Amsterdam

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 ...

Colored century photographs of immigrants who arrived in the USA, reveal the contrast of cultures

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 ...

Negative and positive, no alternatives - 15 first photographs of William Talbot

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 ...

Soviet epoch in photos Markov-Grinberg

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 ...

"Sweet Life" by Swedish Marilyn Monroe

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 ...

The ridiculous death of the King of Sweden, who was killed by a bun

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 ...

The greatest car race in history: 20 thousand kilometers on carts with an engine

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 ...

The history of the garter, the most exciting accessory of a woman's closet

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 ...

Why didn't women in Rus' cut their hair?

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 ...

Cotton wool, solarium, tea bags and 12 more inventions that appeared thanks to the First World War

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 ...

13 Hilarious Pics From People’s ‘Blunder Years’ That’ll Forever Live Online As A Cringy Reminder

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.

Thomas Edison's 15 Inventions that Changed the World

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 ...

Paris 1923 - epicenter of art and progress

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 ...

What 100 years of" improvement " of pedigreed dogs have led to

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 ...

Why unsightly "boots" became the most popular shoes in the USSR

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 ...

Strange covers of Soviet children's books that can break an adult brain

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 ...

What did the very first fire extinguishers look like?

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 ...

Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty

10-02-2024

Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty

Students, workers, collective farmers. From the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova… They are all very ...

Where the children of the Sodder family disappeared: a mystery that has no answer even after 76 years

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 ...