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20.07.22
How our grandmothers quadrille men
19.07.22
How our grandmothers had fun in 1953
08.07.22
The most beautiful places in Germany
03-07-2022
Interesting facts about the real Alice in Wonderland
On July 4, 1865, the first edition of Lewis Carroll's book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"was published. "Alice in Wonderland" ...
02-07-2022
Ladies in yellow. Legalized prostitution in the Russian Empire
Until the beginning of the XVIII century, courtesans in Russia were on free bread. The first autocrat who introduced legislative ...
02-07-2022
South Korea's bloodiest maniac has been caught, but he will ...
The case of the Hwasong serial killer, over which the best detectives of South Korea have been fighting for 33 years, has finally ...
01-07-2022
Radioactive attraction: in Chernobyl, a control room was ...
Excursions to the exclusion zone are becoming more popular, so even more new objects are being opened for visitors. Now tourists ...
30-06-2022
Romano Canoni is an Italian photographer who became the "eyes ...
Italian photojournalist Romano Cagnoni has left this world at the age of 82. He was one of the most famous photographers of the XX ...
30-06-2022
11 actresses who brought Cleopatra to life on the big screen
There are a few historical figures who managed to escape the textbooks and become, one way or another, part of popular culture. ...
30-06-2022
5 ways to earn money for children in the USSR
By law, children under 14 were not allowed to work in the USSR. But what would a teenager not go to in order to have their own ...
27-06-2022
As the "Russian devils" bombed vakhabitov in the Holy city of ...
Interbellum (the period between the two world wars) will be remembered by many a local, but very interesting conflict. Some of them ...
26-06-2022
The right to choose: how abortion was treated in the USSR and ...
Mass protests are taking place in the USA against the background of the abolition of the right to abortion — there are clashes ...
26-06-2022
Peter the Great did these things with his own hands
The first Russian emperor was a man of many professions. Miraculously, some of the things he created have survived and are still ...
25-06-2022
The Walking Dead: a traditional parade in honor of the Day of ...
Although Halloween used to have a sacred meaning, now it has turned into a cheerful holiday of chaos and pranks. In Mexico, they do ...
25-06-2022
Amazingly crazy inventions of the XX century
If Uncle Fyodor had been an engineer, he would have said this: "In order to invent something necessary, you must first come up with ...
25-06-2022
Old photos you rarely see
We study the past in order to understand the present. And photos can help us a lot. However, even though textbooks and other ...
23-06-2022
Why the victory parade of 1945 to the mausoleum threw the ...
The culmination of the first Victory Parade June 24, 1945 was the moment when the Nazi banners were thrown to the foot of the Lenin ...
23-06-2022
What did the first stations of the Moscow metro look like in ...
The first line of the Kaganovich Moscow Metro opened on May 15, 1935. Trains ran from the Sokolniki station to the Park of Culture, ...
22-06-2022
Light up! Guy Fawkes Night in the UK was bright and hot
Guy Fawkes Night (or Bonfire Night) has long turned into a loud colorful holiday dedicated to the disclosure of the so-called ...
19-06-2022
The art of dance through the eyes of Russian artists
Russian artists considered dance to be one of the best ways to depict the colors and diversity of folk culture.
17-06-2022
The wolves of Wall Street have scented prey: Yale University ...
The Dutch bond of 1648, housed in the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University, differs from the tens of ...
17-06-2022
The main culprit of the death of the Titanic was not an iceberg
More than a century has passed since a huge liner, making a flight from Southampton to New York, sank in the waters of the North ...
17-06-2022
An archive of photographs of an unknown genius Masha ...
Masha Ivashintsova was a lost photographer of Leningrad. Throughout her life, from 1942 to 2000, she took pictures, but never ...
16-06-2022
The most expensive artists in the world
Every year, the Artprice portal publishes a list of the most expensive artists in the world, whose works are sold at auctions for ...
16-06-2022
What was the first Victoria's Secret show like?
As we have already written, Victoria’s Secret confirmed rumors that the famous show will be canceled for the first time in 25 ...
15-06-2022
The first woman in space: unknown facts about the flight of ...
Exactly 58 years ago, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, went into space. We want to remember her remarkable space expedition. ...
15-06-2022
The best works from the contest Historic Photographer of the ...
The organizers of the Historic Photographer of the Year 2019 competition summed up the results. The jury considered the works of ...
13-06-2022
Facts about the history of rock and roll that most people ...
The rock and roll genre has a colorful history rooted in the American experience. But what is the origin of rock music?
12-06-2022
Our beautiful ancestors
Looking at portraits from the distant past, we tend to believe that our ancestors were hardly beautiful, which is why the ...