History

The country of poor billionaires: how inflation got Germans into strip clubs

09-11-2021

The country of poor billionaires: how inflation got Germans ...

After the First World War, Germany found itself in an economic hole. For the maintenance of the army, the government recruited ...

Faces of British crime of the XIX century

09-11-2021

Faces of British crime of the XIX century

What did the petty criminals of the XIX century look like? We offer you a look at the faces of English prisoners held in a penal ...

The heirs to the Russian throne: who are they-the modern Romanovs?

06-11-2021

The heirs to the Russian throne: who are they-the modern ...

By the beginning of 1917, the Russian Imperial House numbered 65 men, of whom 17 were killed. The rest of the Romanovs were able to ...

9 creations invented by women who changed the world for the better

06-11-2021

9 creations invented by women who changed the world for the ...

Women are accustomed to facing hardships, with which they face the labor market and in everyday life as a whole, which is ...

It seems that dinosaurs still roam the earth

05-11-2021

It seems that dinosaurs still roam the earth

The photographer from Paraguay Jorge Saenz creates a real Jurassic Park and demonstrates it on Instagram. The secret is in the ...

How teenagers have changed over the past 50 years

02-11-2021

How teenagers have changed over the past 50 years

Have you ever wondered how teenagers have changed over the past five decades? How have the clothes they wear changed? What have ...

6 reasons why you should print your photos

01-11-2021

6 reasons why you should print your photos

Photographer Brady Cabe shares his thoughts.

7 laptops that revolutionized the world of laptops

31-10-2021

7 laptops that revolutionized the world of laptops

Many of us use laptops that have long been considered their usual things, such as a phone or TV. The idea of creating a small ...

Versailles luxury: "Phantom of Love" is the most expensive Rolls-Royce in history

30-10-2021

Versailles luxury: "Phantom of Love" is the most expensive ...

The interior design of this Rolls-Royce Phantom car was ordered by businessman Clarence Gasque for his wife in 1926. The luxury ...

The hottest beauties of the 70s

30-10-2021

The hottest beauties of the 70s

The Instagram account @70sbabes, dedicated to girls in the style of the 70s of the last century, has more than 350 thousand ...

From the Renaissance to postmodernism: 500 years of interior design living room

28-10-2021

From the Renaissance to postmodernism: 500 years of interior ...

Interior design as a separate art appeared, probably in ancient Egypt to modern-day has passed through many stages. Designers ...

Why Krug, Nemtsov, Talkov and other famous people were killed

28-10-2021

Why Krug, Nemtsov, Talkov and other famous people were killed

Last year, 17 years after the death of Mikhail Krug, the Investigative Committee named the artist's killer, and also revealed the ...

What did the first beauty treatments look like

28-10-2021

What did the first beauty treatments look like

We have already got acquainted with the features of women's fitness a century ago, and today we will arrange a tour of the beauty ...

Ruth Orkin's legendary photo series "An American Woman in Florence"

27-10-2021

Ruth Orkin's legendary photo series "An American Woman in ...

Ruth Orkin (1921-1985) was an American photographer and filmmaker. She grew up in Hollywood, where her mother was a silent film ...

23 photos that came back to life thanks to Photoshop

25-10-2021

23 photos that came back to life thanks to Photoshop

Tatiana Dyachenko from Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) is engaged in a useful and necessary business: she returns people's memory ...

A vicious relationship: a lesbian club and the black comedy "The Murder of Sister George"

25-10-2021

A vicious relationship: a lesbian club and the black comedy ...

Society condemns homosexual relationships. And the more he condemns, the more interesting it becomes what happens behind closed ...

9 unexpected facts that will challenge your perception of time

25-10-2021

9 unexpected facts that will challenge your perception of time

Some events leave such a deep imprint on history and culture that they become markers of the era. Some of them seem very recent, ...

Then and now: how Moscow has changed in 150 years

24-10-2021

Then and now: how Moscow has changed in 150 years

We selected the most interesting photos of Moscow from different periods of the XIX and XX centuries and walked through these ...

Bach, Roosevelt and other historical figures who married relatives

23-10-2021

Bach, Roosevelt and other historical figures who married ...

In the old days, marrying a member of your own family was the norm. But did you know that even Queen Elizabeth married a relative?

Iconic photos of Max Alpert about the history of the USSR

23-10-2021

Iconic photos of Max Alpert about the history of the USSR

The people and events captured on film become part of history, telling us the truthful facts about how "it all really happened." In ...

15 times Kate Middleton and Megan Markle were dressed uniformly, and we can't decide who looked better

23-10-2021

15 times Kate Middleton and Megan Markle were dressed ...

No matter what the reason, Kate Middleton and Megan Markle seem to always have the right outfit. And quite often they shared ...

An amazing story about the boy Lev

23-10-2021

An amazing story about the boy Lev

A story that all of us should know. In one Moscow school, a boy stopped going to classes. He doesn't go for a week, Leva didn't ...

Princess Diana in bicycles in the photo of the 1990s

22-10-2021

Princess Diana in bicycles in the photo of the 1990s

Princess Diana, who was called the people's princess, was a favorite of the British. She was a princess, a volunteer and a fashion ...

Marina Tsvetaeva's great love: 5 beloved poetesses who changed her life

19-10-2021

Marina Tsvetaeva's great love: 5 beloved poetesses who ...

The whole life of the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva was spent on the edge of a nerve, every event was reflected in her work, every ...

The fate of the imprisoned "Stranger". By stage to Siberia

19-10-2021

The fate of the imprisoned "Stranger". By stage to Siberia

About the amazing fate of Sofia Kramskoy, the daughter of the artist I.N. Kramskoy, who posed for the painting "Stranger". About ...

Luxury tattoos of the Victorian era: cherubs, dragons and coats of arms

19-10-2021

Luxury tattoos of the Victorian era: cherubs, dragons and ...

We are used to seeing unbearably serious people in decent closed clothes in old photographs. But there are also such pictures where ...