09-03-2022
The World Tax and 9 more incredible taxes from around the world
Back in the XVIII century, Benjamin Franklin said that nothing is inevitable in life except death and taxes. Moreover, the latter ...
08-03-2022
Afghanistan in the 60-70s in the pictures of a French ...
In 1969, Afghanistan was not at all like the place torn apart by war and terrorists that it is today. French photographer Francois ...
08-03-2022
The eerie reality of Irish shelters where women who became ...
Clutching a small bag of things in her hand, Sheila O'Brien (Sheila O’Bryne) said goodbye to her parents, took a deep breath ...
07-03-2022
Working life: unknown color photos of everyday life in the ...
Semyon Osipovich Friedland was a Soviet photographer from Kiev. He was born in 1905 into a family of Jewish shoemakers. Originally ...
07-03-2022
Least True Movies Based on True Stories
Truth in cinema has more to do with performance than with correcting historical facts. If the action rings true and you believe the ...
06-03-2022
18 socialites of the 1920s
What were they like - the secular beauties of the past? What did famous ladies look like almost a hundred years ago, going out? How ...
06-03-2022
We give over the plan: Soviet youth of the 60s
Readers who bought the November 1967 issue of LIFE expected to see there black-and-white pictures of the revolution fifty years ...
06-03-2022
Rumors and the truth about Gagarin's death
On March 27, 1968, a MiG-15UTI piloted by Yuri Gagarin and instructor Vladimir Seregin crashed near the village of Novoselovo in ...
03-03-2022
Little-known photos of great events of the past
From the joy of the liberated Jews to the indignation of the Indian who saw the railway, these pictures will tell about what ...
01-03-2022
Kiev of the middle of the last century
Street names change, the streets themselves change, but the general "shell" of the city remains unchanged - today we will turn our ...
01-03-2022
"If I invest in this, my legs will break": a collection of ...
In the mid-1960s, the Dorcus Menwear brand created a collection of Dorcus He-Skirts for men. An internal memo from the company ...
28-02-2022
The Era of Human Zoos
Since ancient times, people of various nationalities and faiths have been engaged in the sanctioned slave trade. Most of the slaves ...
28-02-2022
How to transform a vintage train car in a stylish and ...
Until all of humanity together breaks mortgages, some enthusiasts build their own housing from what you can find. A couple of ...
27-02-2022
Everything you wanted to know about the kilt, but were too ...
Kilt - the traditional clothing of the Highlanders of Scotland - is the national pride of the country. In ancient times, this ...
27-02-2022
8 informative cards that can change the way you look at things
Where would you start if you were looking for a treasure? Well, based on what we learned in Jumanji, we probably need a map. In ...
26-02-2022
10 revolutionary ideas of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci lived at the turn of the XV and XVI centuries, but it feels like he flew there from the future. Many of his ...
26-02-2022
The Inverted Masonic Tower: The Well of Initiation
The mysterious system of underground tunnels in the Quinta da Regaleira palace and park complex, built at the beginning of the last ...
26-02-2022
Transgender past centuries: the boys wore skirts to school
It turns out that transgender ideas were in the air and in the past centuries. Hundreds of years ago in old Europe, you wouldn't ...
24-02-2022
O times! O morals! What erotic postcards looked like in the 20s
These erotic postcards were made in France at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unofficially, they were called "French ...
24-02-2022
Color centennial photographs of immigrants who arrived in the ...
Amazing photos clearly demonstrate the diversity and dissimilarity of different cultures of those people who arrived in the United ...
24-02-2022
Unique archival photos that will make you look at the past in ...
In our menu there is another assortment of archival photographs from different years. Some of them are amazing, some are funny, ...
23-02-2022
25 facts about the Titanic that may surprise you
The date of April 15, 1912 was marked in history by the largest maritime disaster of the XX century — in the Atlantic, on the way ...
22-02-2022
15 rare colorized photographs of Charlie Chaplin taken in the ...
On April 16, 1889, Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London into a family of variety actors. Sir "Charlie" Chaplin is an English ...
22-02-2022
8 classic pin-up beauties from the past
The retro genre is experiencing a renaissance and revolution, but classic movie stars have been around for a long time. Today, the ...
22-02-2022
10 Serial Killers Who Weren't Caught
In the underworld, serial killers have earned the most attention. Maybe because they are the most dangerous elements of the ...
21-02-2022
Mystical agricultural terraces of the Inca Moray
The list of spectacular and fascinating ruins of the Inca civilization can undoubtedly include Moray, an archaeological site in ...