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13-01-2022
Quite disturbing facts about the world
We don't know much about the world. We often hear that people have explored only a small part of what is hidden in the ocean, and ...
13-01-2022
18 inventions of the past that the world was simply not ready for
"If at first the idea does not seem absurd, it is hopeless," Albert Einstein said. However, it is worth recognizing that sometimes ...
12-01-2022
5 Disturbing Stories of Medieval and Renaissance Serial Killers
Sometimes what comes down to us as a story is actually a mixture of fact and fiction. Biased reports, hidden and not-so-hidden ...
12-01-2022
Donskoy album by Ivan Vasilyevich Boldyrev
May 12, 1570 is considered in Russia the day of the foundation of the Don Cossacks, which took shape that year in the form of an ...
11-01-2022
What kind of women did men want in 1904
The newspaper "Russian Leaf" was published in Moscow daily from 1890 to 1907. It was positioned as a "daily newspaper of politics, ...
11-01-2022
Photos from the 1969 Woodstock Festival allow you to see the ...
Fashion often returns — it's no secret to anyone. Today, for example, we can catch the trends of the 70s. The echoes of this era ...
11-01-2022
The incredible story of Lina Cavalieri: from a cafe singer to ...
The star of Lina Cavalieri lit up in the opera sky at the end of the XIX century. Having started her career in cafes and cabarets, ...
11-01-2022
What did the girls who posed for the most famous pin-up ...
We all know what a pin-up is, and often we are happy to consider the standards of female beauty of the middle of the XX century. As ...
10-01-2022
6 secret techniques of detectives that can be used in real life
If a person cannot tell you his story from the end to the beginning, he is probably lying: the Russian Detective TV channel has ...
10-01-2022
Our beautiful ancestors
Looking at the photos of the past, we tend to believe that our ancestors were hardly beautiful, the fault of which is the ...
10-01-2022
What secret do Victorian Era photographs keep
During the reign of Queen Victoria in Great Britain, with the advent of such a miracle as photography, quite strange practices were ...
10-01-2022
A skeleton of a baby of the II century with an elongated ...
During excavations on the Kerch Peninsula, archaeologists found the burial of a baby dated to the II century of the new era. A ...
09-01-2022
What did the beautiful Claudia Mori, the wife of Adriano ...
Adriano Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori have been over 70 for a long time, and they just adore each other as before. Although ...
08-01-2022
What was the fate of the world's first supermodel
She was called "Miss Manhattan" and the American Venus. In the 1910s, Audrey Manson was the most sought-after model in the world. ...
06-01-2022
Facial tattoos are a sacred tradition of Maori women
Maori women are traditionally tattooed on the chin during adolescence. This drawing, called "moko kauae", is considered a visual ...
06-01-2022
Mae West is a scandalous actress who became America's first ...
Once, as a joke, Mae West said that she should be given a license to invent sex, which she discovered for Americans. The name of ...
06-01-2022
"Larechnaya" Moscow, which we have lost
Yes, stalls and tents - it was convenient. You get out of the subway, and you have a choice of hundreds of goods: socks, thread, ...
06-01-2022
What do the famous handsome men who drove the girls of the ...
Every girl knew all these actors and musicians in the 1990s, and every second was a fervent fan of one of them. But time goes by, ...
06-01-2022
What was London like before Banksy: street art of the 80s
In the 80s, a craze for street art began in the British capital. More and more graffiti began to appear on the streets: from ...
04-01-2022
Women who ruled Paris from bed: a scandalous catalog with ...
In the 19th century, prostitution was legal in France. For the convenience of customers, each district of Paris published a booklet ...
04-01-2022
What the business class of a Swiss airline looked like in the 60s
The Swiss airline Swissair recently published a photo from its archives of the 60s. Passengers in those days flew like kings: ...
01-01-2022
Eunuchs of the Sultan's court: a brilliant career in exchange ...
In the Middle Ages in the countries of the East, a slave, demonstrating wisdom and loyalty to the ruler, could become one of the ...
01-01-2022
Mass burial of children with coins in their mouths found in ...
Even in densely populated areas of Europe, the earth hides a lot of archaeological mysteries that sometimes pop up quite ...
01-01-2022
5 secrets of ancient Egypt that we never knew about
For some of us, the pyramids of Egypt are no more than a tourist attraction. However, with scientific advances come exciting new ...
01-01-2022
What 6 celebrities looked like who didn't live up to ...
There are countless beauty standards in the world of cinema, and the industry prefers to hire beautiful people with perfect smiles ...
01-01-2022
The Incredible Lee Miller: how a famous model became a war ...
She built a dizzying modeling career in Paris and became the muse of Man Ray and Pablo Picasso. And then she exchanged bohemian ...















