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Quite disturbing facts about the world

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 ...

18 inventions of the past that the world was simply not ready for

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 ...

5 Disturbing Stories of Medieval and Renaissance Serial Killers

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 ...

Donskoy album by Ivan Vasilyevich Boldyrev

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 ...

What kind of women did men want in 1904

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, ...

Photos from the 1969 Woodstock Festival allow you to see the origins of modern fashion

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 ...

The incredible story of Lina Cavalieri: from a cafe singer to a world-famous opera diva

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, ...

What did the girls who posed for the most famous pin-up posters really look like

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 ...

6 secret techniques of detectives that can be used in real life

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 ...

Our beautiful ancestors

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 ...

What secret do Victorian Era photographs keep

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 ...

A skeleton of a baby of the II century with an elongated skull was found in Crimea

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 ...

What did the beautiful Claudia Mori, the wife of Adriano Celentano, look like in her youth

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 ...

What was the fate of the world's first supermodel

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. ...

Facial tattoos are a sacred tradition of Maori women

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 ...

Mae West is a scandalous actress who became America's first sex symbol

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 ...

"Larechnaya" Moscow, which we have lost

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, ...

What do the famous handsome men who drove the girls of the 1990s crazy look like now

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, ...

What was London like before Banksy: street art of the 80s

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 ...

Women who ruled Paris from bed: a scandalous catalog with Parisian courtesans of the XIX century

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 ...

What the business class of a Swiss airline looked like in the 60s

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: ...

Eunuchs of the Sultan's court: a brilliant career in exchange for male happiness

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 ...

Mass burial of children with coins in their mouths found in Poland

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 ...

5 secrets of ancient Egypt that we never knew about

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 ...

What 6 celebrities looked like who didn't live up to Hollywood beauty standards when they were young

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 ...

The Incredible Lee Miller: how a famous model became a war photographer

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 ...