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17-10-2025
Why breast of French Queen Marie Antoinette is remembered ...
You will hardly remember how you looked the wife of the king of France Louis XVI Marie Antoinette, 18th century. But we can ...
17-10-2025
Why in Russia women were forbidden to sleep naked
In pre-Christian times in Russia, nudity was treated as calmly as in ancient Hellas. A beautiful, healthy naked body was considered ...
17-10-2025
Gave birth to 69 children, left her husband, who was the most ...
In the Guinness Book of records referred to the most incredible achievements. Started in the Russian Valentina Vasilyeva, which for ...
17-10-2025
Blond Sirte: the vanished people of the shamans who lived in ...
Among the Russian who migrated to the North, there existed legends about the mysterious people of the white-eyed Chud, who was ...
16-10-2025
Size matters: oh, these women's hairstyles of the 60s
Fashion is constantly changing, and this is especially noticeable in archival photographs that tell about how people looked in the ...
16-10-2025
15 historical facts that allow you to look at time from a ...
It would seem that execution using the guillotine is something from the very distant past. But it was canceled in the same year ...
16-10-2025
How did the image of Gella appear in Bulgakov’s novel ...
The vampire woman Gella in the novel “The Master and Margarita” is a secondary or even secondary hero. Nevertheless, readers ...
16-10-2025
The smile of absolute evil
It would seem that what could be scary in such a simple and sincere expression of emotion as a smile? However, when you see a smile ...
16-10-2025
The most dizzying photos from the construction of New York ...
In 1884, the construction of the first skyscraper was started in Chicago. It had as many as 10 floors! However, at the beginning of ...
16-10-2025
On the waves of memory: how we lived and played in the ...
The yard of our childhood was the concentration of everything, all the fun and games, all the rules and concepts, the yardstick of ...
15-10-2025
What was the ideal of male beauty in Rus'
Women from different eras are very similar in their views on life. However, there are some major differences. For example, the ...
15-10-2025
"The dove" for the elite: prostitution at the highest level ...
Heavy scent of expensive perfume mixed with cigarette smoke filled the air. In the corridors with a luxurious interior, heard the ...
15-10-2025
Like a wild people in Germany were accustomed to the vaunted ...
It is known that the Germans — this is the most prone to the order and discipline nation on the planet. But, on the other ...
15-10-2025
20 mysterious historical pictures that you won't understand ...
Sometimes you look at the picture and think — what is going on here, why is it here, how did it happen and what kind of things ...
15-10-2025
Why were witches depicted riding a broom?
For centuries, witches have been the heroes of legends, fairy tales and superstitions. They were depicted in different ways, but ...
15-10-2025
30 colorized historical photos that tell about the events of ...
Colorization is a unique method of "coloring" pictures, which gives historical photographs a second life, and sends us on a journey ...
14-10-2025
The success story of Ida Rosenthal - the woman who gave the ...
The story of Ida Rosenthal is a clear example of the fact that anyone can succeed, regardless of who he was born. Thanks to the ...
14-10-2025
Jacob Riis: An immigrant photographer who shot an unknown ...
In 1870, 21-year-old Jacob Riis immigrated from his native Denmark to the rapidly developing and growing New York. The young man ...
14-10-2025
When her husband the Emperor, but a pervert: as the ...
The daughter of Kyiv Prince Vsevolod Eupraxia was married at the age of 12. Kiev chronicler her laconic mother, became a wife, ...
14-10-2025
Looked like the first ever remote control for the TV
When people only dreamed of the remote control. Now that we've switched the channels on the TV with a plastic thing that is ...
14-10-2025
Chekhov and Lika mizinova: an unusual story of unrequited ...
The most famous play by Anton Chekhov, no doubt, became "the Seagull". Many people know the plot of the story, but few people know ...
14-10-2025
Alaska Eskimos in priceless historical photographs of 1903 - 1930
The Lomen family from Minnesota moved to the city of Nome in 1903, at a time when thousands of prospectors rushed to Alaska in ...
14-10-2025
Why Sophia Loren didn't shave her armpits at the peak of ...
Despite the fact that Sophia Loren is now 88 years old, she is still popular and discussed. There are a huge number of photographs ...
14-10-2025
The first woman millionaire Sarah Breedlove: the path from a ...
Black American Sarah Breedlove (Sarah Breedlove), which many know as Madam C. J. Walker — a true embodiment of the idea of ...
13-10-2025
The biggest woman and the smallest man - the story of one ...
There is often an old photograph on the Internet in which a large lady with a bouffant hairstyle is holding a tiny man in a suit ...
13-10-2025
The story of the Lady of the Clock, or How a British family ...
Modern watches are fairly accurate devices. But in the 19th century everything was different. Mechanical watches lagged a little ...