History

Blue denim shorts a favorite among American women 70 years

05-10-2020

Blue denim shorts a favorite among American women 70 years

1970-ies in the United States was marked by sexual liberation, rejection of military service, the struggle for women's rights. And ...

Death defying crazy stunts in retrofuture

04-10-2020

Death defying crazy stunts in retrofuture

Looking at these old photographs, you might think that the people of the past was absolutely no instinct of self-preservation. In ...

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

01-10-2020

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

When you read something about history, whether a memoir, a textbook or article, the mind develops its own unique view about how it ...

Unique fire mummies of Cabana

01-10-2020

Unique fire mummies of Cabana

Mummification is a relatively well-studied ancient ritual of preserving the dead bodies — mostly associated with the embalmed ...

A lost "Golden age": 44 documentary photos by Vladimir Sokolaev

29-09-2020

A lost "Golden age": 44 documentary photos by Vladimir Sokolaev

If Vladimir Sokolaev once took up a camera and realized that photography is his life's work, we would have lost a very unique and ...

Color images of the First world war, which made like yesterday

28-09-2020

Color images of the First world war, which made like yesterday

For over a hundred years have passed since the end of the First world war. Since then, there have been many generations. When ...

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

27-09-2020

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

Since childhood, the Wild West associated with vast prairies, for which the jump of the brave the cowboys, firing from the ...

Portraits of the Nazi guards of Auschwitz 1940-1945 years

26-09-2020

Portraits of the Nazi guards of Auschwitz 1940-1945 years

After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 began the construction of camps for thousands of Polish political prisoners ...

23 amazing scenes of Stanley Kubrick

26-09-2020

23 amazing scenes of Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick is a famous Director and screenwriter, had a huge impact on American cinema. His talent was already evident at the ...

Launch the time machine: 25 photos of grandparents, who recreated their grandchildren

26-09-2020

Launch the time machine: 25 photos of grandparents, who ...

Of course, none of you have not seen their grandparents at a very young age. But, leafing through pages of a family album, we ...

Classic elegance Dior: sophisticated designs in 1940-1960-ies on the streets of Paris

25-09-2020

Classic elegance Dior: sophisticated designs in 1940-1960-ies ...

Willie Maiwald grew up in a family engaged in the hotel business. But as sometimes happens, the young man realized that his path ...

The nature of the Wild West 150 years ago

25-09-2020

The nature of the Wild West 150 years ago

Thanks to the westerns, the Wild West seems to be full of romance and associated with cowboys, Mustangs faithful, and smart colts. ...

From corsets to thin stripes: how to change underwear in 100 years

23-09-2020

From corsets to thin stripes: how to change underwear in 100 ...

From the beginning of XX century the most intriguing and intimate part of a woman's wardrobe has undergone not only significant and ...

Crazy old pictures Teens Florida

23-09-2020

Crazy old pictures Teens Florida

In the fall of 1972, bill Yates traveled through the countryside in the vicinity of Tampa, Florida. At that time, he studied ...

Portraits of children of the nineteenth century, sentenced to hard labor and prison for petty theft

20-09-2020

Portraits of children of the nineteenth century, sentenced to ...

The color portraits of the 1870-ies, colored colorization expert Tom Marshall, the children look into the lens too hard and ...

"Stairway of the dead" in the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen

20-09-2020

"Stairway of the dead" in the Austrian concentration camp ...

The Mauthausen concentration camp was located 20 kilometers East of Linz, the administrative centre of Upper Austria. It was the ...

USSR in miniatures: another piece of nostalgia from Israeli artist

20-09-2020

USSR in miniatures: another piece of nostalgia from Israeli ...

Wonderful miniature artist Zoya Cherkassky has always attracted interest, because they are like a time machine for a whole ...

Princess midnight: mystery Evdokia Galitzine, the mistress of the St. Petersburg salon

18-09-2020

Princess midnight: mystery Evdokia Galitzine, the mistress of ...

Princess Evdokiya Golitsyna was one of the most famous personalities of the nineteenth century. Well-educated and charming, she ...

1930-1943 years: kaleidoscopic dancing Busby Berkeley

18-09-2020

1930-1943 years: kaleidoscopic dancing Busby Berkeley

Choreography by Busby Berkeley (Busby Berkeley) was similar to the dance in a kaleidoscope, so high was the mathematical accuracy ...

Gangs of new York: how it was

16-09-2020

Gangs of new York: how it was

Probably, everyone in new York is associated with Manhattan, Central Park, statue of Liberty, Brooklyn bridge, skyscrapers... But ...

Brilliant pictures of a pioneer of photojournalism Kurt Hutton

15-09-2020

Brilliant pictures of a pioneer of photojournalism Kurt Hutton

Photographer Kurt Hutton (Kurt or Hubshman) was born in Germany in 1893. He began his career as a photographer with the German ...

History Aug Landmesser — the person in the picture, not raised his hand in a Nazi salute

15-09-2020

History Aug Landmesser — the person in the picture, not ...

Many of you probably saw on the Internet a famous photograph in 1936, which shows the arms crossed on the chest the hands of the ...

Love in the fire of revolution: Inessa Armand — Muse of Vladimir Lenin

15-09-2020

Love in the fire of revolution: Inessa Armand — Muse of ...

When it comes to women of Vladimir Lenin, imagination immediately draws an image of Nadezhda Krupskaya, famous for fantastic ...

Amazing facts about the life of Agatha Christie

14-09-2020

Amazing facts about the life of Agatha Christie

On 15 September, 1890 in the British County of Devon was born Agatha Miller — today we know it as a detective genius, one of the ...

13 Actresses who shone not only beauty

14-09-2020

13 Actresses who shone not only beauty

Nowadays people are easily distracted by the glamour and the veneer of young Actresses who can not differ a great talent, but still ...

Princess of Thailand Katia Desnica: Russian girl for whom the Prince Chakrabon renounced polygamy

14-09-2020

Princess of Thailand Katia Desnica: Russian girl for whom the ...

17-year-old orphan Katya Desnica he studied in St. Petersburg at the courses of sisters of mercy and wanted to go to the front. But ...