History
09.08.20
The most absurd taxes in the world
27-07-2020
Pigeons and masks: the other side of the First world
28 July 1914 began one of the most widespread armed conflict in human history — the First world war, although to call her that ...
27-07-2020
Taburetovka, benzynowa and govenance: how to "survive" the ...
Thanks to the party my dear, there is no vodka in the output! But do not you cry, my Mary, — my Cologne I napiza! This kind of ...
26-07-2020
Burger: the history of food took the world by storm
July 27 is the birthday of the hamburger. Its name the main American sandwich obliged immigrants from Hamburg. However, in order to ...
26-07-2020
The Soviet youth of the 60's through the eyes of American ...
In November 1967, on the cover of LIFE magazine there was a picture from the series "Soviet youth" (Soviet Youth) photographer bill ...
23-07-2020
A single bottle of wine for the Musketeers, or As we have ...
24 July, 1802, there appeared Alexander Dumas the father, the author of the famous musketeer trilogy. In his birthday I want to ...
23-07-2020
The horrific pictures of the Polish artist, who was killed by ...
One of the most popular Polish artists of the XX century, zdzisław Beksiński (Zdzislaw Beksinski) are almost never given names to ...
23-07-2020
The Haitian massacre of 1804: why is it like to remember the ...
Among the many slogans protesting black Americans has been noticed banners reading «In Haiti did so in 1804. Came second ...
22-07-2020
Looked like Riga 30 years ago
The Baltic States in the Soviet years was something like their "little abroad" is a beautiful, clean streets of the Baltic cities, ...
21-07-2020
When you extend a tram line in Edinburgh has discovered a ...
The distant past looks in our present unexpected findings. During the extension of the tram line in Edinburgh, the workers came ...
21-07-2020
30 unique species of old Paris
Paris — the city is amazing and magical, with the streets on both banks of the Seine. Its historic centre was developed over many ...
20-07-2020
11 of the most interesting lenses in the history of photography
For nearly two centuries, the evolving art of photography, and with it the equipment that allows people to capture the world around ...
19-07-2020
What was Iraq before the war and sanctions
Iraq lives in a state of almost incessant conflict and under international sanctions since 1980, when the war began in neighbouring ...
19-07-2020
Looked like the 5 stages of intoxication 150 years ago
This series of photos perfectly illustrates how alcohol turns respectable man in the tottering wreck, belching a bad smell, curse ...
18-07-2020
A story of love, which was against the whole world
The love story and marriage of the first President of Botswana sir Seretse Khama and Englishwoman Ruth Williams caused an ...
18-07-2020
Dance off on the dance marathons of the 1920s and 30s years
During the great depression in the United States was a crazy fad called "dance marathons". They lasted for hours, weeks, even ...
17-07-2020
Mystery of the cursed bread: who is to blame, the CIA, Stalin ...
1951. A small town in the South of France suddenly strikes a strange illness. It starts almost innocently, headaches, nausea, ...
17-07-2020
Prostitutes of Japan XIX century
In the land of the Rising Sun since ancient times in many existed professional courtesans, geishas, and prostitutes-the oiran, with ...
16-07-2020
"Glavnokomanduyuschim Stalin" and other typos that made history
Since pre-revolutionary times to the present day for an unfortunate typo in the press sometimes paid career, and even life. We have ...
16-07-2020
Incredible Dubai: Pictures of the UAE before the opening of ...
Today Dubai — is a huge metropolis with skyscrapers, which looks futuristica any other city on earth. But in 1833, when Dubai ...
15-07-2020
"The emancipation of the workers": what was life like the ...
The beginning of the XX century — the time very vague. The lower classes, as he wrote later, comrade Lenin, could not, while ...
15-07-2020
Nuclear weapons testing — 75 years
Since the first nuclear explosion, codenamed Trinity, on 16 July 1945, was held for nearly two thousand atomic bomb tests, and most ...
14-07-2020
15 interesting facts that will make you wonder aloud unprintable
There are ways of doing things that no one thinks. But when one stumbles upon such facts, usually he freezes in amazement. We have ...
13-07-2020
Pate of rabbit brain and other tips for the care of children ...
In our time, when there are such wonderful inventions as disposable diapers, all kinds of radio and baby monitors, rubber nipples, ...
12-07-2020
The iconic rock band Queen
July 13, 1973 under the label EMI released the first album of the band Queen. Most of the songs written by the band members — ...
12-07-2020
10 interesting facts about Hollywood
96 years ago, July 13, 1923 on the slope of mount Lee over the Californian hills appeared the inscription Hollywood. It was ...
12-07-2020
Previously unpublished photographs of the Rolling Stones
July 12, 1962 in London hosted the first concert of group Rolling Stones, which for many years vied in popularity with The Beatles. ...