19-12-2020
As Americans experienced its most devastating crisis — the ...
The United States entered the Great depression, one of the most devastating in the history of economic crises in the late 1920s and ...
16-12-2020
Trip to the Barber of a lifetime: the British for nearly half ...
Sam Farr from Bristol went to the same Barber, Joe Pace, who owns the Barber shop Giuseppe in bath, almost half a century, since ...
15-12-2020
In the United States in the early twentieth century, children ...
In the early twentieth century in the United States could send in the mail: a service cost less than a dollar, cheaper than a train ...
14-12-2020
Todd Webb — iconic photographer in the 1940s, which never ...
Photography of Todd Webb was in The gallery Curator Gallery in a box intended for the curator by bill Shapiro, a former editor of ...
14-12-2020
10 weird but fascinating problems of ancient people
From school history lessons we are introducing global issues faced by the people of the past — disease, hunger, and dirt, the hut ...
13-12-2020
Awkward moment: 10 failures in history
You fell, you were doused with water? Cat pee in your boots you bought expired milk? Do not worry and do not consider yourself a ...
13-12-2020
Moscow, 1958 photo by Erich Lessing
Erich Lessing was born in Vienna, however, in 1939, fleeing the Nazi regime, he emigrated. His father had already died, and the ...
13-12-2020
Looked like first class on the cruise ships before the era of ...
Before traveling on airplanes have become commonplace, cruise ships were the only way to travel great distances. And if you had ...
13-12-2020
As dwarf growth helped the family of Jewish musicians Ovitz ...
The history of the artistic family of Jewish musicians midgets from Romania who managed to survive Auschwitz and the horrific ...
13-12-2020
The butterfly effect in action: 5 real cases that changed the ...
Sometimes a slight and seemingly meaningless decision can change everything. Some of the most significant historical moments in the ...
12-12-2020
As before, moved the house in Moscow
About shifting architectural structures we know a lot. Including distant prehistory, when in 1455 Aristotle Fioravanti moved the ...
11-12-2020
The most famous in the history of the mysterious crop circles
Amazing imagination and nowhere holding a giant crop circles is one of the unsolved mysteries to this day. Someone explained the ...
11-12-2020
Eight strange and unexpected things that were on Board the ...
The tragic story of the wreck of the "Titanic" collided with an iceberg and sank more than a hundred years ago, became the basis of ...
11-12-2020
Stewardesses of the 60's had to be sexy and lonely
In the 1960s the flight attendant job in the United States was similar to the service of the gentleman's club high-altitude and ...
11-12-2020
Selling love: historical figures who were obsessed with ...
Many historical figures chose the "priestesses of love", but some of them were literally obsessed with them.
11-12-2020
The editors of LIFE magazine 1940-ies teaches how to kiss
In life not so much as the dramatic moments like the first kiss. That edition of LIFE magazine in 1942, it seems, thought the same ...
11-12-2020
9 pilots intentionally crashed the aircraft
Sunday morning, 26 September 1976 pilot Vladimir Serkov sent the An-2 aircraft without passengers to a five-storey residential ...
10-12-2020
Smile and courage: the flight attendants, who accomplished ...
Very often the flight attendants too romanticise it: distant countries, meeting new people, good mood, perfect uniform. But not ...
09-12-2020
9 Dec 1961: the day of the concert the Beatles came 18 people
Liverpool Quartet had to play for an audience that numbers barely surpassed them.
08-12-2020
Like beasts of the nineteenth century people were friends
Us always fascinating vintage images from the era of cumbersome cameras and elegant costumes. It seems that with animals the people ...
08-12-2020
Terribly uncomfortable shoes medieval women
In Europe in the XIV-XVII centuries was widespread women's shoes on a very thick sole — COPINE, zoccoli or panelle. It is ...
07-12-2020
10 sexual traditions of the Ancient world, which will lead to ...
Although conservatives argue that modern society has become too free in his manners compared to the pious ancestors, some of the ...
07-12-2020
Die inhabitants of Pompeii
Pompeii, the ancient Roman town near Naples, was buried under a layer of volcanic ash in the eruption of mount Vesuvius on 24 ...
06-12-2020
Wedding dress — 200 years of history
The history of wedding dresses over one hundred years. The bride's attire is constantly changing, following fashion: the dresses ...
06-12-2020
Daily life in Soviet Georgia in 1976 at the photos of the ...
Until 1936, the Russian-language Tbilisi city called Tiflis, and from August of that year, official form and became closer to ...
06-12-2020
The most impressive shots of life of American workers ...
26 September 1874 was born the famous American photographer Lewis Hein (Lewis Hine). In the early twentieth century he worked as a ...