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40 vintage photos showing how strange the world used to be

03-03-2024

40 vintage photos showing how strange the world used to be

It seems we live in a crazy world today, but believe it or not, we have always lived in a crazy world. Judging by these photographs ...

The fate of the last female thief in law Aglaya Demidova, who died because of love

03-03-2024

The fate of the last female thief in law Aglaya Demidova, who ...

As you know, women cannot be thieves in law. There can be no exceptions to the rules, even if we are talking about the most ...

Kharkov under German occupation in 1918

03-03-2024

Kharkov under German occupation in 1918

March 3, 1918 between the Bolsheviks and the Germans had signed the Brest peace Treaty, according to which the territory together ...

How changing standards of male beauty for over 100 years

03-03-2024

How changing standards of male beauty for over 100 years

Men have always strived to be handsome, stylish, successful, and, of course, like the ladies. If demanded by fashion, they became ...

What would Nefertiti, Beethoven and other historical figures look like today

03-03-2024

What would Nefertiti, Beethoven and other historical figures ...

The artist Becca Saladin tries not only to restore the true appearance of the great rulers of the past from paintings and ...

Picnic on the Pyramids: tourists in Giza during the British occupation

03-03-2024

Picnic on the Pyramids: tourists in Giza during the British ...

In the July heat, Egypt was finally opened to Russians: Vladimir Putin canceled the decree of 2015 that banned charter flights to ...

The Jewish cartel "Zvi Migdal" — a cynical pimps in bales

03-03-2024

The Jewish cartel "Zvi Migdal" — a cynical pimps in bales

Ethnic organized crime groups have existed in many Nations. As for the Jewish mafia, the chosen people did not miss his chance as ...

How a noblewoman and decadent Larisa Reisner became a sex symbol of the October Revolution

03-03-2024

How a noblewoman and decadent Larisa Reisner became a sex ...

This woman's life was very short, but so eventful that there would be enough events in it for several lifetimes. Having everything ...

What is the meaning of card suits: myths and reality

03-03-2024

What is the meaning of card suits: myths and reality

Each of us at least once were holding playing cards, and some people give them a significant part of the time playing for fun or ...

75 most sexy shots in movie history

02-03-2024

75 most sexy shots in movie history

Sex and sexuality in the cinema — important components. They do not always play a key role, but very often the sex scenes are ...

Aloud about the delicate: how toilet paper appeared and what they did before it

02-03-2024

Aloud about the delicate: how toilet paper appeared and what ...

Every second, 1,000 rolls of toilet paper are consumed in the world, which is 30 billion pieces per year. Pipifax, for some reason, ...

5 misconceptions about the Middle Ages that everyone believes for some reason

02-03-2024

5 misconceptions about the Middle Ages that everyone believes ...

The Middle Ages is one of the most interesting and mysterious eras in the history of mankind. Many - especially fantasy lovers - ...

What were the progenitors of modern sports simulators?

01-03-2024

What were the progenitors of modern sports simulators?

Society's obsession with fitness may seem like a phenomenon of the present, but these photos prove the opposite — it all started ...

Mademoiselle Gabriel: the story of a charming “half-woman”

01-03-2024

Mademoiselle Gabriel: the story of a charming “half-woman”

There are many examples of how people with serious physical disabilities have achieved success in life. One of the most amazing ...

Kiev of the middle of the last century

01-03-2024

Kiev of the middle of the last century

Street names change, the streets themselves change, but the general "shell" of the city remains unchanged — today we will turn ...

Vintage luxury: as passenger flights looked in the 50s

01-03-2024

Vintage luxury: as passenger flights looked in the 50s

In today's world you kind of forget about how it was cool to fly on iron bird in the sky. But in the 50's people have not been ...

Historical characters and legendary personalities — what they really looked like

01-03-2024

Historical characters and legendary personalities — what ...

The reconstruction of the face from the skull, or the method of anthropological reconstruction of the appearance on a craniological ...

"Sbitenschiki are sneaking around on air sleds": Moscow of the 22-23 centuries on postcards of 1914

01-03-2024

"Sbitenschiki are sneaking around on air sleds": Moscow of ...

In 1914, the capital's confectionery factory "Einem" (after the revolution — "Red October") released a series of futuristic ...

The unsinkable Violet Jessop, who survived three of the largest shipwrecks of the XX century

01-03-2024

The unsinkable Violet Jessop, who survived three of the ...

For a long time it was believed that a woman on a ship brings bad luck. But, it turns out, there are examples of individuals who ...

The amazing story of Phineas Gage - the man with the crowbar in his skull

01-03-2024

The amazing story of Phineas Gage - the man with the crowbar ...

The possibilities of the human body are incredible. Sometimes people survive injuries that seemed to leave them no chance. One of ...

The most dangerous a study by British scientists: "operation Vegetarian"

29-02-2024

The most dangerous a study by British scientists: "operation ...

British scientists over the past few years have become heroes memes, jokes and anecdotes, due to their inexplicable passion for ...

Why in Russia girls sometimes drowned themselves after their wedding night

29-02-2024

Why in Russia girls sometimes drowned themselves after their ...

Our ancestors lived by different rules and sometimes it is difficult for us to understand their actions. The further into the ...

The latest suicide bomber in Britain: what were executed the former model and mother of two Ruth Ellis

29-02-2024

The latest suicide bomber in Britain: what were executed the ...

In the spring of 1955, the British press was enthusiastic murder. On a London street several shots from a revolver, was killed ...

First-of-its-kind crime scene photos from 1904

29-02-2024

First-of-its-kind crime scene photos from 1904

The photos of the last century were taken by lawyer Alphonse Bertillon, who worked in the French police in the XIX century and came ...

USSR in color: photographs of streets of Leningrad in the 1960s of the year

29-02-2024

USSR in color: photographs of streets of Leningrad in the ...

Let's see how he saw the hero-city of Leningrad foreign tourists who visited the cultural capital in the 1960s. All pictures of ...

An amazing story of survival in the taiga, or the forest epic of student Natalia Kosorukova

29-02-2024

An amazing story of survival in the taiga, or the forest epic ...

Experienced taiga specialists say that an ordinary person without supplies and equipment can survive in the taiga in the summer for ...