13-06-2020
23 photos show just how still was a hippie with no brakes
The hippie movement originated in 1965 in the United States. The word "hippie" comes from the conversational hip, which means ...
13-06-2020
View from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour: how did Moscow ...
In September 1839 the solemn laying of the new temple of Christ the Savior. The construction lasted almost 44 years. The Cathedral ...
11-06-2020
Scientists have deciphered the letter the seventeenth ...
In 1676 the nun Maria della Crocifisso Concezione (Crocifissa Maria della Concezione) wrote the letter. She claimed that the devil ...
11-06-2020
100 years of protest: chronicle of the struggle of African ...
From silent protests of 1917 on the streets of Manhattan to the recent massive unrest that followed the death of George Floyd ...
09-06-2020
Changed the floor to fight
The traditional story of the Civil war in America is the revenge of the historical accounts, told by men who fought as Yanks or the ...
09-06-2020
What's beneath the ice: the 12 scariest findings in the glaciers
Ice is the best way to keep something known from time immemorial. The ice of our planet keeps a lot of secrets that we have yet to ...
09-06-2020
From hard labor to the Gulag: the lives of the inhabitants of ...
In Russia launched a project on the history of the penal system, it was prepared by the Federal service of execution of punishments ...
07-06-2020
The myths that we were told in history lessons and we believe ...
Due to the effect of the illusion of truth (the tendency to believe that the information is true when it is repeated many times), ...
07-06-2020
As Alaska became our and why it was sold to the Americans
More than a century, the Russian Empire owned Alaska and the adjacent Islands until 151 years ago, Alexander II did not give these ...
06-06-2020
Girl-Indigo: the story of a short but colorful life of the ...
A girl named Sasha putrya has gone down in history as a talented artist, author of numerous children's poems and illustrations, and ...
05-06-2020
"Yes, I brush put!": the British learned that his pot made by ...
The most simple and insignificant things can have amazing story and represent great value. It is well-known archaeologists and ...
05-06-2020
Looked like Volgograd in 1980-ies
In 1985 the Moscow publishing house "Soviet Russia" issued a big album called "Volgograd", collected works of five Soviet ...
05-06-2020
BANNO-laundries industrial complexes, public house, or ...
Worn to death, not bending from arthritis fingers corroded by the lye skin and tons of Laundry. These were everyday women of bath ...
04-06-2020
The sons of Death, servant of Kali: a secret sect of ...
The notoriety of sophisticated killers got Indian tight (Thai), which was "the most bloodthirsty bandits in the history of ...
03-06-2020
Strange and frightening equipment of the Victorian era
It is difficult to imagine that these bulky machines of the Victorian era, more reminiscent of the guns for the sophisticated, ...
02-06-2020
The millennial mummy of a Buddhist monk, the brain and ...
From the mummified body of a Buddhist monk, which is a thousand years, still intact bone and brain. It revealed computed ...
30-05-2020
Forget what you were taught in school: the facts that ceased ...
Everything changes over time. And even those facts that you were previously believed to be concrete, after some time can change. ...
30-05-2020
Iran in 1901 in the lens of Anton Quite
Anton sevrjugin (1830-1933) was the official photographer of the Imperial court of Iran, his Studio was one of the most successful ...
28-05-2020
In Mexico city discovered the Aztec tower of human skulls
Tower of human skulls, found in the center of Mexico, has generated new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec ...
27-05-2020
The brightest moments of the struggle of African Americans ...
At the Lincoln memorial in Washington sounded "I Have a dream" – famous speech of a black preacher Martin Luther king, which has ...
27-05-2020
As bathed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and ...
Some clarity came only after studying the Wikipedia: Bathing machine (in Russia and Austria-Hungary was known as a bathing van) — ...
25-05-2020
Girls, set the tone in the pinup fashion 1950s
At Christie's last auction, which incorporates many designs of the pinup culture of the 50s. the Pinup was the gloss that time and ...
24-05-2020
What were the offices a hundred years ago
We all know what it looks like today's typical office desks with computers, office equipment, water cooler… Someone is lucky ...
24-05-2020
The story of the legendary ointment "Asterisk"
Legendary ointment "Asterisk" appeared in the pharmacies of the Soviet Union in about 70 years. I remember her literally ...
24-05-2020
Muscovite in 1956 in pictures LIFE photographer Lisa Larsen
LIFE magazine once again shares his archives, now we will see the daily life of Moscow, which captured one of the favorite of ...
23-05-2020
What was Moscow in the 90-ies
We offer you to remember Moscow 90 years, since the early Popov and Luzhkov. Crush on every street corner. Tracksuits and denim ...