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20-12-2024
Guilty by gender: Where girls are sent during menstruation in ...
The mother of Indian activist and photographer Poulomi Basu, a widow, does not wear red. In India, where Poulomi was born, red ...
17-12-2024
Why Germans bit crows: the story of one very strange photograph
You can find anything on the Internet. Sometimes, among the huge flow of information, you come across real gems. Of particular ...
15-12-2024
How the endangered tribe of reindeer herders from Mongolia lives
Photographer Hamid Sardar-Afkhami lived in Nepal, studied Tibet and the Himalayas for more than a decade, and then went to Mongolia ...
14-12-2024
Patrick Carew's photo project "Gypsies"
In his documentary-portrait cycle "Gypsies" photographer Patrick Carew decided to observe the life of this ever-wandering people. ...
12-12-2024
Henpecked nation: how the people of Minangkabau, who call ...
Minangkabau is a people living on the large Indonesian island of Sumatra, part of the Greater Sunda Islands group. These people ...
12-12-2024
What they don't write about in books: 5 myths about American ...
What do you know about Indians? Surely you, like many others, think that these are silent red savages with painted faces and ...
11-12-2024
The Kielce Massacre: who is responsible for the post-war ...
We are used to hearing about the mass extermination of Jews in Europe during the Second World War. The fact that the pogroms ...
10-12-2024
Red thread on the wrist. Where did it come from and what does ...
Madonna, Johnny Depp, Annie Lorak, Lady Gaga, Olga Buzova, Philip Kirkorov, Leonardo DiCaprio, what unites these stars of domestic ...
10-12-2024
5 unpleasant facts about Cuba that can dispel the romantic ...
Many guests of the Island of Freedom, barely having time to set foot on Cuban soil, hear from the guides & # 8212; " Have time to ...
10-12-2024
The basics of Gypsy hypnosis, or As accidentally "Golden ...
About the special psychic powers of the Roma people were known by our ancestors. Gypsies have long been famous for its ability to ...
10-12-2024
Who were our ancestors afraid of? Anchutka, shishimora and ...
If we are talking about the mythical characters of Ancient Russia, then everyone will immediately remember Baba Yaga, goblins, ...
10-12-2024
Color photographs of Japan in the beginning of 1950
After the surrender of Japan in 1945, allied forces led by the US invaded the country. The Empire disintegrated, its form of ...
08-12-2024
Purely Japanese theory, or How the blood type affects a ...
Despite the fact that Japan is considered a high-tech country, there is always a place for the strange and archaic in it. What ...
08-12-2024
Why did the Indians wear fringe on their clothes
Cinematic Indians are all dressed in trousers, jackets, shirts and moccasins with fringe. They have this piece of clothing ...
08-12-2024
Lost in the jungle: How the people of ava live — the most ...
In the Brazilian state of Maranhão lives the most secretive tribe on earth, which calls itself ava. These people have no contact ...
08-12-2024
Why Americans are called Yankees
Discussions have been going on about the origin of the Americans' nickname "Yankee" for a very long time. There are many versions, ...
08-12-2024
What do North American Indian women look like
A little bit about the feminine gender of the word "Indian": in all dictionaries of the Russian language, "Indian" means both the ...
07-12-2024
Nomads of raute — how the primitive tribe lives, whose days ...
Despite the fact that there are fewer and fewer places untouched by civilization in the world, there are still peoples living the ...
06-12-2024
13 traditional gifts that are present in other countries
Gift choice — not an easy task. It is important that it not only meets the needs of the recipient, but also was loaded with ...
05-12-2024
Why Ukrainians have long called Russians katsaps
The old nickname of Ukrainians "Ukrainians" can easily be explained by the forelocks on the heads of Zaporozhye Cossacks. But the ...
03-12-2024
A fight at a wedding — why was it mandatory in Russia
In the modern world, weddings with matchmaking, bride redemption, toastmaster and loaf have long been relegated to the background. ...
30-11-2024
The 20 strangest bans in the world
In which countries and why it is legally prohibited to run with friends, to star in porn if you have too small breasts, and to wear ...
30-11-2024
Iboga — how a deadly ritual from Africa became popular in ...
Modern man is very fond of the exotic. At the same time, he is often attracted to things not just unusual, but also extreme. Iboga ...
28-11-2024
Why police officers in the UK don't carry guns
One of the main features that distinguish British police officers from their counterparts from other countries is the lack of ...
28-11-2024
"Horned kichka": why women in Russia wore hats with horns
The national costume of a Russian woman is very diverse. According to the clothes, it was possible to find out not only the region, ...
27-11-2024
How concubines were selected for the harem of the Turkish Sultan
For the first time the concept of "harem" appeared in the Ottoman Empire in the 13th century. So they began to call the part of the ...