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15.12.23
10 Real Ninja Secret Moves
01-09-2023
Multinational wealth of the Russian Empire of the 1870s‑1880s
In 1864, a young resident of Ohio, George Kennan, joined a group of researchers in search of a possible route for laying a ...
27-08-2023
The World's Population By Eye Color
As estimated by the United Nations, the world currently has over 8 billion people, and every one of them is different from one ...
07-08-2023
Florentine football: little for the war, but cruel for the game
Florence is not only the world capital of art, birthplace of the great Dante and the Italian literary language. This is a city ...
23-05-2023
Girls are forced to "sell" themselves, and it's legal - life ...
In some countries, the standard of living of the ordinary population is so low that young women have little choice but to "sell" ...
14-05-2023
Romanian gypsies
About 150,000 people live in the city of Baia Mare in northwestern Romania. It is located near the border with Hungary and Ukraine. ...
14-05-2023
Young Afrikaner
Afrikaner, or Afrikaner, is the self-name of the inhabitants of South Africa of Dutch origin. In his Young Afrikaner project, ...
14-05-2023
Surreal photos from the life of modern Oglala Lakota Indians
Photojournalist Aaron Huey has been photographing the Oglala Lakota Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for seven ...
14-05-2023
Retro photo: From the life of Lilliputians
Little people were part of show business back in the Middle Ages, when show business itself did not really exist. And in the first ...
14-05-2023
11 Terrifying Ancient Rituals Still Practiced Today
While most surviving rituals in modern society involve harmless, world-wide traditions, others, lesser known, can be extremely ...
14-05-2023
The baron is dead, long live the baron!
Actually, not even a baron, but a real "king". Gypsy "King" of Romania Florian Cioaba. He died a week ago, in ...
14-05-2023
Mysterious Buildings - Kofun
Imagine densely populated Japan, where every piece of land is worth its weight in gold. And on this territory there are places ...
14-05-2023
Wedding traditions of mountainous Dagestan
Ivan Dementievsky writes: “At the end of our trip to Dagestan, we managed to take a walk at the coolest wedding I have ever seen.”
14-05-2023
Features of national fishing
Photoblogger Ivan Dementievsky says: “Today is a story about heavenly places on the border of India and Nepal, where crocodiles ...
05-05-2023
What religion do the Chinese profess?
The Chinese have always been a very practical people and that is why they use religion instead of believing in it. Even the ...
26-04-2023
Dagestan, 2000, photographs by Thomas Dvorak
We bring to your attention photographs taken by Thomas Dvorak, in Dagestan, in 2000. And a convincing request to the commentators - ...
25-04-2023
Circassians in Sochi
Reuters photographer Thomas Peter spent some time in Sochi's Caucasian community as the city prepared for the 2014 Winter ...
25-04-2023
British photographer Jimmy Nelson: Savages with machine guns
A selection of photos of colorful representatives of Ethiopian primitive tribes with weapons in their hands. We don't know how for ...
23-04-2023
Visiting the Hutsuls: the estate of Ukrainian mountaineers
There are not many, oh, not many places left in Ukraine where the appearance of a stranger is a big event for local residents, and ...
22-04-2023
Secrets of the Afro-Cuban ritual sacrifice
In the very heart of the Island of Freedom, life unknown to tourists is seething - here, far from the eyes of strangers, secret ...
20-04-2023
Avoiding female circumcision
Today, there are over 125 million girls and women in the world who have undergone FGM. Clitorectomy is the custom of removing parts ...
17-04-2023
North American Indians
A little about the feminine gender of the word "Indian": in all dictionaries of the Russian language, "Indian" ...
16-04-2023
Free love, matriarchy and "love huts" among the inhabitants ...
The tribes inhabiting the Trobriand Islands are not numerous and are distinguished by an unusual culture. It is women who are ...
15-04-2023
Will be taken to the tundra: How the Nenets celebrate the wedding
The Nenets now more often travel around the tundra not on reindeer, but on snowmobiles. They live in cities and towns, not in ...
01-04-2023
The last living Chinese women with lotus feet
Photographer Jo Farrell paints vivid yet controversial portraits of older women who have gone through the horrific custom of ...
28-03-2023
Magpies. The capital of the Gypsy People's Republic
— Hey, Chudra! Why did you leave the camp? — And the wrong gypsies have now gone… The wrong ones… are changing the ...
25-03-2023
Indian girl marries dog to break curse
Parents believe their 18-year-old daughter named Mangli Munda is cursed. This strange marriage was made in order to remove the ...