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07-03-2023

The best travel photos according to National Geographic — 2016

The National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year competition, which is attended by professional and amateur photographers, ...

06-03-2023

A walk through the dangerous favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the ...

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are inexorably approaching, and Brazil is waiting for more than half a million tourists ...

04-03-2023

Like herring in a barrel: 10 thousand Chinese escape from the ...

Thousands of Chinese vacationers flooded the most crowded swimming pool in the world to refresh themselves and escape from the hot ...

26-02-2023

15 Incredible facts about North Korea

Everyone has heard something about North Korea. This country is often mentioned in the news, including in the context of supporting ...

22-02-2023

Manene Festival: Why do Indonesians dig up dead relatives ...

Every three years, the Indonesian island of Sulawesi hosts the Manene Festival, in which representatives of the Toraja people dig ...

21-02-2023

Bloody Vegetarian Festival in Thailand

The Festival of the Nine Imperial Gods is a nine—day Taoist event held every year in Southeast Asia in the ninth month of the ...

19-02-2023

Expensive-rich: gypsy wedding with a dress for 175 thousand ...

The other day, Slovak gypsies Evka and Lucas played a rather extravagant wedding. The bride was wearing a dress worth 175 thousand ...

10-02-2023

Incredible footage of an Amazonian tribe that has never been ...

These photos depict a tribe lost in the jungle that lives on a remote piece of land in the northern part of Brazil. The people of ...

31-01-2023

The participants of the Miss Universe 2016 contest showed ...

Marabou feathers, rhinestone—embroidered bikinis and pineapple-like hats -no, this is not a carnival in Rio de Janeiro. This is ...

30-01-2023

Bold Iranian fashionistas in sneakers destroy stereotypes

Since 2013, World Hijab Day has been celebrated on February 1. This holiday does not force or forbid wearing a hijab — it ...

21-01-2023

A Ukrainian woman and her future husband ended up in prison ...

A native of South Africa and his fiancee from Ukraine were arrested in Abu Dhabi after a doctor discovered that the girl was ...

20-01-2023

Absolute Mazl tov: How Jews in Jerusalem celebrated Purim

Joyful children in colorful hats dance while adults raise glasses to drink to the ancient and most cheerful holiday among the Jews ...

17-01-2023

Turkey's first female photographer and her extravagant models

Mariam Shahinyan is considered to be the first woman in Turkey who became professionally engaged in photography. An Armenian ...

17-01-2023

Who supports Stalin in his native Georgia in 2017

64 years have passed since the death of Joseph Stalin. In his homeland, Georgia, following Ukraine and the Baltic states in 2011, ...

12-01-2023

Island of unfreedom: why it's hard to escape from Cuba

Despite the obvious warming of relations between Cuba and the United States and the lifting of many restrictions, too little time ...

08-01-2023

Ninja in hijabs: how iranian women learn martial arts in the ...

In these photos, women in camouflage brandish deadly weapons, do backflips and hover in the air, as if ignoring gravity. It looks ...

08-01-2023

"Vodka and cold": the Irish about Russia and Russians

We keep asking people from all over the world what they think about us and our country. It was interesting to ask Dublin residents ...

01-01-2023

The Korowai are a mysterious tribe of cannibals who have ...

The Korowai (or Kolufo) are a mysterious tribe that lives in the southeastern part of Papua, Indonesia. Until the 1970s, the ...

31-12-2022

Two million Muslims gathered on Mount Arafat for the ...

On August 31, two million Muslim believers from all over the world gathered on Mount Arafat to perform a standing ceremony, which ...

13-12-2022

Colorful continent: 20 photos of African tribes

The life of some African tribes may seem strange and bizarre even for the inhabitants of this continent themselves. In total, there ...

05-12-2022

How Syria sheltered refugees from Europe during World War II

It's amazing how quickly people forget history. The current situation with Middle Eastern refugees in Europe is not the first and, ...

05-12-2022

The most famous dictators of the XXI century

Dictatorship is one of the forms of government by the state, the meaning of which lies in unlimited power. Unfortunately (or maybe ...

26-11-2022

In cramped conditions, but not offended: the most ...

Migingo is the most densely populated island in Africa's great lake. Its area is less than half the size of a football field with ...

24-11-2022

The power of a smile: photos that will make you look at ...

Photographer Jay Weinstein travels the world and takes portraits of strangers, and then asks them to smile and makes another ...

22-11-2022

How are the weddings of Bulgarian Muslim mountaineers

This strange photo shows the wedding of Fatma Ulanova and Jamal Sirakov from the village of Rybnovo. The inhabitants of this ...

19-11-2022

Mari schoolchildren have made a website about their village, ...

Schoolchildren from Mari-El with the support of the educational project "Circle" have created a website for their village Sardayal. ...

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