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1904-1924: The life of North American Indians in photographs by Edward Curtis

29-07-2025

1904-1924: The life of North American Indians in photographs ...

Born on a farm in Wisconsin in 1868, Edward Sheriff Curtis worked as a photographer in Seattle. In 1895, he photographed Princess ...

Russian beliefs about mirrors and useful conclusions that can be drawn from them

28-07-2025

Russian beliefs about mirrors and useful conclusions that can ...

The old superstitions about mirrors, passed down from generation to generation, have lived up to the age of digital technologies. ...

Ubang is a unique village in Nigeria, where men and women speak different languages

28-07-2025

Ubang is a unique village in Nigeria, where men and women ...

They say that women are aliens from Venus, and men are from Mars. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Ubang – a unique peasant ...

What is "dry sex" and why do people in Africa practice it

26-07-2025

What is "dry sex" and why do people in Africa practice it

Among the inhabitants of the Black continent, with the exception of those who inhabit its northern part, "dry sex" has long been ...

The Last Pagans of Europe, Residents of Mari El through the Eyes of a Japanese Photographer

25-07-2025

The Last Pagans of Europe, Residents of Mari El through the ...

Mari El is a small republic in the Volga region, where the original pagan culture has been preserved: special rituals, traditional ...

The battle of the friends of Verus and Priscus: how was the only gladiator fight described in detail in history

25-07-2025

The battle of the friends of Verus and Priscus: how was the ...

The fight of the gladiators Verus and Priscus is considered the most famous gladiator performance in history and the only fight ...

Our daily bread: amazing photo Gregg Segal on the diets of children of different Nations

23-07-2025

Our daily bread: amazing photo Gregg Segal on the diets of ...

Increasing levels of childhood obesity and junk food consumption in the modern world become more acute. Photographer Greg Segal ...

The hatfields vs McCoys: how two American families gave vendetta a pig

21-07-2025

The hatfields vs McCoys: how two American families gave ...

In the late nineteenth century on the border of the States of West Virginia and Kentucky between the two families of farmers there ...

Why do Indian women wear nose rings?

21-07-2025

Why do Indian women wear nose rings?

India is a country with a rich history and unique traditions that go back to ancient times. Some features are very unusual, and ...

Tattoos on the face — a sacred tradition of Maori women

18-07-2025

Tattoos on the face — a sacred tradition of Maori women

Maori women are traditionally tattooed on the chin in their teens. This drawing, called "moko kauae", is considered a visual ...

20 American habits that are considered rude in other countries

17-07-2025

20 American habits that are considered rude in other countries

Behavior that, in your opinion, seems normal, in different parts of the world may seem rude and even boorish. Every nation has its ...

Slavic beauty: bright portraits of girls from Russian photographers

16-07-2025

Slavic beauty: bright portraits of girls from Russian ...

Slavic culture has existed for many centuries. During this time, the Slavs developed their own ideas about true beauty. -- >The ...

Norwegian Museum Lofotr: a journey into the world of Vikings

16-07-2025

Norwegian Museum Lofotr: a journey into the world of Vikings

There is a museum in the north of Norway, which is not boring, but really interesting. The main object of the Lofotr museum complex ...

Florentine football: little for the war, but cruel for the game

15-07-2025

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 ...

Why is China called the "Celestial Empire"

14-07-2025

Why is China called the "Celestial Empire"

When talking about China, this country is often called the Celestial Empire. At the same time, residents of this country are ...

Who is cooler: our Cossacks or Japanese ninjas?

14-07-2025

Who is cooler: our Cossacks or Japanese ninjas?

The Japanese are very proud of their military traditions. Not the last place in the list of their achievements is the ancient art ...

People without a permanent place of residence: an Italian photographer has created a unique project about the life of Gypsies

13-07-2025

People without a permanent place of residence: an Italian ...

Since the time when the Roma people left India about 1500 years ago, they have been constantly subjected to discrimination and ...

8 countries where a skirt is a sign of masculinity

13-07-2025

8 countries where a skirt is a sign of masculinity

We are all used to the fact that a man in a skirt is necessarily a Scot. But, it turns out that this item of clothing is worn by ...

Sex Education in China, or Why the Cultural Revolution Cannot Replace Sexual

12-07-2025

Sex Education in China, or Why the Cultural Revolution Cannot ...

Today, China is ahead of the entire planet in many areas. If somewhere the Celestial Empire is not yet in the top three, then we ...

Egypt's Merimde Civilization: The Ancestors of the Pyramid Builders Who Didn't Bury Their Children

12-07-2025

Egypt's Merimde Civilization: The Ancestors of the ...

The civilization of Ancient Egypt is still full of unsolved mysteries. People who built majestic pyramids and temples before the ...

The Last hunters and Gatherers: the life of a primitive tribe in Nepal

12-07-2025

The Last hunters and Gatherers: the life of a primitive tribe ...

Hunters and gatherers, as they write in historical books, are primitive people who lived tens of thousands of years ago, before ...

Korovai — a mysterious tribe of cannibals, who recently learned about civilization

10-07-2025

Korovai — a mysterious tribe of cannibals, who recently ...

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

Why did Europeans eat Egyptian mummies during the Middle Ages

10-07-2025

Why did Europeans eat Egyptian mummies during the Middle Ages

Europeans have not always been enlightened. During the Middle Ages, the Italian, French, and German nobility ate the powdered ...

From sex with a crocodile before jumping into the ground: the most severe ways of male initiation

09-07-2025

From sex with a crocodile before jumping into the ground: the ...

Men will always remain men and all my life someone something to prove. If the modern world can take place with money, success with ...

27 designers from around the world: what it means to be attractive and stylish in their country

09-07-2025

27 designers from around the world: what it means to be ...

Standards of beauty are actually different in every country and sometimes region. It depends on the culture, even economic ...

Great as obry: who were the Avars, zaprjagaevii Slavic women in the cart instead of the ox

07-07-2025

Great as obry: who were the Avars, zaprjagaevii Slavic women ...

In the summer of 558 residents of Constantinople were seen on the streets of horsemen dressed in armor of iron plates. The soldiers ...