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Without a couple in South Korea: how Koreans treat singles and what the Sampo generation is

09-01-2024

Without a couple in South Korea: how Koreans treat singles ...

A Korean woman named Hyeon lives in South Korea, but she speaks Russian well and often writes interesting facts about her country ...

Stunning skills of the tribal peoples of the world

09-01-2024

Stunning skills of the tribal peoples of the world

Thousands of years tribal peoples held in close contact with nature, taught them surprisingly accurate to read the tiny signs: to ...

Guilty by gender: Where girls are sent during menstruation in Nepal

08-01-2024

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 ...

Why did people prefer shoes with curved noses in the East

08-01-2024

Why did people prefer shoes with curved noses in the East

Nowadays, the strangest wardrobe details can be explained by fashion trends. But once everything was different, and even the most ...

Red thread on the wrist. Where did it come from and what does it mean

06-01-2024

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 ...

Patrick Carew's photo project "Gypsies"

06-01-2024

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. ...

Why Americans are called Yankees

05-01-2024

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, ...

Kuldhara is an Indian ghost village with a creepy story

04-01-2024

Kuldhara is an Indian ghost village with a creepy story

There are many places in the world from which people have disappeared for one reason or another. Wars, epidemics, natural disasters ...

Which women are considered beautiful in different countries of the world?

04-01-2024

Which women are considered beautiful in different countries ...

Beauty is a subjective concept. Each country has its own ideas about the beautiful. In Africa, fullness is considered beautiful, ...

"Slavic squat" why are we comfortable in an unnatural position?

02-01-2024

"Slavic squat" why are we comfortable in an unnatural position?

When it comes to the squat, there are often heated debate. There are two camps, one of which are those who believe this provision ...

What they don't write about in books: 5 myths about American Indians

01-01-2024

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 ...

Color photographs of Japan in the beginning of 1950

31-12-2023

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 ...

Flowers are not just for girls, or Why real Arabs wear wreaths

31-12-2023

Flowers are not just for girls, or Why real Arabs wear wreaths

It is considered that flowers are the prerogative of girls. In every sense of the word: to give, to grow, to wear, etc. It's not a ...

What do North American Indian women look like

30-12-2023

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 ...

25 amazingly weird wedding traditions from around the world

27-12-2023

25 amazingly weird wedding traditions from around the world

All cultures, countries and different Nations, each nation has its own traditions and customs. But one thing remains common — ...

The Kielce Massacre: who is responsible for the post-war Jewish pogrom

26-12-2023

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 ...

Henpecked nation: how the people of Minangkabau, who call themselves descendants of the Macedonian, live

22-12-2023

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 ...

How the endangered tribe of reindeer herders from Mongolia lives

22-12-2023

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 ...

3 reasons why Gypsies do not serve in the Russian army

20-12-2023

3 reasons why Gypsies do not serve in the Russian army

Gypsies cannot be called a peaceful people. It is well known that they like to quarrel and even like to fight. Sometimes Gypsies ...

From impaling to trampling by elephants: 5 of the most brutal executions in the history of mankind

20-12-2023

From impaling to trampling by elephants: 5 of the most brutal ...

You would not wish anyone to be in the place of criminals in ancient and medieval times. The accused were subjected to terrible ...

10 countries where they drink the most tea

20-12-2023

10 countries where they drink the most tea

We present to you ten countries where tea is one of the most favorite drinks. Imagine, but among them there is neither India nor ...

How did the superstition about broken mirrors appear and why did it turn out to be so tenacious

19-12-2023

How did the superstition about broken mirrors appear and why ...

Although we live in the modern world, where most phenomena can be explained from the point of view of science, superstitions are ...

Lost in the jungle: How the people of ava live — the most secretive people on the planet

18-12-2023

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 ...

Why is it believed that dishes are beaten "for luck"

17-12-2023

Why is it believed that dishes are beaten "for luck"

Sometimes, when someone accidentally breaks a cup or plate, you can hear the phrase that it is "for luck". Sometimes at weddings, ...

Faces of Siberia: 35 stunning portraits of Yakuts, Ulchi and Negidals

17-12-2023

Faces of Siberia: 35 stunning portraits of Yakuts, Ulchi and ...

Says photographer Alexander Himushin: Nine years ago, I packed a backpack and went on a trip around the world. Since then, I have ...

How to earn cleaner ears, a street astrologer and other representatives of vanishing professions in India

16-12-2023

How to earn cleaner ears, a street astrologer and other ...

Photographer Supernaw das was born in Calcutta, studied at the School of visual arts in new York. For his graduation project, he ...