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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...