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Painfully ridiculous family photos

04-02-2025

Painfully ridiculous family photos

Few people like shared family photos. No one likes to shoot them or shoot for them. Surely someone will close their eyes at the ...

Johnny Eck, the "king of the freaks" who was born with half a body

03-02-2025

Johnny Eck, the "king of the freaks" who was born ...

Freak shows and “human museums” seem distant and almost mythical to us. It’s hard to believe that just a century ago, freak ...

Wake up your volcano: Imaginary sex competitions are something

03-02-2025

Wake up your volcano: Imaginary sex competitions are something

Hundreds of crazy competitions are held in the world. What are the world championship on playing an imaginary guitar or the Finnish ...

How girls who Lost their Panties made Art Fram a famous Artist

03-02-2025

How girls who Lost their Panties made Art Fram a famous Artist

Chicago artist Art Frahm, who worked in the pin-up style, became famous for women losing their panties. It was the series of ...

In the mouth of my feet: the glorious history of the Canadian club of alcoholics "Sour Finger»

02-02-2025

In the mouth of my feet: the glorious history of the Canadian ...

In the Canadian town of Dawson, every dog knows this legend. In the winter of 1920, local bootlegger Lou Linken and his brother ...

New York in the 1940s through the lens of Weegee, the master of crime photography.

02-02-2025

New York in the 1940s through the lens of Weegee, the master ...

From 1938 to 1947, every evening after dark, this man took to the streets of Manhattan with a camera and flash, always with a cigar ...

Forgotten corners in the California desert

02-02-2025

Forgotten corners in the California desert

Photographer ed Freeman's easy to find a place that has forgotten other people. He just looks at the map of the California desert, ...

"He's a fucking genius!": America of the mid-20th century in the lens of the iconic Bruce Davidson

30-01-2025

"He's a fucking genius!": America of the mid-20th century in ...

American photographer Bruce Davidson had the talent to gain the trust of completely different people. He could come to Harlem and ...

Chang and Eng Bunker: The Story of the Brothers Who Created the Concept of 'Siamese Twins'

29-01-2025

Chang and Eng Bunker: The Story of the Brothers Who Created ...

Today, there is hardly any need to explain who Siamese twins are — even children know that they are people who have fused their ...

The legendary brothel "Mustang" in Nevada in pictures by Norman Mauskopf

28-01-2025

The legendary brothel "Mustang" in Nevada in pictures by ...

Norman Mauskopf invites the viewer to look into the "Mustang", a legendary brothel in Nevada, which became legal in 1971. ...

Luxurious Hilda in a modern interpretation: a woman recreated the images of the famous pin-up BBW from the 50s

28-01-2025

Luxurious Hilda in a modern interpretation: a woman recreated ...

The image of the buxom Hilda was created by illustrator Duane Briers (1911 — 2012). She was one of the few fat pin-ups who ...

The story of Getty Green, the Witch of Wall Street, the world's greediest woman

28-01-2025

The story of Getty Green, the Witch of Wall Street, the ...

If you suddenly think that your mother-in-law is a snake and a miser, then do not rush to conclusions. History knows worse ...

35 gorgeous things that people considered trash and put on the streets of new York

28-01-2025

35 gorgeous things that people considered trash and put on ...

In new York is gaining popularity a new way to deliver unnecessary things. Instead of take out boring furniture and household items ...

Extraordinarily beautiful and sad photos of floral memorials for dead animals

28-01-2025

Extraordinarily beautiful and sad photos of floral memorials ...

Amanda Stronza is an anthropologist, professor and photographer, in love with wildlife. She travels all over the world and takes ...

Nature and wildlife in the work of Darrell Bush: beauty in every detail

27-01-2025

Nature and wildlife in the work of Darrell Bush: beauty in ...

American artist Darrell Bush is primarily known for his works dedicated to the wildlife of North America. In his work, the artist ...

Behind the scenes of love: an American artist paints a real relationship

26-01-2025

Behind the scenes of love: an American artist paints a real ...

Cinema and literature inspire us that love is a sublime and pure feeling that makes people happy. That's right, but the ...

A complicated story Timmoti Pitsea, who for many years looking for all of America

25-01-2025

A complicated story Timmoti Pitsea, who for many years ...

In the United States eight years ago there was a mysterious incident. A woman named Amy fry-Pitzen (Amy Fry-Pitzen) took his son ...

Focus successful: how to use napkins American sued million

25-01-2025

Focus successful: how to use napkins American sued million

Jonathan Kolniak and James Balangi will long remember the usual corporate party 2015. Then, in the fumes of the feast, they signed ...

Colored century photographs of immigrants who arrived in the USA, reveal the contrast of cultures

23-01-2025

Colored century photographs of immigrants who arrived in the ...

Amazing photos clearly demonstrate the variety and diversity of different cultures of those people who arrived in the United States ...

They also have a soul: photographer takes portraits of homeless people

23-01-2025

They also have a soul: photographer takes portraits of ...

Recognized around the world and was awarded many international prizes street photographer Pedro Olivier now lives and works in ...

The Story of the "Pony Man" by Robert Huddleston

23-01-2025

The Story of the "Pony Man" by Robert Huddleston

Just a hundred years ago, it was incredibly difficult for a person with physical disabilities to find themselves in life. Disabled ...

What did the audience do in New York cinemas in the 1940s

23-01-2025

What did the audience do in New York cinemas in the 1940s

These photos were taken with an infrared camera by Arthur Fellig, also known as Weegee. In the early 40s of the XX century, Arthur ...

What would world-famous literary characters look like in real life

23-01-2025

What would world-famous literary characters look like in real ...

A great author can create an image of the hero of a literary work with words alone. And often special attention is paid to the ...

The "fear Factory" in Niagara Falls, or What is the "train of horror"

22-01-2025

The "fear Factory" in Niagara Falls, or What is the "train of ...

They say that fear has big eyes. I would also like to add that fear also has funny grimaces, no matter how cynical it sounds. ...

Why bees in the USA make the wrong honey

19-01-2025

Why bees in the USA make the wrong honey

Sandhill in North Carolina is the only place in the world where bees produce purple honey. According to eyewitnesses, it looks more ...

Secrets of the creation of the novel "gone with the wind": the husband is a tyrant, death in the family and the pursuit of happiness

18-01-2025

Secrets of the creation of the novel "gone with the wind": ...

American writer Margaret Mitchell wrote only one novel — "gone with the wind". But it provided the woman's place in the ...