North America

The life and death of gangster Handsome Floyd - an enemy of the American state and a favorite of the people

29-12-2023

The life and death of gangster Handsome Floyd - an enemy of ...

Not only every nation has its own Robin Hoods, but also every epoch. For Americans in the 30s, Charles Arthur Floyd, nicknamed ...

John Jubert is a serial maniac, because of whose torment the electric chair was canceled

29-12-2023

John Jubert is a serial maniac, because of whose torment the ...

In the USA for many years, maniacs and murderers were sent to the electric chair, carrying out death sentences. But in the 90s, the ...

The Impossible Railway

29-12-2023

The Impossible Railway

The San Diego-Arizona Eastern Railway stretches for 235.61 kilometers among harsh desert landscapes and rocks. Many engineers of ...

20 amazing facts about America that even Americans themselves don’t know about

27-12-2023

20 amazing facts about America that even Americans themselves ...

Some people love them, and others hate them with all their hearts, but nevertheless, the United States is one of the most powerful ...

Touching Strangers: Strangers hugging each other

27-12-2023

Touching Strangers: Strangers hugging each other

Every day, photographers around the world are looking for new ways to tell stories or capture something we haven't noticed ...

One day on a California beach in August 1970

27-12-2023

One day on a California beach in August 1970

These wonderful black-and-white shots were taken in August 1970, when photographer Lance Nix was relaxing on Mission Bay Beach ...

Touching Strangers: Strangers hug each other

26-12-2023

Touching Strangers: Strangers hug each other

Every day, photographers around the world are looking for new ways to tell stories or capture something we haven't noticed before. ...

Two Housewives and an Axe, or Murder on Silicon Prairie

26-12-2023

Two Housewives and an Axe, or Murder on Silicon Prairie

Crimes committed out of jealousy are common throughout the world. Unfortunately, the matter does not always end in violation of ...

Operation Peter Pan - how the Americans took 14,000 children from Cuba

25-12-2023

Operation Peter Pan - how the Americans took 14,000 children ...

The operation to “rescue” Cuban children by American intelligence, despite its considerable scope, did not become known in wide ...

The real story of hunter Hugh Glass, who was played in the "Survivor" by DiCaprio

23-12-2023

The real story of hunter Hugh Glass, who was played in the ...

The film "Survivor", directed by Alejandro Inarritu, for the main role in which Leonardo DiCaprio received the long-awaited Oscar, ...

Bloodsuckers and spinogryz — non-child dolls from Bin Shanin

23-12-2023

Bloodsuckers and spinogryz — non-child dolls from Bin Shanin

Imagine a baby vampire or a tiny zombie with glass eyes ... An artist from the USA Bean Shanine specializes in creating such ...

Meet the Whittakers: how the most famous incest family in the USA lives

22-12-2023

Meet the Whittakers: how the most famous incest family in the ...

Even before humanity discovered genetics, it was known that close relationships do not lead to good things. Children born as a ...

A man should be bald, the best job in the world is a lipstick tester

22-12-2023

A man should be bald, the best job in the world is a lipstick ...

Obviously, in the 50s of the last century, a group of women, their lips and the lipstick itself were required to successfully test ...

An American classic: trucks Peterbilt and leggy beauty

22-12-2023

An American classic: trucks Peterbilt and leggy beauty

American Peterbilt Motors company produces ballast trucks and truck tractors. Huge mammoths trucks Peterbilt — it is a true ...

Headless Rooster Mike

21-12-2023

Headless Rooster Mike

"A headless rooster lives on after being hit with an ax." This is exactly what the headline in LIFE magazine of October ...

How to make money on the Pentagon 300 million: a recipe from two American junkies

21-12-2023

How to make money on the Pentagon 300 million: a recipe from ...

What if you don't want to bother, but wishes to earn $ 300 million? A bit of options and the best of them found the two lover ...

Canadian artist S.S. McNeil and her games with the naked body and light

20-12-2023

Canadian artist S.S. McNeil and her games with the naked body ...

Figurative artist from Canada's C. S. McNeil (C. S. McNeil) paints nude paintings using acrylic paints. About his works, the ...

"Hotel of death" Lavinia Fisher: the first female serial killer in USA

19-12-2023

"Hotel of death" Lavinia Fisher: the first female serial ...

Serial killers are male in history a few hundred and the army of the villains being added regularly. But among women «serial ...

Old school: how Stones fans rocked out in the 70s

19-12-2023

Old school: how Stones fans rocked out in the 70s

Check out these old photos from the Rolling Stones' concerts. The black-and-white footage of the shaggy-haired and disheveled ...

Revelations of children of the Turpin family, whom their parents brought to the brink of death

18-12-2023

Revelations of children of the Turpin family, whom their ...

It was only after many years that America learned about the bullying and violence in the Turpin family. 13 children of David and ...

Teenagers on the beaches of California in the 1970s

17-12-2023

Teenagers on the beaches of California in the 1970s

Sun, sea, beach and freedom from problems… In this collection dedicated to American teenagers of the 70s, you will find only ...

Without the past and the future: treatment of lobotomy from mental disorders

16-12-2023

Without the past and the future: treatment of lobotomy from ...

Terrible the procedure of lobotomy was very popular in the 1940-1950-ies. Patients suffering from depression and schizophrenia seen ...

Great camouflage, how naked people blend into the landscape

15-12-2023

Great camouflage, how naked people blend into the landscape

New York artist Trina Merry paints very unusual paintings. The canvas for her creations are the naked bodies of models, which she ...

American found color photo of the Indians of the late nineteenth century

15-12-2023

American found color photo of the Indians of the late ...

Filmmaker Paul Ratner (Paul Ratner) revealed a passion for studying old photographs of Indians during the filming of the film ...

What was the fate of Bernice, Marilyn Monroe's older sister

14-12-2023

What was the fate of Bernice, Marilyn Monroe's older sister

For many years, Norma Jean Mortenson, whom we know better as Marilyn Monroe, did not even suspect that she had a sister. When they ...

The history of olive Oatman — girl with the tattooed face who has lived five years with the Indians

14-12-2023

The history of olive Oatman — girl with the tattooed face ...

The confrontation of European settlers with the indigenous people of the Americas lasted for almost five centuries. And with the ...