North America

12-12-2024
Why is steam always visible in the alleys in New York movies
Many movie lovers have noticed that in Hollywood pictures where the action takes place in In New York, there is steam in the ...

12-12-2024
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 ...

11-12-2024
Interesting facts about the film "Terminator" that ...
On January 11, 1985, The Terminator premiered. Over the third century that has passed since the release of the first science ...

10-12-2024
The story of the most serious girl, for whose laughter they ...
Everyone remembers the fairy tale about the princess Nesmeyana, having made her laugh, the main character received her as a wife ...

10-12-2024
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 ...

10-12-2024
Crazy old pictures of Florida teens
In the fall of 1972, Bill Yates traveled through the countryside in the vicinity of Tampa, Florida. At that time, he was studying ...

10-12-2024
"Bluecifer" — the story of a creepy sculpture that killed ...
The history of art knows a lot of strange and even scary works. Some of them look creepy, others are associated with terrible ...

10-12-2024
The Amazing Story of Slave Henry "Box" Brown Who ...
Who didn't wonder as a child: is it possible to send a person by mail in a parcel? Today it sounds like a fantasy, but history ...

09-12-2024
New York 1900 in color
A selection of photos of New York made using photochrome technology. We have given descriptions and links to how these places look ...

09-12-2024
How American presidents have lost the nuclear codes and the ...
Nuclear suitcase President of the United States know everything. But about what it is and how it works, known only to the elite. ...

08-12-2024
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 ...

08-12-2024
Golden time on wheels: American trailer parks in 50-ies and ...
In the US, thousands of trailer parks: according to various estimates, they account for about 20 million people. But the heyday of ...

08-12-2024
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, ...

08-12-2024
A pensioner from the USA is the most armed man on the planet
Mel Bernstein, nicknamed the Dragon, lives in Colorado, and he is armed no worse than some not too ambitious countries. In his ...

08-12-2024
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 ...

07-12-2024
Why was lithium added to 7UP soda?
Everyone knows the carbonated drink 7-Up. But no one can say why it was called that way. Surely its creator, Charles Leiper Grieg, ...

07-12-2024
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 ...

07-12-2024
Mini cows are the new fashion for pets in the USA
What people don’t keep at home, from cats and dogs to decorative pigs and pythons. It seemed that animal lovers would no longer ...

06-12-2024
What do you think about your face?
Danish photographer Simon Hoegsberg is known for his unusual photo projects, of which he has more than a dozen. In his work, he ...

06-12-2024
Havana looked like 100 years ago
These pictures of Havana, made in the first years of independence of Cuba from Spain, show us the richness of the architecture of ...

06-12-2024
"Fly Man" Harry Gardiner, who conquered 700 skyscrapers ...
When at the beginning of the 20th century in the USA they began to build skyscrapers, the suicides were the first to master them. ...

06-12-2024
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 ...

06-12-2024
Honey Ants: How to Make the Sweet Life for Yourself When ...
What do bees and ants have in common? The answer is obvious - both are insects. Few would think to say that both make honey. It ...

05-12-2024
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 ...

02-12-2024
Bold, beautiful, different: the faces of young Americans in ...
Photographer Marie Tomanova of Czech Republic has continuously lived in new York for seven years. The past four years, she filmed ...

02-12-2024
Popularity, money and death: the dark secrets of The Viper ...
In the 90s, The Viper Room nightclub was a favorite place of entertainment for many stars. In 1993, it was created by Johnny Depp ...