Asia

The History of the Expression "China's Last Warning" and Why It's Misused

21-05-2025

The History of the Expression "China's Last ...

Everyone knows the expression “China's last warning”. It is usually used when they want to warn someone. It contains a ...

10 facts about Japan that you may not have known

21-05-2025

10 facts about Japan that you may not have known

Japan is a beautiful and amazing country, but many people know very little about it and its culture. And there is something to tell ...

The unique hive wall is the only wild bee sanctuary in China

20-05-2025

The unique hive wall is the only wild bee sanctuary in China

In the national reserve of Shennongjia, which is located in the Chinese province of Hubei, 700 beehives are located on a stone ...

Retro photos from the colorful Taiwan of the late 1970s

20-05-2025

Retro photos from the colorful Taiwan of the late 1970s

Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China and the official capital of Taiwan Province within the PRC. It is the political, ...

Marry a Communist, or How North Korean Women Choose Spouses

20-05-2025

Marry a Communist, or How North Korean Women Choose Spouses

North Korea, despite its specific state system with many costs, remains a country of ancient culture. Many of the traditions were ...

Seeing the amazing in the ordinary: what is the secret of Shin Noguchi's wonderful street photos

19-05-2025

Seeing the amazing in the ordinary: what is the secret of ...

Snowfalls, children, a giraffe and sleeping in the subway-Shin Noguchi snatches truthful and unusual moments in the daily life of ...

10 stunning views of the desert from the air

18-05-2025

10 stunning views of the desert from the air

Photographer George Shteymets flew a motorized paraglider over deserts all over the world, from China to Africa and Antarctica, and ...

Honor is more precious than life: how the samurai in Japan did hara-kiri

17-05-2025

Honor is more precious than life: how the samurai in Japan ...

A stunning series of vintage photos shows the life of Japanese samurai 130 years ago. Among the pictures there are also those that ...

"Fragrant Garden": how the Arabic Kama Sutra appeared

17-05-2025

"Fragrant Garden": how the Arabic Kama Sutra appeared

Everyone knows about the existence of the Indian treatise on love "Kama Sutra". But almost no one has heard of the Arabic book "The ...

Naga fireballs - a phenomenon of the Mekong River that has not been solved by scientists

17-05-2025

Naga fireballs - a phenomenon of the Mekong River that has ...

Naga fireballs, also called "Mekong lights" and "ghost lights", are a phenomenon that can be seen over the ...

Japan is the birthplace of sexual perversions

16-05-2025

Japan is the birthplace of sexual perversions

Japan is an amazing country and completely incomprehensible to us. All these manga, hentai, bukkake, literally elevated to the rank ...

22 wonderful pictures from Vietnam from the talented Chan Tuan Viet

15-05-2025

22 wonderful pictures from Vietnam from the talented Chan ...

Weaving baskets and fishing nets, the season of pink algae, crossing sand dunes, cow races — all this is so far from the modern ...

The Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s in propaganda posters

14-05-2025

The Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s in ...

Propaganda posters from the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966 & #8212; 1976 clearly show how at that time the country ...

The Subtle East and the fashionable West: an American's photo tour of Iran in 1967

13-05-2025

The Subtle East and the fashionable West: an American's photo ...

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran was completely different from what it is today. Women dressed in Western fashion, freely ...

Nijo Castle Gardens

13-05-2025

Nijo Castle Gardens

Nijo Castle is the fortified residence of the Tokugawa shoguns in Japan. The castle complex consists of many buildings and several ...

Vintage pictures of Japan in color and 3D

12-05-2025

Vintage pictures of Japan in color and 3D

These animated GIF images were created using stereoscopic photographs taken in Japan between 1895 and 1910. The author of the ...

Iran of 1901 in the lens of Anton Sevryugin

12-05-2025

Iran of 1901 in the lens of Anton Sevryugin

Anton Sevrugin (1830-1933) was the official photographer of the Imperial Court of Iran, his photography studio was one of the most ...

Red Beach in China

11-05-2025

Red Beach in China

Every year in Liaoning Province, thousands of tourists rush to see the red beach. It turns red in the autumn, when the coastal ...

The story of the knight Johann Schiltberger, who spent 30 years in captivity

10-05-2025

The story of the knight Johann Schiltberger, who spent 30 ...

Being in captivity is an ordeal for any person. The fate of such prisoners in the Middle Ages was especially unbearable. No ...

21 shocking facts about China

10-05-2025

21 shocking facts about China

Many of us don't know much about our own country, so it's not surprising that these facts about China will seem, if not shocking, ...

Ms. Zheng: as a prostitute became Queen of Chinese pirates

09-05-2025

Ms. Zheng: as a prostitute became Queen of Chinese pirates

The sea is still, you are a woman or a man, if you can hold in their hands an army of 70,000. Chinese Chin si could — she started ...

How meat is forged in China

08-05-2025

How meat is forged in China

China is one of the world's centers of forgery of everything and everything. For example, in the Middle Kingdom, expensive beef ...

Japanese schoolchildren create incredibly beautiful drawings on school boards

08-05-2025

Japanese schoolchildren create incredibly beautiful drawings ...

Japanese schoolchildren, apparently, adore blackboards, but not because they solve problems there — they draw on them during ...

Donkey, gopher, spider: Chinese and their exotic pets

07-05-2025

Donkey, gopher, spider: Chinese and their exotic pets

China has been overwhelmed by the fashion for exotic animals, which is why the demand for rare and even endangered species is ...

20 images of combat clothing from the distant past, which frightened the enemy

07-05-2025

20 images of combat clothing from the distant past, which ...

Throughout history, people have found a reason for war. Today on the planet here and there pockets of violence flare up. But unlike ...

Tibetans in the lens of Phil Borges

06-05-2025

Tibetans in the lens of Phil Borges

American photographer Phil Borges travels around the world and takes pictures of representatives of various small peoples with whom ...