Europe

How to make a Swiss army knife

17-07-2025

How to make a Swiss army knife

You are probably all familiar with the Swiss army knife — a multifunctional folding knife, which is equipped with a blade and ...

One-way trip: why "dark tourists" go to dangerous countries

16-07-2025

One-way trip: why "dark tourists" go to dangerous countries

The term "dark tourism" means visiting places that are dangerous to life. Desperate travelers go on risky trips for the sake of ...

"Each of us needs beauty": why does this woman create huge flowers

16-07-2025

"Each of us needs beauty": why does this woman create huge ...

An artist from Copenhagen named Marianne Eriksen-Scott Hansen creates giant lush flowers from many layers of colored tissue paper. ...

The "great stench" in London: how the environmental disaster of the 19th century gave impetus to progress

16-07-2025

The "great stench" in London: how the environmental ...

In the 19th century, London became the universally recognized world center of science and technology. At the same time, the capital ...

Norwegian Museum Lofotr: a journey into the world of Vikings

16-07-2025

Norwegian Museum Lofotr: a journey into the world of Vikings

There is a museum in the north of Norway, which is not boring, but really interesting. The main object of the Lofotr museum complex ...

Creepy Parisian clubs that were lit up before it became mainstream

16-07-2025

Creepy Parisian clubs that were lit up before it became ...

Surely you have at least once turned the wrong way in an unfamiliar city and found yourself in an area with ominous architecture. ...

From Bikinis to Wi-Fi Connectivity: 6 Common Things That Were Once Illegal

16-07-2025

From Bikinis to Wi-Fi Connectivity: 6 Common Things That Were ...

The world around us is constantly being transformed, so is it any wonder that the attitude of the law to some things and actions ...

"Ladder of the dead" in the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen

16-07-2025

"Ladder of the dead" in the Austrian concentration camp ...

The Mauthausen concentration camp was located 20 kilometers east of Linz, the administrative center of Upper Austria. It was the ...

Montfaucon — the horror of medieval Paris

15-07-2025

Montfaucon — the horror of medieval Paris

It is not difficult to guess that the death penalty by hanging has always been the most popular method of execution. Fast, ...

Florentine football: little for the war, but cruel for the game

15-07-2025

Florentine football: little for the war, but cruel for the game

Florence is not only the world capital of art, birthplace of the great Dante and the Italian literary language. This is a city ...

Mowgli on the contrary: the Norwegian brought up the four wolves and became the "leader of the pack"

15-07-2025

Mowgli on the contrary: the Norwegian brought up the four ...

A resident of Norway Frank Andre Soma (Frank Andre Soma) has 20 years experience in the natural Park Langedrag (Langedrag). Here a ...

The story of the knight Goetz von Berlichingen - a mercenary with a steel hand

13-07-2025

The story of the knight Goetz von Berlichingen - a mercenary ...

Nowadays it is difficult to surprise someone with a functional prosthesis. But just fifty years ago, a biomechanical arm or leg ...

People without a permanent place of residence: an Italian photographer has created a unique project about the life of Gypsies

13-07-2025

People without a permanent place of residence: an Italian ...

Since the time when the Roma people left India about 1500 years ago, they have been constantly subjected to discrimination and ...

Carnyx - the psychological weapon of the ancient Celts

13-07-2025

Carnyx - the psychological weapon of the ancient Celts

In ancient wars, along with conventional weapons, psychological weapons were often used. Frightening-looking objects, and musical ...

18 reasons to go to Barcelona

13-07-2025

18 reasons to go to Barcelona

Barcelona is an ancient city, on the streets of which, it seems, the sun has settled for a long time and forever. Here, every ...

Portrait of his wife: Russian Muses of European artists

12-07-2025

Portrait of his wife: Russian Muses of European artists

On July 12, 1919, the marriage of the artist Pablo Picasso and his beloved Olga Khokhlova took place at the city hall of the ...

"Underground Cathedral" of Lodz - the most beautiful sewer system in Europe

12-07-2025

"Underground Cathedral" of Lodz - the most ...

Each ancient city has unique attractions that you will not see anywhere else. There are many such places in Polish Lodz, but the ...

How did the cutlet in Kiev

11-07-2025

How did the cutlet in Kiev

Kiev cutlets are known and loved all over the world. In our country, it is difficult to find a person who has never tried this ...

Louis XIV: The God-given Sun King who ruined France

11-07-2025

Louis XIV: The God-given Sun King who ruined France

Louis XIV de Bourbon, who was named Louis the God-given at birth, will forever remain in history as the most luxurious European ...

"I can see everything from above": 22 aerial photo of Karolis Janulis

10-07-2025

"I can see everything from above": 22 aerial photo of Karolis ...

Lithuanian photographer Karolis Janulis captured the stunning beauty of Lithuania, Croatia and Slovakia on camera from the air. His ...

Cool minimalistic tattoos drawn in one line

10-07-2025

Cool minimalistic tattoos drawn in one line

Earlier, we already had a post telling about the German-Iranian tattoo master Mo Ganji, who draws super-cool tattoos in one line. ...

12 main mystical places in Europe

10-07-2025

12 main mystical places in Europe

Old World. There doesn't seem to be a town, a castle, or a narrow cobbled street here that doesn't have ghost stories, scary bloody ...

Why did Europeans eat Egyptian mummies during the Middle Ages

10-07-2025

Why did Europeans eat Egyptian mummies during the Middle Ages

Europeans have not always been enlightened. During the Middle Ages, the Italian, French, and German nobility ate the powdered ...

Pick up my pants. An unusual experiment with unexpected results

10-07-2025

Pick up my pants. An unusual experiment with unexpected results

And you know what underwear is preferred by your mate? Quarantine was a great opportunity for lovers who are together in isolation, ...

In one day: amazing photo by Stephen Wilkes

10-07-2025

In one day: amazing photo by Stephen Wilkes

Pictures of the famous attractions have become part of the project of the photographer under the title "night and Day". Fifteen ...

Sex in the Victorian era: slow, sad and rare

09-07-2025

Sex in the Victorian era: slow, sad and rare

The long reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled Great Britain from 1832 to 1901, was very controversial in terms of sexuality. Along ...