History
20.01.25
Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty
18-01-2025
20 unique photos with greetings from the past
Photographs are a time machine on which you can go back several years or even centuries. And the older they get, the more valuable ...
18-01-2025
Pizza, matryoshka and 6 other famous things invented not ...
Quite often it happens that if people use something for a long time, they begin to consider it part of their culture. For example, ...
18-01-2025
“Sleeping sickness”: the story of an epidemic whose ...
Everyone knows about the Spanish flu epidemic, which claimed tens of millions of lives at the beginning of the 20th century. But ...
17-01-2025
Photos of world rock stars in their youth that you are ...
This truly historical selection includes diptychs of famous singers and musicians. When you first look at these portraits, you ...
17-01-2025
20 portraits of immigrants to America at the beginning of the ...
Augustus Sherman worked in these years, the chief official in the office of records at Ellis island in new York, who was for many ...
17-01-2025
Francesco Lentini - the three-legged "king of freaks" who ...
The symbol of the island of Sicily — treskilion, represents three joined legs bent at the knees, with the head of the Gorgon ...
17-01-2025
Paris 1923 - epicenter of art and progress
The author of these unique historical photographs is Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. He was born in 1863 in the suburbs of Paris, grew ...
17-01-2025
From the boiler to the minimalism: the designers showed how ...
Fashion changes not only in clothing but also in interior design, especially kitchens. Once part of, was a stove, we now have a ...
17-01-2025
The whole truth about the Bloody mistress: the story of Darya ...
Bloody landowner, the dragon lady, Noblewoman torturous... has been called Daria Saltykov, spooky ways to death tortured dozens of ...
17-01-2025
Soviet epoch in photos Markov-Grinberg
The name of this legendary correspondent forever immortalized in textbooks devoted to the domestic photograph, along with such ...
17-01-2025
Little known UNESCO sites in Russia, which not everyone knows
The list of natural and cultural attractions that is generated by the UNESCO stamp of quality that speaks to the traveler, it's ...
16-01-2025
How did butlers appear, and what is the essence of this ...
We all know about the existence of butlers from a young age. People of this profession are present in the literary works of foreign ...
16-01-2025
Blond Silvett David: the mystery of the unknown Muse of the ...
Artists perpetuate the images of his muses in paintings, sculptures and other works. Them they draw inspiration for creativity. ...
16-01-2025
These Russian surnames are actually Jewish, but no one even ...
Few people know, but some popular supposedly Russian surnames are actually Jewish. And we are not talking about the Abramovichs, ...
16-01-2025
22 strange antiques that raise a lot of questions
We know about the past only what is written in the history books. But how little we know about the tastes of our ancestors, their ...
16-01-2025
Mae West-the controversial actress who became the first sex ...
May West once jokingly said that she should be given a license to invent sex, which she discovered for Americans. The name of this ...
15-01-2025
22 memories of the dashing 90s that have become a common past
Many still remember the dashing 90s, which still echo in our judgments, actions and way of life. We have collected a special photo ...
15-01-2025
How the monkey officially worked on the railway
We often use the expression: "Even a monkey can be taught this." At the same time, we mean some simple work that does not require ...
15-01-2025
As people in the last century imagined the future
In the mid-20th century, people were confident that in 50-70 years life will change: there will be a lot of amazing inventions, all ...
14-01-2025
4 cases when ordinary people behaved like action heroes
It's high time for Hollywood screenwriters to adopt the stories of these ordinary people, because in extreme situations they ...
14-01-2025
The harsh 19th century: a collection of archival photographs ...
From time immemorial, man's love for beauty and aesthetic beauty has firmly coexisted with an inexplicable craving to gaze at ...
14-01-2025
Why do men grow long nails on his pinky
Many are tormented by the question — why do some grow long nails on his pinky. If you ask the owners of such "decorations", we ...
14-01-2025
The pre-revolutionary history of Russia in color photos
Olga Shirnina network under the name Klimbim, good familiar to users kolonisierung historical imagery. The talented colorist, she ...
14-01-2025
Broke through: historical images of the baby boom in the USA
Since the end of World War II, birth rates have risen sharply in the United States and other Western countries. Between 1945 and ...
14-01-2025
How a joke about pies caused an uprising with human victims ...
The events that took place in 1962 in the city of Novocherkassk were strictly classified and for the first time the broad masses ...
14-01-2025
What did the world's most famous landmarks look like at the ...
Wolfgang Wilde, the creator and curator of the website Retronaut, has released a book that will change the perception of the past. ...