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![How the "Tomb of Christ", or the Alternative Gospel, appeared in Japan](/img/2025/how-the-tomb-of-christ-or/how-the-tomb-of-christ-or-540x310.jpg "How the "Tomb of Christ", or the Alternative Gospel, appeared in Japan")
24.12.25
Amazing photos of new York 1980‑ies
23-12-2025
The King of scammers — how Victor Lustig was able to sell ...
Victor Lustig is considered one of the most skillful and famous scammers in the world. He was arrested about 50 times and released ...
23-12-2025
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 ...
23-12-2025
How anthropologist Grover Krantz and his Dog Clyde became ...
There is an unusual exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. This is the skeleton of a man, on whose chest ...
23-12-2025
Favorite Soviet actors in childhood and adulthood
That looked like famous actors of the Soviet screen in the childhood years. Unfortunately, many archived images are preserved not ...
23-12-2025
8 famous photos that hide fascinating stories
Probably everyone has seen a photo of a sailor and a nurse kissing in Times Square or a portrait of Albert Einstein with his tongue ...
23-12-2025
Korean heating system ondol — underfloor heating that ...
Every region of the world with a fairly cold winter has its own traditional ways of heating homes. In Western European countries, ...
22-12-2025
The Story of Narcisse Pierre Pelletier, a White Aborigine of ...
Sometimes a single incident can completely change a person's life, turning it into a legend whose reality is hard to believe. ...
22-12-2025
Winter in Soviet retro photos
Drifts of snow, frost and sun, winter fun — c Soviet time, little has changed for this time of year. Feel the true atmosphere ...
22-12-2025
Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty
Students, workers, collective farmers. From the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova… They are all very ...
22-12-2025
6 Inventions That Killed Their Creators
Invention is a creative, exciting, yet sometimes dangerous process. When creating something new, a person isn't always able to ...
22-12-2025
How drinking straws were invented
Straws are such a commonplace item that we rarely think about their origins. It seems they've always been around: in cocktails, ...
21-12-2025
The time of fridges: a butcher's shop in Victorian England
In the Victorian era Britain was quickly urbanized. By 1851 it became the first country lived in cities of more people than in the ...
21-12-2025
The Life and Death of Jean Harlow, Hollywood's First ...
Hollywood diva Jean Harlow became the first actress to be nicknamed a "platinum blonde." Men were ready to follow her to ...
21-12-2025
Burundanga - does the creepy jungle drug really exist?
The number of urban legends generated by human imagination in recent years has been enormous. Some of them are invented from ...
21-12-2025
Why the name Svetlana is not recognized by the Church
The formation of Russian names occurred centuries under the influence of many factors and cultures. Despite this, our imenoslov ...
21-12-2025
The secret of Marilyn Monroe's skirt: why she pulled up and ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, Manhattan became a favorite walking place for lonely New York men. They gathered in groups in ...
21-12-2025
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 ...
21-12-2025
22 photos that prove that people were pretty damn cool in the ...
Viewing old photos is always interesting and a little sad. But these pictures will cause you only positive emotions. It turns out ...
21-12-2025
Where is the "Kemska volost" about which the Swedish ...
Leonid Gaidai's comedy "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" has been supplying us with catch phrases for half a century. But ...
21-12-2025
Hacker Kevin Mitnick: From Enemy of the State to Defender of ...
Kevin Mitnick is a name that became legendary in the world of information technology back in the last century. In the 1990s, he was ...
20-12-2025
Eight strange and unexpected things that were on board the ...
The tragic story of the wreck of the Titanic, which collided with an iceberg and sank more than a hundred years ago, has become the ...
20-12-2025
The Hippie Trail: The Legendary Freedom Route Across the ...
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of young people from all over the world embarked on an incredible journey that would ...
20-12-2025
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 ...
20-12-2025
The Great Lisbon Earthquake: How One Disaster Changed the ...
Portugal was long the world's largest colonial power. This small European kingdom controlled vast territories in the New World, ...
20-12-2025
The most ruthless child killers in history
The mention of murderers makes the blood run cold, but the scariest thing is when these murderers are children. It doesn't even fit ...
19-12-2025
What the Internet looked like 30+ years ago
On December 20, 1990, the first website was launched, created by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who worked at the time at the ...