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17-06-2025
Scientists have named the oldest name, and it is still in use
Have you ever wondered what is the oldest name on the planet? No, we don't mean Adam and Eve, which the Bible mentions. We are ...
17-06-2025
What the Trebuchet Can Do - The Throwing Weapon That Changed ...
When weapons were forged in forges and assembled in workshops rather than created in labs, humans learned to use gravity and ...
17-06-2025
"I loved him so much that I would have climbed Everest with a ...
What can a woman do for love? The story of the mad passion of Joyce McKinney, who hunted for her lover for many years, proves that ...
17-06-2025
Don't Celebrate 40 or You'll Be Left Without Luck: ...
No other date in a person's life is associated with as many superstitions as the 40th birthday. They say that this date should ...
17-06-2025
Beer, Mead, honey: the range of Soviet beer catalog 1950-ies
Today in conventional stores on the shelves you can see dozens of different Beers, but in the Soviet Union, the range of this ...
17-06-2025
Invulnerable Comandante: 10 most unusual assassination ...
If you believe the biographers of Fidel Castro, then the Cuban leader, for his long and eventful life, was attacked 637 times. It ...
17-06-2025
Colma is an American cemetery town that lives off the dead.
There are cities that exist entirely at the expense of tourists. The city of Colma, located near San Francisco, California, is not ...
17-06-2025
Why did the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes live in a barrel?
Diogenes of Sinope is one of the most famous ancient Greek philosophers. Few can explain the essence of his teaching, but almost ...
17-06-2025
How the world's first seismograph, Zhang Heng's, ...
It is known that a unique civilization has been developing on the territory of China for more than one millennium. The Chinese gave ...
16-06-2025
Historical facts that will make you take a different look at ...
When you start studying history at school, it seems that the construction of the pyramids and Cleopatra were a very long time ago ...
16-06-2025
The history of one monument, or how the British executed a ...
On the northeast coast of Great Britain is a small port city of Hartpool. This is a boring province where there is absolutely ...
16-06-2025
Scientists have deciphered a 17th-century letter written by a ...
For many years, scientists have been trying to decipher the message left by Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concesione. 340 years ...
16-06-2025
Bhangarh is a cursed ghost town in India where you can't ...
India is full of mystical places shrouded in eerie legends. The most famous of them is the abandoned city of Bhangarh in Rajasthan, ...
16-06-2025
Rare color shots from Tunisia at the turn of the 19th and ...
These colored postcards from the sunny streets of Tunisia were created using photochromy technology, in which monochrome images are ...
16-06-2025
The Allenstown Four Case: A Series of Murders That Took 40 ...
The American law enforcement system works differently from ours: investigators rarely give up on solving a case. There are ...
16-06-2025
10 inventions that appeared by pure chance
On May 14, 1878, the trademark "Vaseline"was patented. The well-known cosmetic and therapeutic agent was invented and patented by ...
15-06-2025
"Common villa", or How the toilet became an instrument of ...
The number of unique architectural monuments in St. Petersburg is amazing. And there are some stories connected with each of them. ...
15-06-2025
How Hollywood star Dolores Hart shook the foundations of the ...
We are used to the fact that world-class stars leave their careers at a very old age. They spend their whole lives basking in glory ...
15-06-2025
Supermarket, spam, electric guitar, and 7 other things that ...
The global economic crisis, which began on October 24, 1929 with the stock market crash in the United States and lasted for a long ...
15-06-2025
A Genius Who Fled from Fame: The Sad Story of Child Prodigy ...
William James Sidis is a name that once made headlines. He was called the greatest child prodigy of the 20th century: he began ...
14-06-2025
Horseshoes, Spoons and Light Bulbs: The Wildest Costumes of ...
Advertising has always been the engine of trade, and people realized this in ancient times. By the 19th century, the advertising ...
14-06-2025
Simple Muscovites of the 1950s through the eyes of an American
Thanks to the endless archives of LIFE magazine, we have a wonderful opportunity to go back in time and look into the eyes of our ...
14-06-2025
7 historical figures whose body parts were stolen after death
The heart of Anne Boleyn, the skull of Mozart and even the penis of Napoleon-you will agree, quite strange souvenirs in memory of ...
14-06-2025
To joke like a king: How were things with the sense of humor ...
Monarchs, although granted to the Russian people by God, were ordinary people. And this means that they could afford jokes and even ...
13-06-2025
Speaking surname: why did comrades-in-arms and enemies hate ...
It is well known that the Civil War that broke out in Russia after the 1917 revolution was protracted and very brutal. There was no ...
13-06-2025
The Man Who Saw It All: How Thomas Hepker Captured History
Thomas Hoepker is one of the most subtle and humane documentary photographers of the 20th century. Originally from Germany, he went ...