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![What does the word "bydlo" mean and how did it become an insult?](/img/2025/what-does-the-word-bydlo/what-does-the-word-bydlo-540x310.jpg "What does the word "bydlo" mean and how did it become an insult?")
11-12-2025
Future sex symbol Marilyn Monroe posing for pinup artist Earl ...
When 19-year-old Marilyn Monroe started to pose for Earl Moran in 1946, she still dreamed of becoming an actress. Moran's already ...
11-12-2025
Kunstyuki — old trinkets with a secret, causing delight
At all times, masters have created objects with secrets, striking with fine work and complex construction. The first such products ...
11-12-2025
The story of Australian Romeo and Juliet, who broke with the ...
If Australia is the most dangerous continent on the planet, then the Gibson Desert located in the west of the continent is its most ...
11-12-2025
The Urine Tax in Ancient Rome, or Why Money Doesn't Smell
The phrase "money has no smell" is familiar to everyone. But not everyone knows that its origins date back to the distant ...
10-12-2025
Etzi's "Ice Man" and his story
In 1991, on the Similaun glacier, which is located in the Tyrolean Alps, two German tourists discovered a perfectly preserved body ...
10-12-2025
Horror repeats itself: the same type of motifs on vintage ...
There is nothing strange in the fact that certain images and concepts of fear are repeated in the horror genre. Themes of horror ...
10-12-2025
"Bluecifer" — the story of a creepy sculpture that killed ...
The history of art knows a lot of strange and even scary works. Some of them look creepy, others are associated with terrible ...
10-12-2025
How brothers robbed a bank for 1.5 million using a ...
On August 5, 1977, one of the most notorious robberies in history took place. Two brothers Nikolai and Felix Kalachyan stole one ...
10-12-2025
Why are taxis all over the world marked with checkers?
All over the world, taxi cars are marked the same way - with checkers. They can be applied in a variety of places and have ...
09-12-2025
Father Yod and his "Family": the amazing story of an American ...
In 1969, a healthy food restaurant opened on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles-one of the first in the country, and possibly in the ...
09-12-2025
The Villisca Murders: The Horrific Story of a House with ...
Villisca is a small town in Iowa that may be in its final decades. Its population has halved over the past century, and people ...
09-12-2025
10 invaluable things that have been destroyed because of ...
Do you have an awkward acquaintances, in whose hands literally all falls down, breaks and crumbles? But to break it or mess up with ...
09-12-2025
The strange story of Dora Rathjen-Hitler's favorite athlete ...
Nowadays, in big sports, sometimes there are questions to athletes who are suspected of being men. Modern scientists are well aware ...
09-12-2025
Old Japan of the second half of the 19th century in ...
These hand-painted photographs of old Japan teach a history lesson about how life went on there in the Land of the Rising Sun at ...
09-12-2025
The adventures of a con man Roman medoks, the prototype of ...
The basis of almost all classical works based on real cases. The author had to do was skip the story through the prism of their ...
09-12-2025
"Bread and water are our food": what and how they ate in ...
Today we can go to the supermarket or to the market and choose any products according to our taste and desire. The situation was ...
09-12-2025
How the white flag became a symbol of an invitation to ...
Today, the white flag is perceived as a sign of surrender or a request for negotiations. But when and why did a simple white cloth ...
08-12-2025
Culinism: How the World's Most Disgusting Polygamy ...
At first glance, a phenomenon known as kulinism seems like a distant relic—an outdated tradition that grew up in the depths of a ...
08-12-2025
December 9, 1961: the day when 18 people came to the Beatles ...
The Liverpool foursome had to play for an audience that barely outnumbered them. See also: The tragic life story of Stuart ...
08-12-2025
20 photos from the days of prohibition
Prohibition started in 1920, when the so-called the Volstead act came into force. The 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...
08-12-2025
Who are the hay girls and what tasks did they perform in the ...
In the estates of landlords under serfdom, servants of various profiles lived and worked. It was believed that the more servants a ...
08-12-2025
Red thread on the wrist. Where did it come from and what does ...
Madonna, Johnny Depp, Annie Lorak, Lady Gaga, Olga Buzova, Philip Kirkorov, Leonardo DiCaprio, what unites these stars of domestic ...
08-12-2025
One day on a California beach in August 1970
These wonderful black-and-white shots were taken in August 1970, when photographer Lance Nix was relaxing on Mission Bay Beach ...
08-12-2025
Why in the old days the husband and wife slept separately and ...
It is well known that a person sleeps a third of his life. It is not surprising that so many customs are associated with sleep. ...
08-12-2025
The tragic life of bearded women Annie Jones, who was a real lady
Even in the middle of the XX century, when people came close to solving the mystery of the atom and was looking for ways to reach ...
![The Mad Marquis Henry Cyril Paget and his "Theatre of Joy"](/img/2025/the-mad-marquis-henry/the-mad-marquis-henry-170x170.jpg "The Mad Marquis Henry Cyril Paget and his "Theatre of Joy"")
07-12-2025
The Mad Marquis Henry Cyril Paget and his "Theatre of ...
This British aristocrat made history not for wars or politics, but for his unbridled passion for the stage, luxury, and ...