History
22-08-2025
Mussolini was a dictator both in life and in bed and ...
On April 28, 1945, Italian partisans shot the leader of the Italian fascists, Benito Mussolini. The same fate befell his mistress, ...
22-08-2025
I was looking for copper, I found gold: 30 photos of ancient ...
Flea markets and flea markets are often associated with cheap, unwanted items, but sometimes you can find real treasures among the ...
21-08-2025
The Story of the Great London Fire, or How a small candle ...
By the middle of the 17th century, London was a crowded city with narrow streets, in which houses were built of wood and covered ...
21-08-2025
"Car of tomorrow" Phantom Corsair: a wonderful combination of ...
This incredible car was created just one copy at the whim Rasta Heinz — the heir to the biggest American company for the ...
21-08-2025
What were the offices like a hundred years ago
We all know what a typical office looks like today — desks with computers, office equipment, a water cooler... Someone is lucky ...
21-08-2025
Parmesan-delicious, but expensive: the passion of English ...
With the beginning of sea voyages, the issue of food was a serious problem for European sailors. In the damp and stuffy ship's ...
20-08-2025
John Smith or Chief White Wolf, the oldest Indian who ...
Chief White Wolf, aka John Smith, was a Native American from the Ojibwe tribe (also known as Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Salt) who lived ...
20-08-2025
Investigation by journalist Nellie Bly: 10 days in the most ...
In 1887, journalist Nellie Bly did something incredible: she pretended to be crazy and spent 10 days in the worst mental hospital ...
20-08-2025
Jose de Ribera is a maniac artist, acquitted after 400 years
Finding the fine line between genius and madness is very difficult. It is especially difficult to understand the worldview and ...
20-08-2025
Dr. Death Josef Mengele is a killer of thousands who has not ...
Dr. Josef Mengele is one of the most demonized Nazi criminals. Unfortunately, most of the nightmares attributed to the doctor are ...
19-08-2025
The life and death of Anna Geldi, the last witch from Switzerland
Witch hunts claimed the lives of thousands of women-young and old-between the 14th and 18th centuries. Mass hysteria over ...
19-08-2025
Young American women on the beaches of Texas in the 80s
Minimum clothing and maximum drive: the main motto of American youth 80 years. Girls loved to experiment with his looks, spending a ...
19-08-2025
Singing breasts: musical topless groups of the second half of ...
Women sing on stage with bare breasts. It seems that this idea is so simple and so brilliant for a mass audience that it is ...
19-08-2025
Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America
The Miss America beauty pageant may seem like an absolute anachronism, but once it really mattered a lot. In 1921, Margaret Gorman ...
19-08-2025
How people fought the heat before the era of air conditioners
Using many things that have been familiar to us for a long time every day, we don't think much about where they came from, who ...
19-08-2025
Who made the Croatian island of Baljenac look like a fingerprint
Everyone who sees the island of Balenac from above has a question - what happened to this piece of land. This is not surprising, ...
18-08-2025
Mundaneum: How a 'paper Google' appeared in Belgium a ...
Got it, I'll update the alt tags in the post code now, using the title and captions. Today, it only takes a couple of minutes ...
18-08-2025
10 women of easy virtue, whose names are firmly stuck in history
While much is known about such historical figures as King Louis XV, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and King Charles II, few people know ...
18-08-2025
The Tragic Love Story of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
The love story of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier is a true Hollywood drama, full of passion, ambition and painful jealousy. ...
18-08-2025
Land and Will: how Anarcho-socialism worked in the States of ...
Americans are very offended when they are told that socialism was invented in Europe. In fact, the first half of the XIX century ...
18-08-2025
The last peaceful summer of pre-war Paris, 1939
These photos are 80 years old this year. They were taken by LIFE magazine photographer William Vandiver during his business trip to ...
18-08-2025
The real story of the "Curse" was scarier than the movie
The film is directed by James WAN's the Conjuring became one of the best horror movies of the 21st century. He looks fantastic, he ...
18-08-2025
Terrible "medicine" of quarrelsomeness and nymphomania: Top ...
Medicine is not always professed sparing treatment. Sometimes Hippocratic "do no harm" was interpreted not always in favor of the ...
18-08-2025
Eleanor of Aquitaine: how the blonde princess conquered ...
It is known that medieval minstrels never skimped on flattery and, quite often, sang the virtues of beautiful ladies, which they ...
18-08-2025
Retro photos of interiors and appliances in offices of the ...
The 1970s were a time of dramatic changes in office culture, layout and technology. Offices have become more ergonomic, employees ...
17-08-2025
The history of Nike Cortez sneakers – the most criminal ...
In the USA, the best and sometimes the only way to recognize a gangster is to look at his sneakers. Each gang in the States has its ...