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Winter in Soviet retro photos
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Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty
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How drinking straws were invented
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 ...
19-12-2025
The legend of Judith and Oloferne
After defeating the median king Arphaxad, the Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled in Nineveh, sent his captain Holofernes to ...
18-12-2025
The story of the suicidal chef Bernard Loiseau, who became ...
Most of us have seen the American full-length cartoon "Ratatouille", released in 2007. Someone remembers such a character as the ...
18-12-2025
10 Best Films About the Plague in the Middle Ages
The gloomy streets of deserted cities, the stinking carts laden with corpses, the fear in people's eyes, and the all-pervasive ...
18-12-2025
From Rasputin to Vysotsky: famous faces in color
We tend to perceive color photographs as something more real and modern. Thanks to the passion of the artist Olga Shirnina, who ...
!["All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are clowns": children's costumes for New Year's parties in the 90s](/img/2025/all-the-girls-are/all-the-girls-are-170x170.jpg ""All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are clowns": children's costumes for New Year's parties in the 90s")
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"All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are ...
Nowadays, children at New Year's parties shine in a variety of outfits depicting hundreds of different characters, from banal ...
18-12-2025
Adele Syndrome: How Love Turns into a Dangerous Diagnosis
An extreme form of love addiction, reminiscent of obsession, is known as Adele syndrome. Although in the International ...
18-12-2025
Mysterious Indochina: 100 years ago
The Indochina Peninsula, located in southeast Asia, is a favorite place for tourists all over the world. Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, ...
18-12-2025
The story of the life and death of General Karbysheva, which ...
General Dmitry Karbyshev — one of the Soviet commanders who performed his duty to the end. This man was captured in the battle, ...
18-12-2025
Why did the" sun King " Louis XIV disgust women
King Louis XIV of France, whom the courtiers called the "Sun King", is a very popular person in literature and cinema. We know this ...
17-12-2025
Photo of Auschwitz in color: so even worse
The death of over a million people in the death camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau) — a terrible page in the history of the ...
17-12-2025
"We will bury you!" and other mistakes in translation that ...
Sometimes much more depends on accurate and correct translation than just understanding the interlocutor. Below we will tell you ...
17-12-2025
If the chair Busby — the deadliest furniture on the planet?
In the world there are a lot of things covered mystical, sometimes macabre stories. Mirror, bringing misfortune, paintings, causing ...
16-12-2025
Saturnalia is a loose holiday of the ancient Romans, which ...
Many believe that winter holidays appeared together with Christianity. But this is not so — before Christmas appeared, another ...
16-12-2025
Mannequin named Cynthia doll, which was the envy of Marilyn ...
In 1932, American sculptor and designer Lester GABA created a mannequin that looked very similar to a living woman, and named it ...
16-12-2025
From serf to court supplier: the story of the “vodka ...
Smirnoff brand vodka is known all over the world. Many consider it Russian, drawing conclusions from the name. The famous British ...
16-12-2025
16 hoaxes that have been believed in for a very long time
Many people are interested in topics that science cannot explain. We like conspiracies and hoaxes. Throughout history, both ...