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Mysterious Indochina: 100 years ago
15-12-2025
Conman Konstantin Korovko is the prototype of the underground ...
We all know very well that many famous writers took their characters from real life. Did so and Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, ...
15-12-2025
Chanel with the scent of Nazism: was the legendary fashion ...
Without a doubt, Coco Chanel was one of the most outstanding women of the 20th century. Throughout the world, this personality is ...
15-12-2025
The Life and Death of Louis Dominique Cartouche, the King of ...
In early 18th-century Paris, his name was whispered—Cartouche. For some, he was a daring robber and the leader of a desperate ...
14-12-2025
How to drink properly in a British pub: a guide for American ...
How is it right to drink with the British? What can and cannot be said to a drunken Scotsman in a kilt? How to spend time in a ...
14-12-2025
Prague defenestrations — a simple and effective way to ...
When something spoils, breaks or gets boring, we throw this thing away. In the Middle Ages, when life was treated more simply, ...
14-12-2025
How in ancient times women learned about pregnancy
Modern medicine offers many accurate ways to determine pregnancy at the earliest stages. But all these techniques have appeared ...
13-12-2025
Child labor in twentieth-century America: photographs of ...
After the American Civil War, the availability of natural resources, new inventions and a capacious market provoked a rapid ...
13-12-2025
East and West: Color photographs of Moscow and New York in 1969
In 1969, it was hard to imagine a more different life than in two major cities - New York and Moscow. The embodiment of capitalism ...
13-12-2025
Fear and disgust in Sumer, or What representatives of ancient ...
Almost all the holidays that exist today, in one way or another, are associated with ancient agricultural cults. Settlement and ...
13-12-2025
The tragic story of creating a random picture of a "Desperate ...
In the spring of 1942, photographer Russell Sorgi made a very rare and tragic shot, capturing the last moments of a stranger's ...
12-12-2025
Rostov triangle: why it is born more of maniacs
Since 1970‑ies in the neighboring cities of Rostov-on-don, Shakhty and Taganrog was sent to jail 37 serial killers, who killed ...
12-12-2025
22 archival photographs that may surprise you
History in photographs is often much more informative than long descriptions and reflections. This is simply a mute witness to an ...
12-12-2025
The story of the fatal beauty Maria Tarnovskaya, nicknamed ...
In 1910 in Venice tried a Russian noblewoman Maria Tarnovskaya, whom journalists called the "Bloody Countess". On account of this ...
12-12-2025
Favorite women General Secretary Brezhnev
Many biographers of Leonid Brezhnev write that the General Secretary of the CPSU have not experienced particularly warm feelings to ...
12-12-2025
The History of Ketchup: From Chinese Fish Sauce to an ...
Ketchup is one of the most popular sauces in the world, but its path to global fame was long and unexpected. Originating in China ...
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12-12-2025
What does the word "bydlo" mean and how did it ...
Today, the word "bydlo" sounds like an offensive term for rude and ignorant people. However, it originally had no ...
11-12-2025
The Golden cage: how the life of Russian tsarinas
In Imperial times women had no power over him. The sphere of influence of the peasant and the boyar wives was limited to raising ...
11-12-2025
20 photos from the secret Masonic party in 1972, from which ...
On December 12, 1972, Marie-Helene de Rothschild, a member of the most influential family among the world's nobility, arranged a ...
11-12-2025
The story of Henrietta Lacks, the woman who revolutionized ...
The story of Henrietta Lacks is a rare case of an ordinary woman's life changing the face of global medicine. She led a quiet ...
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 ...