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What kind of “dead man's chest” is sung about in the ...
Everyone is well aware of the pirate song "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest" from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel ...
08-07-2025
What the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, the largest passenger ...
This 34-meter aircraft was in operation by American Airlines from 1949 to 1963. We offer you a look inside the Boeing 377 ...
08-07-2025
13 historical figures who were married to their relatives
In the culture of many countries, it is not customary to marry cousins or second cousins, and in some cases it is completely ...
08-07-2025
What Riga looked like 30 years ago
The Baltic States in the Soviet years were something like their "little abroad" — beautiful clean streets of Baltic cities, ...
08-07-2025
"Purification" of blood: the secret project of the Nazis to ...
As you know, the ideology of the Third Reich was based on the postulate of the superiority of the Aryan race over all others. The ...
08-07-2025
What American megacities looked like at the beginning of the ...
Dive into the atmosphere of the early 20th century and see what American megalopolises looked like at that time. In this selection ...
08-07-2025
"Fatal Hollywood drama": photographer took a real murder and ...
Recognition comes in different ways. Anthony Kalani Roberts did not know that one day 1973, will make him famous and provide a ...
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08-07-2025
"Shell Grotto" - one of the most mysterious ...
Margate is an ancient town located in Kent on the shores of the English Channel. Founded in the 13th century, it attracts tourists ...
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Great as obry: who were the Avars, zaprjagaevii Slavic women ...
In the summer of 558 residents of Constantinople were seen on the streets of horsemen dressed in armor of iron plates. The soldiers ...
07-07-2025
How did the expression “Olympic calm” come about?
When they say “Olympic calm,” they mean absolute equanimity. Many people associate this expression with the Olympic Games, ...
07-07-2025
"Ziegfeld Girls": the sexiest Broadway actresses of the 1920s
For modern connoisseurs of female beauty, black-and-white photos of the early twentieth century make an ambiguous impression: the ...
06-07-2025
1939: the last public execution in France by guillotine
Born in Germany in 1908, Eugene Weidman started stealing from a young age and, even as an adult, did not give up his criminal ...
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06-07-2025
The Story of the "Funny" Killer Nannie Doss, Who ...
The smiling older lady in the photo is Nannie Doss. Her family and friends described her as a sweet, good-natured person with a ...
06-07-2025
The story of a survivor Li Ching-Yun, who has lived more than ...
The resident of China Li Ching-Yun (Li Ching-Yun) died 6 may 1933, having lived a long and interesting life. He left behind 180 ...
06-07-2025
8 Nostalgic Action Movies From The 80s And 90s That ...
We have collected for you action films from the 80s and 90s that delighted viewers then and continue to delight them now. From ...
06-07-2025
History in color: photos of Russia in the early XX century, ...
Planetzero project deals with the restoration and colorization of old photos. This treatment can infuse archival photographs new ...
06-07-2025
The story of Sir William Stead, a fighter against pedophiles, ...
In Britain of the 19th century, girls who reached the age of 13 were recognized as adults. This was not at all surprising, because ...
06-07-2025
Not only Indians: which peoples of Russia scalped their enemies
From adventure novels and films, we know that the Indians of North America took scalps from their enemies, that is, they cut off ...
06-07-2025
Watching the participants of the contest "Miss universe" 50 years
They wink, correct clothes, make cute grimski, dress up, flirting with the audience, patiently waiting for the decision of the jury ...
05-07-2025
For anything other than Dating used condoms in the USSR
Ask any person who lived in the Soviet years, what is a "product number 2", and he'll tell you right away: the so-called at that ...
05-07-2025
24 interesting but obscure subject, which I had to ask in the ...
Interesting findings could be waiting for us anywhere. We often stumble upon them when dismantle old things when moving to a new ...
05-07-2025
The most famous of the epidemic in the history of mankind: ...
History teaches us that even the worst epidemic ever ends. And this, with the features of today can not but rejoice. But exactly ...
05-07-2025
Bath and laundry factories — brothels or "purity factories" ...
Blistered to bloody calluses, fingers that do not bend from arthritis, skin corroded by lye and tons of laundry. Such were the ...
05-07-2025
Having sex in the Middle Ages was very difficult
Forget about romance, about beautiful ladies in trouble and noble knights in shining armor on a white horse. Because it was very ...
05-07-2025
40 archive photos that may change your view of the past
If any science has benefited the most from the invention of photography, it is history. After all, it is photos that allow us to ...
05-07-2025
In 1986, Cleveland was attacked by ... balloons
In 1986, Cleveland, Ohio, proved that balloons, which we all consider a symbol of holidays and carnivals, can become a terrible ...