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18-06-2025
The medieval murderers, or what is actually the tale about ...
Folklore has always been giperplazirovannom a reflection of the reality in which they lived carriers. The story of the Wolf and ...
18-06-2025
Light the torch of freedom: how the advertising man Edward ...
Nowadays, a woman with a cigarette does not surprise anyone, but even at the beginning of the twentieth century it was unthinkable. ...
18-06-2025
25 photos that will change your perception of world history
When you read something about history, be it a memoir, a textbook or an article, your own unique idea of how it was develops in ...
18-06-2025
Why in the old days sailors categorically refused to take ...
For centuries, the profession of a navigator was considered one of the most dangerous. And where there is risk, there is always a ...
17-06-2025
Scientists have named the oldest name, and it is still in use
Have you ever wondered what is the oldest name on the planet? No, we don't mean Adam and Eve, which the Bible mentions. We are ...
17-06-2025
What the Trebuchet Can Do - The Throwing Weapon That Changed ...
When weapons were forged in forges and assembled in workshops rather than created in labs, humans learned to use gravity and ...
17-06-2025
"I loved him so much that I would have climbed Everest with a ...
What can a woman do for love? The story of the mad passion of Joyce McKinney, who hunted for her lover for many years, proves that ...
17-06-2025
Don't Celebrate 40 or You'll Be Left Without Luck: ...
No other date in a person's life is associated with as many superstitions as the 40th birthday. They say that this date should ...
17-06-2025
Beer, Mead, honey: the range of Soviet beer catalog 1950-ies
Today in conventional stores on the shelves you can see dozens of different Beers, but in the Soviet Union, the range of this ...
17-06-2025
Invulnerable Comandante: 10 most unusual assassination ...
If you believe the biographers of Fidel Castro, then the Cuban leader, for his long and eventful life, was attacked 637 times. It ...
17-06-2025
Colma is an American cemetery town that lives off the dead.
There are cities that exist entirely at the expense of tourists. The city of Colma, located near San Francisco, California, is not ...
17-06-2025
Why did the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes live in a barrel?
Diogenes of Sinope is one of the most famous ancient Greek philosophers. Few can explain the essence of his teaching, but almost ...
17-06-2025
How the world's first seismograph, Zhang Heng's, ...
It is known that a unique civilization has been developing on the territory of China for more than one millennium. The Chinese gave ...
16-06-2025
Historical facts that will make you take a different look at ...
When you start studying history at school, it seems that the construction of the pyramids and Cleopatra were a very long time ago ...
16-06-2025
The history of one monument, or how the British executed a ...
On the northeast coast of Great Britain is a small port city of Hartpool. This is a boring province where there is absolutely ...
16-06-2025
Scientists have deciphered a 17th-century letter written by a ...
For many years, scientists have been trying to decipher the message left by Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concesione. 340 years ...
16-06-2025
Bhangarh is a cursed ghost town in India where you can't ...
India is full of mystical places shrouded in eerie legends. The most famous of them is the abandoned city of Bhangarh in Rajasthan, ...
16-06-2025
Rare color shots from Tunisia at the turn of the 19th and ...
These colored postcards from the sunny streets of Tunisia were created using photochromy technology, in which monochrome images are ...
16-06-2025
The Allenstown Four Case: A Series of Murders That Took 40 ...
The American law enforcement system works differently from ours: investigators rarely give up on solving a case. There are ...
16-06-2025
10 inventions that appeared by pure chance
On May 14, 1878, the trademark "Vaseline"was patented. The well-known cosmetic and therapeutic agent was invented and patented by ...
15-06-2025
"Common villa", or How the toilet became an instrument of ...
The number of unique architectural monuments in St. Petersburg is amazing. And there are some stories connected with each of them. ...
15-06-2025
How Hollywood star Dolores Hart shook the foundations of the ...
We are used to the fact that world-class stars leave their careers at a very old age. They spend their whole lives basking in glory ...
15-06-2025
Supermarket, spam, electric guitar, and 7 other things that ...
The global economic crisis, which began on October 24, 1929 with the stock market crash in the United States and lasted for a long ...
15-06-2025
A Genius Who Fled from Fame: The Sad Story of Child Prodigy ...
William James Sidis is a name that once made headlines. He was called the greatest child prodigy of the 20th century: he began ...
14-06-2025
Horseshoes, Spoons and Light Bulbs: The Wildest Costumes of ...
Advertising has always been the engine of trade, and people realized this in ancient times. By the 19th century, the advertising ...
14-06-2025
Simple Muscovites of the 1950s through the eyes of an American
Thanks to the endless archives of LIFE magazine, we have a wonderful opportunity to go back in time and look into the eyes of our ...