History
11-06-2025
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev on vacation and not only
It's no secret that for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, women, hunting, hockey and cars were the outlets. Brezhnev became the first Soviet ...
10-06-2025
14 moments in the history of sports that changed the world
There are great moments in the history of sports that have determined the course of not only sporting events, but also the history ...
10-06-2025
Two Da Vinci's "Giocondes", a newly made face of the sphinx ...
After all, Socrates was an intelligent man. "I know I don't know anything"—how true that is. You can live for a thousand years, ...
10-06-2025
What does the legend of a bicycle embedded in a tree hide?
A bicycle in a tree has long been a landmark of Vashon Island. But the sentimental legend that it belonged to a guy who was ...
10-06-2025
Not only the kitchen, children and the church: the whole ...
Cinema and literature have formed for us a certain image of a medieval city-dark, dirty, filled with suspicious personalities and ...
09-06-2025
Infidelity, third floor and singing briefs: sexual ...
India — the country that gave us a unique guide to sexual practices. There is no doubt that these people know a lot about ...
09-06-2025
Enemy of the state № 1: Jacques Mesrine — the robber, to ...
About Jacques mesrine written many books and filmed several movies. In France, it is the way it is today is contradictory and ...
09-06-2025
Fatal passion of John Kerry's murder, make the picture a ...
English painter John Kerry (1883-1914) is not among the most recognized masters of the world and even the UK. The most expensive of ...
09-06-2025
Bathing the Red Chairman: The story of Mao Zedong's ...
The story of how the Great Helmsman in his eighth decade struggled with nature. The creator of Communist China, Mao Zedong, is an ...
08-06-2025
Soviet caricature of the family theme
Overage loafers sitting on the neck of their industrious old parents, old old men who marry young persons, bewilderment of the ...
08-06-2025
The Patty Cannon Gang: 20 Years of Murder, Kidnapping, and ...
In the early 1800s, the Delaware-Maryland border was home to one of the most brutal gangs in American history. The Patty Cannon ...
08-06-2025
What the girls who posed for the most famous pin-up posters ...
We all know what a pin-up is, and often enjoy looking at the standards of female beauty of the mid-XX century. As behind any work ...
08-06-2025
How did the word “idiot” appear and what meaning was put ...
Nowadays, the word “idiot” has only two interpretations. This is either a person suffering from dementia, or an ignorant, ...
07-06-2025
Geisha without kimono
The unidentified Japanese photographer who took these pictures in the 1900s must have preferred to admire geishas, free from the ...
07-06-2025
The story of Philip Ashton, who chose life on a desert island ...
Today, even children know that the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk became the prototype of the protagonist of Daniel Defoe's ...
07-06-2025
Was the country called Honduras, or Where did such a strange ...
The expression "The wrong country was called Honduras" is familiar to everyone. It is used when they want to emphasize ...
07-06-2025
Sex symbols of the 50s, or what the standard of female beauty ...
This period in the history of fashion and beauty is considered the most feminine. Excessive thinness was not in trend then. Full ...
07-06-2025
How a simple Mexican woman, Nestor Salgado, declared war on ...
Modern Mexico is a battleground between the drug mafia and citizens tired of the lawlessness of bandits. Corruption at all levels ...
06-06-2025
Rare color photos of pre-war Germany
Long before Germany was destroyed the First and Second world wars, it was a country of peaceful beauty, Gothic splendour and ...
06-06-2025
The most frightening, unusual and sinister uniform in history
The uniform serves different purposes. Most often, it is used by the military or members of an organization to create an impression ...
06-06-2025
The 100 km long Maya road is a miracle of ancient engineering
Of all the ancient civilizations, the culture of the Maya Indians remains the most interesting and mysterious. Much of the heritage ...
06-06-2025
The world history of contraception: cobwebs, elephant dung ...
In the Middle Ages, premature female death was most often associated with complications during childbirth. Newborns died even more ...
05-06-2025
Nazi Germany in color photos by Hugo Jaeger, Hitler's ...
These color photographs were taken by Hugo Jäger, Adolf Hitler's former personal photographer. He traveled with the future Nazi ...
05-06-2025
Why do men wear watches on their left hand
Traditionally, men wear watches on their left hand. They say that the rules of etiquette require this, but no one can explain what ...
05-06-2025
5 facts from the life of Gogol, which are not accepted to ...
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol is not just a classic, but the first major Russian prose writer, who was considered his teacher by many ...
05-06-2025
What was the real fate of the bride from Vasily Pukarev's ...
The traditional Academic exhibition held in 1863 in St. Petersburg, has become unlike others. It could even be called a sensation, ...