History
10.12.25
Etzi's "Ice Man" and his story
09-12-2025
Old Japan of the second half of the 19th century in ...
These hand-painted photographs of old Japan teach a history lesson about how life went on there in the Land of the Rising Sun at ...
09-12-2025
The adventures of a con man Roman medoks, the prototype of ...
The basis of almost all classical works based on real cases. The author had to do was skip the story through the prism of their ...
09-12-2025
"Bread and water are our food": what and how they ate in ...
Today we can go to the supermarket or to the market and choose any products according to our taste and desire. The situation was ...
09-12-2025
How the white flag became a symbol of an invitation to ...
Today, the white flag is perceived as a sign of surrender or a request for negotiations. But when and why did a simple white cloth ...
08-12-2025
Culinism: How the World's Most Disgusting Polygamy ...
At first glance, a phenomenon known as kulinism seems like a distant relic—an outdated tradition that grew up in the depths of a ...
08-12-2025
December 9, 1961: the day when 18 people came to the Beatles ...
The Liverpool foursome had to play for an audience that barely outnumbered them. See also: The tragic life story of Stuart ...
08-12-2025
20 photos from the days of prohibition
Prohibition started in 1920, when the so-called the Volstead act came into force. The 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...
08-12-2025
Who are the hay girls and what tasks did they perform in the ...
In the estates of landlords under serfdom, servants of various profiles lived and worked. It was believed that the more servants a ...
08-12-2025
Red thread on the wrist. Where did it come from and what does ...
Madonna, Johnny Depp, Annie Lorak, Lady Gaga, Olga Buzova, Philip Kirkorov, Leonardo DiCaprio, what unites these stars of domestic ...
08-12-2025
One day on a California beach in August 1970
These wonderful black-and-white shots were taken in August 1970, when photographer Lance Nix was relaxing on Mission Bay Beach ...
08-12-2025
Why in the old days the husband and wife slept separately and ...
It is well known that a person sleeps a third of his life. It is not surprising that so many customs are associated with sleep. ...
08-12-2025
The tragic life of bearded women Annie Jones, who was a real lady
Even in the middle of the XX century, when people came close to solving the mystery of the atom and was looking for ways to reach ...
![The Mad Marquis Henry Cyril Paget and his "Theatre of Joy"](/img/2025/the-mad-marquis-henry/the-mad-marquis-henry-170x170.jpg "The Mad Marquis Henry Cyril Paget and his "Theatre of Joy"")
07-12-2025
The Mad Marquis Henry Cyril Paget and his "Theatre of ...
This British aristocrat made history not for wars or politics, but for his unbridled passion for the stage, luxury, and ...
07-12-2025
Weegee is a restless photographer who has been everywhere and ...
Old photos always arouse interest. But there are just old photos, and there are photos taken by Weegee. This is something very ...
07-12-2025
Who put Bella in the Witch's Elm? Britain's Most Mysterious Crime
When it comes to unsolved crimes, they usually mean different things. In addition to the identity of the attacker, there may be an ...
06-12-2025
The story of Vietnam's youngest photojournalist - 12-year-old ...
The frame below, where the boy takes pictures during military operations, is not staged at all. The picture was taken on February ...
06-12-2025
Why did man start shoeing horses?
For thousands of years in the wild, horses survived without shoes. Moreover, even domesticated animals ran without these ...
06-12-2025
"The fool from Sadovaya" Annushka from the novel "The Master ...
It is well known that most literary heroes have real prototypes. And this applies not only to the main characters, but also to ...
06-12-2025
The kiss of shame and the carriage Masturbation: intimate ...
Our ancestors often cited as an example of how innocent and chaste people who have no sense of depravity and sin. But in fact, they ...
05-12-2025
Who were the mysterious maenads - women who dedicated their ...
These women were called bacchantes by the Romans, and maenads by the Greeks. In ancient times, when women were in the shadow of ...
05-12-2025
10 photos of the Great Smog in London
On December 5, 1952, one of the most terrible environmental events in the history of England took place. "Great Smog" (Eng. Great ...
05-12-2025
What was the fate of the real prototypes of children's fairy ...
On October 14, 1926, Alan Milne's book "Winnie the pOoh" was published in the London publishing house Methuen & Co. Children, ...
05-12-2025
Ms. Zheng: as a prostitute became Queen of Chinese pirates
The sea is still, you are a woman or a man, if you can hold in their hands an army of 70,000. Chinese Chin si could — she started ...
04-12-2025
Rare color photographs of the Russian Empire at the beginning ...
The cycle of color photographs captured in the distant 1911. Where one hundred years ago, took a color? How was it done? Indeed, ...
04-12-2025
Cans, ice cream dish, gangs and 11 types of dishes of Soviet ...
Admit it, was served at the New year, the traditional basin Olivier in a carved crystal vase? If so, then surely many other things ...
04-12-2025
Derby in diapers: how were the retro races of crawling babies
This is very questionable from an ethical point of view, but no less popular event was held annually as part of the fair in ...