History

Did everyone wake up on Monday?

20-10-2024

Did everyone wake up on Monday?

Knocker-up or Knocker-upper is a forgotten profession in England and Ireland, which consisted in waking people up to work. It ...

Cannibals-the Cossacks in the steppes of Ukraine: horror of the XVIII century about a gang of cannibals Paul Macapure

20-10-2024

Cannibals-the Cossacks in the steppes of Ukraine: horror of ...

In 1927, the historian Mykola Gorban found in the Kharkiv historical archives of the documents of the investigation conducted in ...

30 unique views of old Paris

20-10-2024

30 unique views of old Paris

Paris is an amazing and magical city, with streets on both banks of the Seine. Its historical center has been developing for many ...

How the most expensive and magnificent funerals of famous people in history took place

20-10-2024

How the most expensive and magnificent funerals of famous ...

On November 15, 1982, the funeral of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev took place on Red Square. As at the farewell to his predecessors, ...

How the huge armies of the past relieved themselves

20-10-2024

How the huge armies of the past relieved themselves

In the history of mankind it is hardly possible to find a year when there was not a war somewhere. The armies of the past were huge ...

Polish Jews through the eyes of Alter Katzizne. Amazing pictures!

20-10-2024

Polish Jews through the eyes of Alter Katzizne. Amazing pictures!

There was a man with a funny name Alter Katzizne. He was a writer and playwright, and even a poet in some ways. A couple of his ...

Nuclear tourism in the USA, or How the nuclear test site became a tourist attraction

20-10-2024

Nuclear tourism in the USA, or How the nuclear test site ...

The American city of Las Vegas, located in the heart of the Mojave Desert, has been attracting gamblers and fans of enchanting ...

12 records that no one will ever break

19-10-2024

12 records that no one will ever break

It seems that since the Guinness Book of Records became popular in 1955, people are constantly trying to break other people's ...

Deadly bet: How to land a plane blindly and kill 70 people

19-10-2024

Deadly bet: How to land a plane blindly and kill 70 people

This tragedy occurred on October 20, 1986 when landing at Kuibyshev airport. A monstrous case. Probably, it has no analogues in ...

What's wrong with babies in old paintings

19-10-2024

What's wrong with babies in old paintings

Even if you are not interested in painting at all, you still noticed how strange children were portrayed several centuries ago. ...

Belle Starr: Queen of bandits of the Wild West

19-10-2024

Belle Starr: Queen of bandits of the Wild West

The bandits and the Wild West are almost synonymous. Shooting, cowboys, hats, revolvers — all this dangerous "world of men". But ...

Stars of the 80s: young, bright and unbridled

19-10-2024

Stars of the 80s: young, bright and unbridled

The 1980s were a truly revolutionary decade — in everything related to fashion, music, cinema, etc. Here are some candid (and ...

About the life of Francesca Viola, a woman who survived abduction, violence and changed the history of the country

18-10-2024

About the life of Francesca Viola, a woman who survived ...

The Sicilian Mafia has always been considered the most brutal and "immortal" criminal group in the world. It is not surprising that ...

Why is the devil depicted with horns and hooves

18-10-2024

Why is the devil depicted with horns and hooves

Devils are traditionally depicted with horns, hooves and tails. Sometimes a pig's piglet and wings are added, as well as thick fur ...

What first class looked like on cruise ships before the era of airplanes

17-10-2024

What first class looked like on cruise ships before the era ...

Before airplane travel became commonplace, cruise ships were the only way to travel vast distances. And if you had money, then ...

Retrofoto from the series "What the fuck?!"

17-10-2024

Retrofoto from the series "What the fuck?!"

Analyzing old archives, you can stumble upon something that involuntarily raises a natural question: "What the hell is this?!" ...

"You can't love on the phone": the dramatic fate of comedian Lucille Ball

17-10-2024

"You can't love on the phone": the dramatic fate of comedian ...

Lucille Ball was an iconic figure in the film industry and still remains on the list of the best comedy actresses of the twentieth ...

How Britain's trade with Russia influenced the history of Albion and the introduction of luxury fashion

17-10-2024

How Britain's trade with Russia influenced the history of ...

We are used to the fact that all the most advanced and high-quality products come to us from other countries. But this was not ...

Etzi's "Ice Man" and his story

17-10-2024

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 ...

15 rare photos showing free Soviet medicine in all its glory

17-10-2024

15 rare photos showing free Soviet medicine in all its glory

It is generally believed that medicine was one of the main indisputable achievements of the Soviet Union: citizens of the country ...

15 historical facts that allow you to look at time from a different angle

17-10-2024

15 historical facts that allow you to look at time from a ...

It would seem that execution using the guillotine is something from the very distant past. But it was canceled in the same year ...

Why breast of French Queen Marie Antoinette is remembered more than the person

17-10-2024

Why breast of French Queen Marie Antoinette is remembered ...

You will hardly remember how you looked the wife of the king of France Louis XVI Marie Antoinette, 18th century. But we can ...

For that, the last master of the knights Templar cursed the king of France, and how the curse has come true

16-10-2024

For that, the last master of the knights Templar cursed the ...

On January 21 1793, the French revolutionaries beheaded king Louis XVI of the Bourbon. Someone in the crowd shouted that the master ...

The adventures of the crazy hatter Boston Corbett, or How the castrate avenged the assassination of the president

16-10-2024

The adventures of the crazy hatter Boston Corbett, or How the ...

Many people remember the shot of the mafia nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who on November 24, 1963 took the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, ...

"Dancing plague" of the middle Ages — a deadly epidemic, the nature of which is still debated

15-10-2024

"Dancing plague" of the middle Ages — a deadly epidemic, ...

Among the many different epidemics, vukasinovich the population of Europe for the last thousand years, "the dancing plague" can be ...

The Leo Frank case: why Atlanta residents lynched a Jewish engineer

15-10-2024

The Leo Frank case: why Atlanta residents lynched a Jewish ...

Late in the evening of August 17, 1915, hundreds of Atlanta residents filled the streets of the small town of Milledgeville. They ...