History
28.05.25
Vietnam 1915 in color photos
27-05-2025
Eunuchs of the Sultan's court: a brilliant career in exchange ...
In the Middle Ages, in the countries of the East, a slave, having demonstrated wisdom and loyalty to the ruler, could become one of ...
27-05-2025
Magyar poisoner of Nagyrev
In the early XX century in the Hungarian village Nagyrev formed a sort of killer syndicate consisting exclusively of women. From ...
27-05-2025
Himalayan Lake Roopkund is a cemetery of 500 people, which ...
People have been talking about the existence of a mysterious Skeleton Lake in the Himalayas for hundreds of years. The shores of ...
27-05-2025
Women's Armor: Fantasy and reality of breast tucks
A warrior girl with such tuck-ups on (and for) her chest on a plate armor is a familiar picture, isn't it? Fantasy artists have ...
27-05-2025
Who are the chaperones and what did the women of this ...
Fans of old English novels have probably encountered such a concept as a "companion" on their pages more than once. These women are ...
26-05-2025
Monuments of the socialist era from the Park-Museum "memento" ...
Park "memento" on the outskirts of Budapest is a Museum under the open sky, which contains sculptures of the time of socialism in ...
26-05-2025
See history in colors: 30 colored archive photos from ...
Parisian Sebastian de Oliveira (Sébastien de Oliveira) is a photographer and computer graphics specialist. And he is also a big ...
26-05-2025
5 dishes that hated Soviet children
In the Soviet kitchen was such popular recipes that many adults still remember with a shudder.
25-05-2025
Scary Hunt: the most famous witches of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages were a very difficult time for women. Any passerby could accuse the girl of witchcraft, and most often empty words ...
25-05-2025
What is the oldest male profession and why its name has ...
Everyone knows which female profession is considered the oldest. At the same time, not everyone knows about the oldest men's. ...
25-05-2025
Who are the Falashes, or was A. S. Pushkin a Jew
Everyone knows that the ancestors of the great Russian poet A. S. Pushkin were Araps — this is how in the old days in Russia ...
25-05-2025
Salt, feathers, shells: the most unusual money in the history ...
There were times when any money was big, even the smallest. This is far from an allegory — history knows enough examples when ...
25-05-2025
But women's heels has nothing to do with who is actually in ...
In the past, the word pussy had a completely different meaning. It is not meant a man who's mistreating his wife, and belonged to ...
24-05-2025
The everyday life of the" Orleans Saltychikha " Delphine ...
Since school, we know the story of the landowner Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova, nicknamed "Saltychikha", who tortured and killed her ...
24-05-2025
What was Iraq like before the war and sanctions
Iraq has been living in a state of almost incessant conflict and under international sanctions since 1980, when the war in ...
24-05-2025
10 unusual theories that change the perspective on world history
There are people who believe that any historical event — it is a carefully planned action with a purpose and a part of a ...
24-05-2025
"Fence art" of the ancients: archaeologists regularly find ...
Many believe that offensive inscriptions on walls and fences are a sad sign of our era associated with the decline of morals. But ...
23-05-2025
Anna and the King - how a British feminist lived in the harem ...
Anna Leonwens is one of the most interesting ladies of the Victorian era. An adventurer, suffragette and traveler, Anna spent her ...
23-05-2025
From Paleolithic Venus to the Kardashians: how the fashion ...
The canons of beauty are a very dynamic thing. And if at the dawn of civilization, the female breast was just a "functional" ...
23-05-2025
Dangerous prank Francois Rabelais, or How to get to Paris for ...
François Rabelais was considered one of the most educated people of the 16th century. It is difficult to name a case in which this ...
23-05-2025
20 stories of the appearance of scars in Russian and foreign ...
Every scar has its own story. The marks may remind of childhood adventures, as well as riots or sad events of adult life, but they ...
22-05-2025
Victorian era burlesque dancers
Burlesque is not only Dita Von Teese in a huge martini glass. Burlesque dancers already existed in the mid-19th century, although ...
22-05-2025
The scientist caught Shakespeare in incompetence in matters ...
Everyone who is familiar with the work of William Shakespeare has noticed how often the great playwright kills his heroes. In ...
22-05-2025
Caspian Fort Boyar - the place where Victory was forged, and ...
In the open sea, just 2.5 km from the city of Kaspiysk, there is an abandoned bastion, which locals call "Dagestani Fort ...
22-05-2025
Romantic story of 16-year-old drowned from Paris
Dummy for practicing skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation sign of tens of thousands medical students and rescuers. However, few ...
22-05-2025
Unfriend and ban: how could one "remove it" before there were ...
In social networks it is very easy to make friends: want — friended by sick — raspandita with him. A slang expression for "hi", ...