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!["The Bomelius Case": Why Ivan the Terrible's Physician, Whom Even the Oprichniks Feared, Was Executed](/img/2025/the-bomelius-case-why-ivan/the-bomelius-case-why-ivan-540x310.jpg ""The Bomelius Case": Why Ivan the Terrible's Physician, Whom Even the Oprichniks Feared, Was Executed")
11-11-2025
How did the traditional Russian gesture inviting a drink appear
In our country, probably everyone knows what it means to click the index finger on the throat. For a country that relatively ...
11-11-2025
How students lived in China in the 1990s
Young, enthusiastic, and full of hope—that's how photographer Zhao Gang, a student at the Changchun Institute of Optics and ...
10-11-2025
Breakfast in bed: how was the first class of Air France ...
Recently in a network there was a rare series of photographs taken for advertising campaigns of the airline Air France in 1957. It ...
10-11-2025
Creepy ghost villages of Dagestan: photos and videos from drones
There are several abandoned ghost villages in the Republic of Dagestan-Gamsutl, Kahib and Koroda. The village of Gamsutl is located ...
10-11-2025
Ten scientific discoveries that happened by accident
In 1928, the English bacteriologist Alexander Fleming conducted a routine experiment to study the human body’s defense against ...
10-11-2025
The contrasts of Afghanistan: the end of the 1920-ies and the ...
Manicured gardens, majestic historic buildings and picturesque mountain ranges — these pictures cover a piece of history of ...
10-11-2025
What happens if a valuable museum exhibit is accidentally ...
Imagine that during a museum tour, you accidentally knock over a valuable exhibit, damaging it or even destroying it. Panic, shock, ...
10-11-2025
Abandoned tunnel under Naples, which became a crypt for cars
One hundred and fifty meters from the large Piazza del Plebiscito in the center of Naples, there is a door to a passage that ...
09-11-2025
Playful Marilyn Monroe has breakfast in bed
Marilyn Monroe knew how to be seductive even in the most prosaic situations, and the usual breakfast in bed is no exception. Look ...
09-11-2025
The scientist confirmed that the legendary execution of the ...
Stories about medieval executions and torture are very popular today. Some of them are quite real, others are questioned. One of ...
09-11-2025
24 seductive picture style icons of the XX century
From time to time you should look back at least in order to understand how beautiful it was, how easy and casual sometimes we were ...
09-11-2025
Tsarist fun: how fun the last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II
Contemporaries say that Nicholas II was a very versatile man, active and with a lot of Hobbies. Despite his busy schedule, he found ...
09-11-2025
Why are piggy banks made in the shape of pigs?
We are surrounded by many things whose shape and design seem inexplicable. A piggy bank is a great example. Why make a piggy bank ...
09-11-2025
The blue color has its own legends
Blue paint used to be extracted from the semi-precious mineral lapis lazuli, it was expensive and very valuable, but then an ...
08-11-2025
Miracle in the Andes: How the dead saved the living
The case was in October 1972. The Uruguayan youth rugby team flew to Chile with friends and relatives, a total of 45 people with ...
08-11-2025
Why were cats so loved and revered in ancient Egypt?
The inhabitants of ancient Egypt treated many animals with great respect, but cats have always been especially important to them. ...
08-11-2025
A fight at a wedding — why was it mandatory in Russia
In the modern world, weddings with matchmaking, bride redemption, toastmaster and loaf have long been relegated to the background. ...
08-11-2025
The story of the robber Thomas Blood, pardoned by the king ...
British law has always been harsh on criminals, especially those who encroached on royal property. An attempt to rob the treasury ...
08-11-2025
Alcoholism and treatment with mercury: how women lived in the ...
In 1889, in Moscow, there were 111 public houses, 1898 — 68. By 1904, the number had increased to 73, and lived there more than a ...
08-11-2025
You can see right through the story: the first patients on X-ray
November 8, 1895 is considered the day of the discovery of X-rays by professor and physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. However, few people ...
08-11-2025
Mansa Musa is the richest man in history
The African supreme ruler Musa Keita I is considered the richest man of all time - richer than you can imagine. In the 14th ...
08-11-2025
The Story of Mineko Iwasaki, Japan's Most Famous Geisha
The dramatic film "Memoirs of a Geisha" directed by Rob Marshall is familiar to many. Far fewer have read Arthur ...
08-11-2025
Arab poetesses of Kaina: slaves who conquered the great Caliphs
In addition to decent women and prostitutes, for many centuries there was a third, special kind of ladies-courtesans. In Europe, ...
08-11-2025
40 photos of vintage vending machines that you didn't even ...
In this collection of photos you will see the oldest and most unusual vending machines in the world. Modern vending machines have ...
07-11-2025
35 strange and entertaining facts from the Weird History ...
The "Strange Story" account on Twitter recently turned ten years old, but, to the delight of 177 thousand subscribers, the flow of ...
07-11-2025
Take a cigar and take a quick photo: the secret of one of the ...
"The portrait of Winston Churchill changed my life. I understood that this was an important photo, but I could not even dream that ...