History
09-03-2025
Obscene fashion of a century ago - stockings rolled up under ...
Stockings rolled below the knees - the rebellious fashion of the 1920s! Girls longed for freedom, not wanting to wear uncomfortable ...
09-03-2025
The story of Nikolai Kobelkov, or How a Russian without arms ...
These days, the whole world admires the courage and vitality of speaker and motivator Nick Vujicic, but few people know that the ...
09-03-2025
Some of the craziest ways to show love from different ...
Have you ever committed follies for the sake of love? Maybe they were making some crazy gift or striking the imagination of the ...
08-03-2025
The London "gin Epidemic", or As drunkenness nearly destroyed ...
England was repeatedly devastated by the epidemic, therefore, plague, cholera and smallpox until the late 19th century was ...
08-03-2025
Another Gagarin
Today, 9 March, would have turned 87 years old our first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. We present images from his personal life to the ...
08-03-2025
The story of the adventurer Lola Montez, who almost became a ...
The XIX century can rightly be called the golden age of courtesans, impostors and adventurers. No era has given the world so many ...
08-03-2025
How they lived in the Ottoman Empire: crazy laws and customs ...
The Ottoman Empire, which existed from 1299 to 1922, was one of the most powerful and influential powers of its time. The majestic ...
08-03-2025
Maxim Dmitriev: photos of Tsarist Russia
We all know and love the photos of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. Color frames of tsarist Russia are a unique asset. But there is another ...
08-03-2025
Forest Fenn's Treasure: The Mysterious Modern Treasure ...
Stories about hidden treasures have captivated people's minds for centuries. The chance of finding a treasure is relatively ...
08-03-2025
From horses to " Ford»: how the Wild West was "domesticated"
By the beginning of the XX century, the Wild West as a cultural phenomenon ceased to exist. The river from the caravans of ...
08-03-2025
Pirate Love, or same-sex marriage under the " Jolly Roger»
We are sure that we know a lot about pirates. They drink rum, carry a parrot on their shoulders, creak a wooden leg, and rob sea ...
08-03-2025
8 shocking stories about people who almost all his life spent ...
In connection with the quarantine and the necessity most of the time to spend at home many people feel lonely. But in fact, the ...
07-03-2025
9 world's first photographs
Almost 200 years ago, Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niepce smeared a thin layer of asphalt on a metal plate and exposed it to the sun ...
07-03-2025
Hirosimites – amazing artifacts created by a nuclear explosion
The nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a terrible tragedy of all mankind. The consequences of a ...
07-03-2025
15 rare colored photos of Charlie Chaplin made in the ...
On 16 April 1889 in London in a family of actors pop was born Charles Spencer Chaplin. Sir "Charlie" Chaplin — British comic ...
07-03-2025
Young Greta Garbo and the lion - how the legendary photo appeared
Hollywood has been attracting ambitious and assertive people who dream of fame, money and self-realization for more than a century. ...
07-03-2025
The weapons of the polar samurai: what the formidable Chukchi ...
Today, most of us Chukchi evoke a strong association with the hero of the joke — simple and harmless. But 150-200 years ago, ...
07-03-2025
The most iconic historical footage is now in color
Black-and-white images give the false impression that the events depicted on them took place hundreds of years earlier than they ...
07-03-2025
Old postcard for March 8
Greeting card for March 8 — is another story. We collected the card, cut out their figures and made an application that was ...
07-03-2025
"Girl phantom" from Krasnoyarsk: the mystery of the photos ...
In 2015, the Krasnoyarsk regional Museum has received a request to photograph the sights of Krasnoyarsk, made during the reign of ...
06-03-2025
Wittenoom - Australia's Forbidden City Where the Air Can Kill
Australia is often called one of the most extreme places on the planet. This reputation is due to the abundance of dangerous ...
06-03-2025
About freaks and people: indecent pictures of Diana Arbus
Why did a successful girl from a rich Jewish family of the Nemerovs photograph the poor and the foolish? She showed American ...
06-03-2025
Children of the 90s: the artist displays in his works the ...
Those whose childhood fell on the dashing nineties, I remember well the first video games to magazines. Exciting shooting and ...
06-03-2025
Picnic on the Pyramids: tourists in Giza during the British ...
In the July heat, Egypt was finally opened to Russians: Vladimir Putin canceled the decree of 2015 that banned charter flights to ...
06-03-2025
Types of Pre-revolutionary Russia
Since the 60s of the nineteenth century, several photographers from Moscow and St. Petersburg have worked on creating a ...
06-03-2025
Robert Doisneau — the man who has sung Paris photos
Robert Doisneau (FR. Robert Doisneau 14 April 1912 — 1 April 1994) was a French photographer, master of French humanist ...