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!["Thimblerig": the noble origins of Russia's most criminal game](/img/2025/thimblerig-the-noble/thimblerig-the-noble-540x310.jpg ""Thimblerig": the noble origins of Russia's most criminal game")
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23-01-2025
Why did the inhabitants of medieval Venice organize mass ...
Venice is a beautiful ancient city built in a sea lagoon. Its main feature is its numerous canals topped with picturesque bridges. ...
22-01-2025
On a snow-white yacht: 20 vintage photos of Monroe, Hepburn ...
These cute black and white photos were taken many years ago, but they fully convey the charm (and some recklessness!) stars of the ...
22-01-2025
Why Hitler had a moustache brush and where mustard gas
Mustache brush appeared in the late 19th century in the United States and for a couple of decades, the fashion has spread all over ...
22-01-2025
Magazine "Ogonek": illustrations of Soviet life
Happy people are open, calm smiles and bright eyes, confident about the future, ready to take on the day. You look exactly like us ...
22-01-2025
The hottest babes of the 70s
The seventies of the last century were a real heyday of style, fashion and cinema, and also an era when unforgettable beauties ...
21-01-2025
10 revolutionary ideas of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci lived at the turn of the XV and XVI centuries, but the feeling that he came back from the future. Many of his ...
21-01-2025
The ridiculous death of the King of Sweden, who was killed by ...
Swedish King Adolf Fredrik came to the throne in 1751 thanks to the Russian Empress Elizabeth, but never became an outstanding ...
20-01-2025
10 Pics That Are Likely To Infect You With Happiness
When you’re happy, everything seems better: the sun feels brighter, the food tastes nicer, and even that one neighbor is less ...
20-01-2025
Don't tell social workers: the harsh life of the kids of the past
In this post we will talk about those times, when the concept of "care for children" had a completely different meaning than now. ...
20-01-2025
Why didn't women in Rus' cut their hair?
Since ancient times, women in Rus' have been adorned with long braids that were never cut. Only at the beginning of the 20th ...
20-01-2025
Like booze Baker saved from the Titanic, and many passengers ...
Drunk man does not always right. What can I say — sometimes even illogical. Usually this creates problems for him and others, but ...
20-01-2025
Color photos of popular tourist destinations, taken more than ...
These lovely photos show looked like the main tourist places of the world at a time when colour photography was just starting to ...
20-01-2025
Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty
Students, workers, collective farmers. From the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova… They are all very ...
19-01-2025
What did Europeans eat in the Middle Ages and why we can envy ...
Many believe that the Middle Ages is a dark and dangerous time in which people did not live, but survived. Mankind was decimated by ...
19-01-2025
What 100 years of" improvement " of pedigreed dogs have led to
The age of breeding" improvements " of pure breeds has turned once healthy dogs into deformed animals. There is an opinion that ...
19-01-2025
How did ancient hetaeras live and who wrote them textbooks on ...
There are many legends about the ancient Greek hetaeras. These controversial ladies are no less famous than ancient gods and ...
19-01-2025
The hippie camp Taylor camp — a utopian place with no ...
Many believe that if Heaven on earth exists, it certainly is on the Hawaiian Islands. That is why it was built here in the late ...
19-01-2025
13 Nostalgic Paintings Of This Romanian Artist’s Childhood ...
f you grew up in the 90s in Eastern Europe, this Romanian artist has a treat for you!
19-01-2025
Top 5 most unusual Railways of Switzerland
At the end of the XIX century on the "roof of Europe", in the Alps, became like mushrooms after the rain appeared the mountain ...
19-01-2025
Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the ...
No matter what, life always goes on. The new state regime can pursue a policy that many suffer from, but at the same time the ...
19-01-2025
22 photos from the 1990s that won't leave you indifferent
Remember the roaring 90s with our new selection of photos! From the fashion trends of the day to the iconic people of their day, ...
19-01-2025
How medieval pranksters played tricks on people — ...
The word «prank» appeared in our lexicon in the Internet era. But the practical jokes on people themselves, which lead ...
18-01-2025
Mystical agricultural Inca terraces of Moray
List of spectacular and fascinating ruins of the Inca civilization without a doubt you can make the Moray archaeological site in ...
18-01-2025
Retro photo: From the life of Lilliputians
Discover the pages of show business history with our unique selection of archival photographs reflecting the role of Lilliputians ...
18-01-2025
20 unique photos with greetings from the past
Photographs are a time machine on which you can go back several years or even centuries. And the older they get, the more valuable ...
18-01-2025
Pizza, matryoshka and 6 other famous things invented not ...
Quite often it happens that if people use something for a long time, they begin to consider it part of their culture. For example, ...