History
22-01-2023
Haile Selassie — the last Emperor of Ethiopia, descendant ...
Haile Selassie I (translated as his name means might, the power of the Trinity) was first the regent of the country, and since 1930 ...
20-01-2023
A 3,000-year-old statue of Pharaoh Ramses II has been found ...
A group of archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have discovered fragments of a statue in Cairo that supposedly depicts Pharaoh ...
20-01-2023
7 paintings hiding other works of art: from Malevich's Black ...
Have you ever wondered how famous painters created their main canvases? In a burst of inspiration, did you write everything in a ...
19-01-2023
Who's Who: Legendary Fashion Photographers of the 20th Century
Today, August 19th is World Photography Day. On this occasion, we decided to tell you about legendary fashion photographers. They ...
19-01-2023
It's a fact: Google Images was created thanks to Jennifer Lopez
On the air - our new column "This is a fact", in which we will share various truths and historical information from the world of ...
17-01-2023
Turkey's first female photographer and her extravagant models
Mariam Shahinyan is considered to be the first woman in Turkey who became professionally engaged in photography. An Armenian ...
17-01-2023
How to change China for a hundred years
It is always interesting to see evidence of superiority of a person or, on the contrary, the evidence of his inability to cope with ...
17-01-2023
Who supports Stalin in his native Georgia in 2017
64 years have passed since the death of Joseph Stalin. In his homeland, Georgia, following Ukraine and the Baltic states in 2011, ...
16-01-2023
The history of the Southern Cultures Park in Adler, which ...
The Southern Cultures Park in Adler, Sochi, may not be as huge and popular as the Arboretum in greater Sochi, but it managed to get ...
16-01-2023
A Jewish photographer captured life in a ghetto in occupied ...
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, fenced-off ghettos for Jews were created in the largest cities of the country. Henrik ...
15-01-2023
While the USSR was at war with the fascists: color photos of ...
Los Angeles in the early 1940s, despite the tense situation in the world due to World War II, still remained a glamorous, bright ...
14-01-2023
Black tourism: traveling through the darkest pages of history
Recently, the so-called black tourism has been of increasing interest to travelers. Having had enough of the usual sights, people ...
14-01-2023
It's as if humanity has left the Earth: 31 years ago there ...
Pripyat was once a thriving city, where about 50,000 people lived. But on April 26, 1986, when a terrible accident occurred at one ...
12-01-2023
The second Coming: Ravon is preparing to conquer the Russian ...
With the onset of the economic crisis, the automotive market in Russia has taken several steps back. Now the lost positions are ...
12-01-2023
Moscow under a degree: the center of the capital through the ...
Do you know how a good excursion differs from a regular one? The good one is interrupted by pauses in which people can digest what ...
12-01-2023
What athletes looked like 100 years ago and what modern ...
Where did it all begin? Looking at retro photos with bodybuilding stars.
12-01-2023
Lost Paradise: Hippie Camp in Hawaii
Camp Taylor was located on the edge of the earth, in a tropical utopia, on the ocean, without rules, policies or bill payments. An ...
10-01-2023
A unique burial with a "dancing" skeleton has been discovered ...
An unusual find was found in the village of Ust-Ivanovka, Primorsky Krai. Archaeologists gave the skeleton the name "dancing" ...
10-01-2023
Queen guitarist Brian May posted unknown photos of Freddie ...
The guitarist of the legendary Queen band, 69-year-old Brian May, has released a collection of 300 photos from his personal archive ...
10-01-2023
Hurricane of 1904 — the deadliest in Moscow in 100 years
We have already written about the hurricane on May 29 and how to protect yourself from the elements. Many citizens in the last two ...
09-01-2023
Skeleton in the closet: secrets of the first ladies
Every woman has her own little secrets and weaknesses. However, their concealment becomes an especially delicate issue when the ...
07-01-2023
Photos from the First World War, banned by censorship
On June 28, 1914, the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was committed in Sarajevo by a Serbian student Gavrila ...
05-01-2023
4 tons of Nazi gold found on a sunken ship off the coast of ...
A group of British treasure hunters discovered a huge box of gold bars weighing 4 tons and worth 100 million pounds sterling ...
05-01-2023
37 years ago, the farewell to Vysotsky took place
On the night of July 25, 1980, Vladimir Vysotsky died in his apartment from acute heart failure. Just at that time, the XXII Summer ...
04-01-2023
900-year-old mummy of the "Polar Princess" was unearthed in ...
In the Obi basin, archaeologists found the mummy of the "Polar Princess" perfectly preserved in permafrost. This unique find is a ...
03-01-2023
"Woodstock" in 1969 in pictures of LIFE magazine
The most famous rock festival "Woodstock", which began on August 15, 1969 on one of the farms of the town of Bethel, New York, USA, ...