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11-04-2025
"The space is calling everyone! And call. How vechnyy Zov" ...
12 April 1961 booster "R‑7", created at the factory "Progress" in Kuibyshev (now Samara), launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into ...
11-04-2025
The world's oldest serial killer: how a 90-year-old "Bataan ...
The phrase "the oldest serial killer in history" evokes associations with the scruffy cannibal grandfather from Lovecraft's short ...
11-04-2025
Prostitutes of Japan of the XIX century
In the Land of the Rising Sun, since ancient times, there have been many professional courtesans-geisha, and prostitutes-oiran, ...
11-04-2025
20 photos of celebrities of the twentieth century on motorcycles
Motorcycles have long been a kind of symbol of freedom and risky adventures, so it is not surprising that many famous creative ...
10-04-2025
10 films inspired by works of art
When it comes to movies, everyone has a couple of favorite movies. Someone likes the work of a certain director, and someone loves ...
10-04-2025
Obscene traditions of antiquity that can confuse even a ...
For some reason, we believe that before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, sex was considered something obscene and those who were ...
10-04-2025
Detective in ancient Roman style, or How Emperor Tiberius ...
In ancient Rome there was no such thing as an investigator or detective. Any crime was investigated in court and, as a rule, the ...
10-04-2025
Why in Russia the meeting with the funeral was a good sign
Today, having met the funeral, few people feel positive emotions. Many even believe that this event can cause trouble and therefore ...
10-04-2025
Late love of Marshal Tolbukhin and... Faina Ranevskaya
And it all started as the old joke. Remember: the restaurant falls out drunk, and he saw a man in a Golden cap, and trousers with ...
09-04-2025
Daring and dangerous: 20 vintage photo Japanese girls SUKEBAN
It is difficult to imagine, but it is a fact in the second half of the XX century on the streets of Japan crime flourished, and ...
09-04-2025
Nicholas II and Alexandra: the story of true love until the ...
We know that the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, was madly in love with his wife Alexandra, which was not often the case among ...
09-04-2025
How did the young ladies from the institutes of noble maidens ...
On May 5, 1764, 257 years ago, the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens was founded in St. Petersburg. Life in such institutions, ...
09-04-2025
Why did they start making tattoos with numbers in Auschwitz: ...
Many people know that prisoners of Nazi concentration camps had a tattoo with a number on their arm. But few people know that this ...
09-04-2025
The story of Theodor Kittelsen, the most mysterious and ...
The whole world knows the graphic artist and illustrator Theodor Kittelsen from his drawings of mythological characters and ...
09-04-2025
The crazy life story of John McAfee, billionaire and creator ...
On June 23, 2021, a prisoner named John McAfee hanged himself in his cell in a Spanish prison. The news of his death was published ...
09-04-2025
A symbol of peace with a bloody past: why Nelson Mandela ...
For modern society, Nelson Mandela is an example of a man who, against all odds, defeated evil and achieved justice. The smiling ...
09-04-2025
The world's most beautiful women, fake Circassian, who ...
The beauty of the Circassian women in the 19th century were considered legendary throughout the world. Said that the Circassian ...
08-04-2025
Spies in skirts: female intelligence officers whose exploits ...
In the history of domestic intelligence, there are many women whose exploits are classified even after many years. But their fates ...
08-04-2025
Why 3 a.m. was considered the most dangerous time by our ...
Modern people are sure that all devilry begins exactly at midnight and this time is considered the most mystical and dangerous. But ...
08-04-2025
Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers
Not so long ago we had a post about color photographs of Italy in 1938 (see the link below). An endless series of banners, ...
08-04-2025
"Emancipation of the servants": how did the master's servants ...
The beginning of the XX century is a very vague time. The lower classes, as Comrade Lenin later wrote, could no longer, while the ...
08-04-2025
Why do women give birth lying down and what does King Louis ...
In most cases, women give birth lying down. Many are sure that this is the most optimal position for a woman in labor and a child. ...
08-04-2025
Careening — the worst punishment sailors of the past
Today the term is found only in the epic sagas of the mariners. Ship, cleaving the sea surface, salt spray, endless horizon and the ...
08-04-2025
Gemini Project. Truth or fiction?
The Gemini Project is one of the horrific crimes of Nazi Germany. It is so inhuman that for a long time it was considered only a ...
08-04-2025
How to entertain yourself if you find yourself in the Middle ...
The life of the average medieval European was short, dangerous and not rich. However, in those days people also had their own small ...
08-04-2025
What 15 of the Most Amazing Crowns in History Look Like
Crowns are not just decorations, but symbols of power, authority and cultural heritage. They shine not only with jewelry, but also ...