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10 subjects who have received their colors not just

24-09-2024

10 subjects who have received their colors not just

You may not know but many things you see every day, have certain colors for very specific reasons. It's not just a whim or a matter ...

Ancient action movie: The incredible retreat of 10 thousand Greek mercenaries from Persia

24-09-2024

Ancient action movie: The incredible retreat of 10 thousand ...

One of the most interesting documents left by the ancient Greeks is a work called "The Anabasis of Cyrus", translated from the ...

Why in the Middle Ages the church called the fork a "diabolical invention"

24-09-2024

Why in the Middle Ages the church called the fork a ...

An ordinary dining fork has an impressive history with many interesting facts. It seems to us that these devices have always been ...

Stunning Sophia Loren during the filming of the movie " Millionaire»

24-09-2024

Stunning Sophia Loren during the filming of the movie " ...

The Millionaire is a 1960 British romantic comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers. Set ...

Take a cigar and take a quick photo: the secret of one of the most famous pictures of Churchill

24-09-2024

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 ...

Frank and daring Spain in the illustrations of the 1900s

24-09-2024

Frank and daring Spain in the illustrations of the 1900s

On a sultry summer day, Maite Zubiarre, a professor of Spanish at the University of California, Los Angeles, went into an antique ...

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

23-09-2024

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

The phrase "a picture instead of a thousand words" was coined by the American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. These ...

One Ilyich and three Stalinodars: four attempts to rename Moscow

23-09-2024

One Ilyich and three Stalinodars: four attempts to rename Moscow

Renaming cities, streets, parks, sidewalks was one of the main entertainments of the Soviet nomenclature. Thousands of toponyms ...

12 Interesting Historical Pics From “That’s History” That May Change Your Perspective On Things

23-09-2024

12 Interesting Historical Pics From “That’s History” ...

We must keep being interested in history. Even if we laughed it off, one of the most viral memes of this summer was quite poignant: ...

4 incredible cases of survival in desperate situations

23-09-2024

4 incredible cases of survival in desperate situations

None of us is immune from life-threatening emergencies. We will tell you about four terrible cases when people took advantage of a ...

"Churchill's Egg": why the British prime minister had to fly in a personal sarcophagus

23-09-2024

"Churchill's Egg": why the British prime minister had to fly ...

There are a lot of funny stories about Winston Churchill. Recall at least the story of how the most famous portrait of the British ...

Who cries on the famous painting by Edvard Munch

22-09-2024

Who cries on the famous painting by Edvard Munch

Great creative heritage of the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch painting "the Scream" is the most famous. She not only often ...

Crazy beauty techniques from the past that make the hair stand on end

22-09-2024

Crazy beauty techniques from the past that make the hair ...

Over time, ideas about female beauty have changed, and sometimes the words "beauty requires sacrifice" had the most literal ...

Incredibly rare historical footage that we will never forget

22-09-2024

Incredibly rare historical footage that we will never forget

Behind each photograph there is someone's story or even a whole life of a person with all the ups and downs, sorrows and joys. ...

How Londoners used masks to escape the Great Smog in the 1950s

21-09-2024

How Londoners used masks to escape the Great Smog in the 1950s

In December 1952, the British capital was covered with a thick layer of smog-the result of cold weather, windlessness and sulfurous ...

Directory fetish lingerie French company Diana Slip from the distant 1920-ies

21-09-2024

Directory fetish lingerie French company Diana Slip from the ...

Not vintage erotic photography from vintage catalog, which advertised fetishistic underwear late 1920-ies. A shot of this beauty is ...

Mussolini was a dictator both in life and in bed and constantly demanded sex

21-09-2024

Mussolini was a dictator both in life and in bed and ...

On April 28, 1945, Italian partisans shot the leader of the Italian fascists, Benito Mussolini. The same fate befell his mistress, ...

Even girls received initial military training in Soviet schools

21-09-2024

Even girls received initial military training in Soviet schools

In 1968, a new subject was introduced in Soviet schools — initial military training. Each educational institution was equipped ...

The story of Frank Costello, who became the prototype for the Godfather Don Vito Corleone

21-09-2024

The story of Frank Costello, who became the prototype for the ...

Frank Costello, the boss of the New York mafia, has been through a lot in his life. He was the subject of government ...

Luxury flight in the seventies on a Boeing 747

21-09-2024

Luxury flight in the seventies on a Boeing 747

Air travel has experienced its golden age. Once upon a time, planes had much more space, a stylish interior, and a brighter design. ...

Love and the bomb: how, because of problems in the family, a resident of Kiev almost killed 176 people

21-09-2024

Love and the bomb: how, because of problems in the family, a ...

On August 17, 1988, a Tu-154B plane with 176 people on board took off from Kiev to Kuibyshev (now Samara). Among them was ...

Why used to hunt on horseback in the forests, but today it is difficult to walk even on foot

21-09-2024

Why used to hunt on horseback in the forests, but today it is ...

In the old paintings we see that earlier in the forests they hunted in large companies and on horseback. At the same time, it all ...

Amazakhs are indigenous light—skinned Africans related to Armenians

21-09-2024

Amazakhs are indigenous light—skinned Africans related to ...

It is generally believed that the indigenous population of Africa are people with dark skin or, at least, very dark and ...

Intimate photos of the Rolling Stones, John Lennon and other stars by Michael Putland

21-09-2024

Intimate photos of the Rolling Stones, John Lennon and other ...

According to Michael Putland himself, he didn't have days off in the 70s. The renowned music photographer has been capturing rock ...

A collection of archival frames, each of which will tell its own story

21-09-2024

A collection of archival frames, each of which will tell its ...

Sometimes photos can tell much more than history textbooks. Such pictures from different countries and different time periods are ...

6 Most Ridiculous Accidents That Led to the Death of Past Kings

21-09-2024

6 Most Ridiculous Accidents That Led to the Death of Past Kings

It is not customary to give the Darwin Award retroactively, but many historical figures could have earned it. Kings, tsars, dukes ...